Largest Nevada Verdict
In following up my last post on the Endoscopy trial, a jury has awarded a historic $500,000,000 -Five Hundred Million - punitive damage award. The original compensatory damage award was a combined $5,100,000 for both plaintiff's husband and wife for husband's contracting Hepatitis while a patient at the Endoscopy Clinic.
This verdict makes the last Nevada award against a pharmaceutical company pale at only $99,000,000 against Wyeth in 2005.
I predict, as set out in my first commentary on the trial, that appeals and post trial motions will be pending for some time.
Today's Las Vegas Review Journal set out many of the details of the trial including an initial offer to settle for $1,700,000 by plaintiffs; and one of the drug company is Israeli based. The award, says attorney Robert Eglet, is one of the largest in the United States.
