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Nearly $3 million awarded in KBR rape claim

November 23, 2009

A nearly $3 million arbitration award won by a former KBR employee who said she was raped in Iraq was applauded by Houston attorneys who represented her and a Humble woman suing the military contractor for negligence.

 

Tracy K. Barker, wife of a U.S. Army sergeant and the mother of five, was awarded $2.93 million in private arbitration proceedings in Houston this week. Barker, contacted Thursday at her home in North Carolina, declined to discuss the award.

 

“As far as the award as it stands, we can live with it,“ said Michael Conway, an Ohio attorney representing Barker. “We’re upset because KBR thinks they can just appeal this and keep it going, when it’s supposed to be binding arbitration.”

 

Read Article: Houston Chronicle

 

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Philip Morris ordered to pay $300 million to smoker

A Florida jury on Thursday ordered cigarette maker Philip Morris USA to pay $300 million in damages to a 61-year-old ex-smoker named Cindy Naugle who is wheelchair-bound by emphysema.

 

The Broward Circuit Court jury assessed $56.6 million in past and future medical expenses against the company, part of Altria Group Inc, as well as $244 million in punitive damages.

 

The verdict is the largest of the so-called Engle progeny cases that have been tried so far, both sides said.

 

Read Article: Reuters 

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Firefighters lawsuit officially settled as council approves deal

A 10-year-old lawsuit by firefighters over decades of miscalculated overtime pay was officially settled on Thursday when the Louisville Metro Council voted unanimously to approve the $45 million deal and give 834 firefighters the money they have been owed, dating back in some cases to 1985.

 

Left unsettled by the vote is how a $29.2 million chunk of the settlement will be paid — either financed through the sale of bonds, as Mayor Jerry Abramson’s administration would like, or paid in cash out of city reserves, as some members of the Metro Council are advocating.

 

That question won’t be answered until early next year.

But with its vote on Thursday, the council approved the amount and structure of the payments: $15.8 million in cash by Dec. 1; a $14.3 million payment by March 31, 2010; and a $14.9 million payment by July 15, 2010.

 

Read Article: Louisville Courier Journal

 

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Jury awards Phillipsburg man almost $6 million; he’s disabled when a tree limb falls on his car in Delaware Township, Hunterdon County

A Phillipsburg man was awarded nearly $6 million for injuries suffered when a large tree limb dropped onto their car here in 2006.

 

The damages pertain to Kenneth Matlock because he is permanently disabled and can no longer work as a truck driver, his career for more than 20 years. His wife, Vicky has recovered from her injuries.

 

The verdict is believed to be the largest in the history of Hunterdon County.

 

Attorneys John Dodig and Jason Daria, of the law firm Feldman, Shepherd, Wohlgelernter, Tanner, Weinstock & Dodig represented the Matlocks at the jury trial in Flemington which led to the verdict. Superior Court Judge Peter Buchsbaum conducted the trial, which ended Wednesday, Oct. 28.

 

Read Article: Hunterdon County Democrat

 

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Judge orders settlement meeting in Cintas case

A federal judge has ordered a meeting between Cintas Corp. and the widow of a former employee who is suing the company to try to settle her 2007 wrongful death lawsuit.

 

The order this week from U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul J. Cleary is a last attempt to settle the case before a jury trial would begin in April.

 

Amalia Diaz Torres is suing Cincinnati-based Cintas, claiming the company’s plant managers knew about — and even encouraged — the dangerous working practices that led to the death of her husband, Eleazar Torres-Gomez, in 2007.

 

Read Article: Boston Herald

 

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