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Victim awarded $100 million in damages. A Delaware jury today awarded $25 million in compensatory and $75 million in punitive damages to Deborah Barba, finding Boston Scientific liable for several permanent and serious injuries caused by its Advantage Fit and Pinnacle transvaginal mesh (TVM) products.

With such immediate and resounding consequences, you’d think that medical devices would be scrutinized more than just about any manufactured product; subjected to test after test before being released for use in and on the public. But that’s just not the case.

During a press conference on Tuesday, May 19, 2015, National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) Administrator Mark Rosekind and U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced that Japan-based Takata Corp. has declared an estimated 33.8 million vehicles defective due to airbags that may explode with excessive force and potentially shoot metal shrapnel at passengers.

CBS Evening News interviewed attorney Kevin Dean, the firm’s automotive forensic technical advisor Bill Williams and our client Angelina Sujata. The interviews tell the story of how Kevin and Bill came to be the only known people, other than Takata, testing recalled airbags.

In light of all the recent recalls, including those for Takata airbags and GM ignition switches, there are a number of good reasons to take cars that are less than a decade old to the dealer once a year, even if it is just for a simple oil change.

ISS recognized Motley Rice for recovering the sixth highest aggregate amount for investors in U.S. securities fraud class actions.

Motley Rice transportation attorneys are reviewing the circumstances surrounding the fatal derailment of an Amtrak train on May 12, 2015, that killed eight passengers and seriously injured 140 more, with many others feared missing.

If BP can appeal some payments made through its Economic and Property Damages Settlement Agreement, then it only makes sense that claimants who are denied recovery would also have the right to appeal their decision.

On Friday, May 8, 2015, around 10 a.m., a single-engine Piper PA-32 crashed on interstate 285 at Peachtree Industrial Boulevard just north of Atlanta after taking off from DeKalb Peachtree Airport.

Shortly after midnight on April 7, 2015, a Cessna 414A carrying seven men returning from the NCAA Final Four championship game in Indianapolis crashed into a field approximately two miles east of the Central Illinois Regional Airport in Bloomington.