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Florida Appellate Court Affirms No Punitive Damages Against Assisted Living Facility

January 22, 2026

Dana Jones’s mother, Doscina Pendleton, was an elderly, terminally ill woman under hospice care, residing in the memory care unit of Truewood By Merrill (“Truewood”), an assisted living facility, from December 31, 2018 until she passed away on December 25, 2020. On the night of her[...]

Punitive Damages Awarded Against Pennsylvania Nursing Home Vacated On Appeal

July 21, 2025

Green Ridge Healthcare Group, LLC d/b/a Green Ridge Care Center and Saber Healthcare Group, LLP appealed from the $3,035,235.00 judgment (which included $2,700,000 in punitive damages) that was entered in favor of Mildred Bernavage, a 90-year-old resident of the nursing home who had suffered a fract[...]

Missouri Appellate Court Reduces $4.69 Billion Talc Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson By One-Half

June 30, 2020

The Talc Allegations The twenty-two plaintiffs alleged that they developed ovarian cancer after continued use of two of the defendants’ talc products: Johnson’s Baby Powder (“Johnson’s Baby Powder”) and Shower to Shower, including any variation, modification, or extension such as Shower to[...]

Pennsylvania House Of Representatives Rejects Proposal To Limit Punitive Damages Against Nursing Homes

August 31, 2018

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives voted 103 to 91 in late June against a proposal that would have limited punitive damages verdicts against Pennsylvania nursing homes to 250% of the compensatory damages awarded, by applying the cap contained in the Pennsylvania Medical Care Availability and [...]

Fourth Circuit Court Of Appeals Reinstates Punitive Damages Award In Federal Nursing Home Wrongful Death Case

August 4, 2018

In an unreported opinion filed on August 2, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) reversed the district court’s grant of judgment for the nursing home defendants as to the jury’s award of punitive damages for the plaintiffs, and re[...]

Iowa Appellate Court Allows Prior Nursing Home Citations, Punitive Damages In Nursing Home Case

August 1, 2018

The Court of Appeals of Iowa (“Iowa Appellate Court”) held in its decision filed on June 6, 2018 that the trial court had not abused its discretion in allowing the Iowa nursing home negligence jury to consider the defendant nursing home’s prior deficiency citations, finding that th[...]

California Appellate Court Reduces Punitive Damages Award From $70M To $19.6M In Malfunctioning Surgical Stapler Case

July 8, 2018

The Court of Appeal of the State of California First Appellate District Division Five (“California Appellate Court”), in its opinion filed on June 13, 2018, reduced the punitive damages award by a California jury from $70 million to $19.7 million (i.e., two-times the amount of the compen[...]

$11.1M New Jersey Pelvic Mesh Verdict Upheld

April 3, 2016

In its unpublished opinion filed on March 29, 2016, the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey (“Appellate Court”) upheld the $11.1 million New Jersey transvaginal mesh verdict in favor of a South Dakota couple that included $3.35 million in compensatory damages and [...]

Pennsylvania Verdict Against Nursing Home For Compensatory And Punitive Damages Upheld

August 1, 2014

On July 31, 2014, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Superior Court”) upheld a verdict from August 2012 against a nursing home and the health care network that controlled the nursing home for both compensatory and punitive damages that totaled $2,287,601. The jury found that the def[...]

Pennsylvania Lawmakers Want To Restrict Nursing Home Malpractice Damages

January 22, 2012

The Pennsylvania House narrowly passed a bill this week that would restrict the amount of punitive damages that can be awarded as a result of nursing home neglect or abuse. Passed by a vote of 103 to 89, the proposed legislation would restrict the amount of punitive damages to no more than 200[...]

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