Verdicts by Practice Area: Product Liability
Slip and Fall—Ladder, Polk County, Paul Jones and Thomas Farrell, $1M Sought, Defense Verdict, 1/21/2011. Read More
double death Products Liability case when the judge found in her order that “the dangers associated with carbon monoxide poisoning are well known and Tennaco had no duty to re-warn.” The case set in the U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida involved two teenagers who were killed by carbon monoxide poisoning, after spending the night in their mini-van. Read More
Daniel Santaniello, Anthony Petrillo and Paul Jones, the defense team for Florida Pool Products, received a major win on November 2, 2006 for a one month product liability trial in Pinellas County. Wal-Mart and Florida Pool Products, Inc. were co-defendants in the trial of a 3 year old boy who was rectally impaled resulting in a colostomy on a dive stick that had been recalled by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Plaintiff asked the jury for $15 million in compensatory damages and further sought punitive damages in the amount of $32-40 million. The Jury found the family and others 85% at fault, resulting in a net verdict of $10,200 against our client and punitive damages of $120,000, well below a 7 figure Offer of Judgment. Read More