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First of Thousands of Opioid Cases Top the 2019 Personal Injury Verdict List
This year's verdicts include a landmark suit in the fight against the opioid epidemic.
Johnson & Johnson again finds itself in the unenviable position atop our annual list of supersized personal injury verdicts. In previous years, J&J has fought multi-million-dollar claims that its talc-based products contained asbestos, causing lung cancer and mesothelioma after prolonged use. Now the health care giant is in the whopper verdict headlines again as the losing party in the first opioid case to go to trial. States, cities and counties have filed 2,700 cases nationwide, alleging that drug makers fueled the epidemic with misleading marketing about the benefits of opioid painkillers and the risks of addiction. Our 2019 list of top personal injury verdicts comes courtesy of Courtroom Video News, which provides thousands of hours of access to video of high-stakes civil litigation. Selection criteria included “... the amount awarded, the facts of the case, the parties and attorneys involved, and the potential broader impact of the verdict.†The list that follows includes links to news stories about each verdict. 2019 Case Summaries
Honorable Mention: $2.38 million asbestos ruling after appeal: Thomasina Fowler’s asbestos-related case against Union Carbide on behalf of her deceased husband was initially dismissed, but an appeals court reversed that decision.
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