Piscitelli Law Firm

$110

Product Liability

Johnson & Johnson ordered by a Missouri jury to pay over $110 million to a Virginia woman who says she developed ovarian cancer after decades of using of its talc-based products for feminine hygiene. The jury awarded $5.4 million in compensatory damages and $105 million in punitive damages against J&J, and $50,000 against Imerys. J&J was 99 percent at fault while Imerys was 1 percent.

$35

Class Action

Class action settlement based on false advertising of the benefits from a food product. At the time it was the largest settlement for a food product false advertising case.

$13

Wrongful Death

Hospital settles for $13 million to avoid wrongful death lawsuits. An Ohio physician charged with murdering 25 patients may have caused the hospital that he worked at to find itself facing potentially catastrophic lawsuits. Mount Carmel Health System paid nearly $13 million in settlements to various families to prevent wrongful death lawsuits over one of its doctor’s allegedly fatal actions.

$6

Medical Malpractice

After years of fighting for a woman and her children against three law firms representing two doctors and a hospital, and a mistrial, the Piscitelli Law Firm won a $5.8 Million verdict in southern Ohio for a woman who suffered kidney damage from doctors failing to monitor her kidney functioning while she was taking Asacol.

$4

Wrongful Death

Settlement for the family of a truck driver who was killed from exposure to a hazardous material load that the shipper mismarked as non-hazardous material.

$3

Medical Malpractice

On the second day of trial, the Piscitelli Law Firm secured a $3.1 million settlement for a child who was blinded by medical malpractice after a resident provided the family with the wrong follow-up date which caused the child to miss the window of treatment that probably would have saved his eyesight.