News & Updates
WWNYTV | Starbucks to pay $50 million to delivery driver burned by hot coffee
Hillel Aron | Courthosue News Service | Mach 14, 2025 LOS ANGELES (CN) — An LA County jury on Friday ordered Starbucks to pay $50 million to a Postmates driver who dropped scalding hot tea on his lap, causing third-degree burns and permanently disfiguring his...
CVN | Starbucks Found Liable For Customer’s Burns From Beverage Spill
David Siegel | CVN | Mach 7, 2025 Los Angeles, CA - A California state court jury found Starbucks liable on Wednesday for severe burns a Postmates driver suffered while picking up a drive-through order, and the full trial was webcast gavel-to-gavel by Courtroom View...
CDLLIFE | Woman awarded $21.3 M for wreck with semi after stopping in road without signaling
Wimberly Patton | CDLLIFE | February 12, 2025 The wreck happened in the California Heights neighborhood of Long Beach, California back in 2016. The jury’s decision was reached on Monday, February 10th of this year. According to Long Beach Post, 43-year-old...
DAILY NEWS | Long Beach woman rear-ended by tractor-trailer awarded $21.3 million for injuries
Scott Schwebke | Los Angeles Daily News | February 11, 2025 A Los Angeles County jury has awarded $21.3 million in damages to a woman and her young son who were injured in 2016 when a tractor-trailer owned by a food distribution company slammed into the rear of...
LONG BEACH POST | Jury awards $21.3 million verdict to Long Beach woman rear-ended by truck
Staff and Wire Reports | Long Beach Post | February 12, 2025 A Long Beach woman has won $21.3 million in a negligence lawsuit alleging she was left with a traumatic brain injury and chronic pain when her van was hit from behind by a big-rig truck in the...
DAILY JOURNAL | Justice Served: $34M Verdict for Woman Rear-Ended by Truck in Los Angeles
Skyler Romero | Daily Journal | February 12, 2025 In a landmark victory for justice, a Los Angeles jury awarded $34 million to Leila Miyamoto-Workman, a mother whose life was turned upside down when a Systems Services of America truck rear-ended her minivan,...
CDLLIFE | Woman awarded $21.3 M for wreck with semi after stopping in road without signaling
Wimberly Patton | CDLLIFE | February 12, 2025 The wreck happened in the California Heights neighborhood of Long Beach, California back in 2016. The jury’s decision was reached on Monday, February 10th of this year. According to Long Beach Post, 43-year-old...
Daily Mail | Man went to doctor for fatigue…
Emily Joshu Sterne | Daily Mail | November 28, 2024 A man in New Mexico has been awarded the biggest medical payout in history after doctors 'irreversibly' damaged his penis. The patient, who has not been named, was conned into having unnecessary injections into his...
Family sues MercyOne for negligence in heart patient death
Photo Credit: Tim Hynds, Sioux City Journal file Excerpt from Nick Hytrek's Sioux City Journal Article SIOUX CITY — The family of a Le Mars, Iowa, man has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a Sioux City hospital, alleging staff members gave him a lethal dosage of...
$275M Verdict Against Monsanto In Latest PCB Exposure Trial in Washington State School
Excerpts from David Siegel's Courtroom View Network's Article here: https://blog.cvn.com/jury-hits-monsanto-with-275m-verdict-in-latest-trial-over-pcb-exposure-in-washington-state-school A Washington State court jury returned a $275 million verdict last week in the...
Nicholas Rowley Named Daily Journal Top 100 Lawyers 2022
Family of Transit Worker Who Died In Mass Shooting Files Suit
News Links for this Case SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE - Family of VTA mass shooting victim files lawsuit saying authorities failed to protect workers SAN JOSE SPOTLIGHT - San Jose VTA faces lawsuit from family of shooting victim En Español: San Jose VTA enfrenta...
In The News: Increasing Medical Malpractice Caps In California
May 9, 2022 - Featuring Nick Rowley's contributions for increasing medical malpractice limits in California. LA Times: Column: Everyone wins in compromise to increase malpractice payouts — especially victims LA Times: California’s malpractice payouts would...
ELAWVATE Podcast: Nick and Courtney Rowley
Season 2 / Episode 1: Damages Evolving with David Ball, Artemis Malekpour, Nick and Courtney Rowley We are kicking off Season 2 of the Elawvate podcast with a bang! In our first episode, Ben and Rahul host four of the country’s most respected trial lawyers and trial...
Legal Beagle Podcast: Nick and Courtney Rowley
Nick Rowley, Courtney Rowley and Daniel Bidegaray join Jonathan to talk about Loss of Consortium. Loss of consortium is a standalone claim for damages brought by the spouse (and sometimes children) of an individual who been injured or killed as a result of a...
Lawsuit: Dubuque school district’s negligence resulted in sex assault
Watch Benjamin Novotny's Television Interview on KWWL: Link to KWWL Page (or click image above) From the Telegraph Herald (Page A2) on Sunday 1/23/22:BY ALLIE HINGA allie.hinga@thmedia.com / Jan 23, 2022 Television Coverage of this case at ABC's KCRG ...
TL4J On CVN’s Top 10 Most Impressive Plaintiff Verdicts of 2021
#8 - Castillo v. Davignon $9.5m award over child’s crosswalk death beats out $1.2m settlement offer Plaintiff attorneys: Nicholas Rowley (pictured), Benjamin Novotny - Trial Lawyers For Justice, Charlotte Glinka, Karen Zahka - Keches Law Group Link to video of the...
Nick Rowley Interviewed About The Destiny Reyes Case
Nick Rowley, trial lawyer for little Destiny Reyes, speaks on camera about Destiny Reyes, a young girl who was injured in a car accident, and how he and his trial team stepped…
Trial Lawyers for Justice Settles Record $3.5 Million Case Against State of Iowa
Trial Lawyer Nick Rowley, partner at Carpenter, Zuckerman, & Rowley and founder of Trial Lawyers for Justice, his partners at Trial Lawyers for Justice, Dominic Pechota and Matt Reilly
Hospital shutoff oxygen leading to death
It had been a rough week, but David Hackley's family was looking forward to finally bringing him home. Hackley, 77, was admitted on Jan. 2, 2020, to Gundersen Palmer Lutheran Hospital in West Union for pneumonia. A retired longtime West Union police chief, Hackley...
Nation State of Play Podcast featuring Nicholas Rowley on California’s Regressive Malpractice Damages Cap
The complete settlement is more than $9.5 million in the case of the late Zoe Rosenthal, a popular teacher with The Literacy Project.
Holyoke woman’s family wins $9.5M judgment in crosswalk death
The complete settlement is more than $9.5 million in the case of the late Zoe Rosenthal, a popular teacher with The Literacy Project.
Courtney Rowley 2020 CAALA Trial Lawyer of the Year Nominee
Trial Lawyer Courtney Rowley has been nominated for the 2020 CAALA Trial Lawyer of the Year Award.
Family files lawsuit against University of Iowa after 18-year-old
The mother of Cedar Rapids’ Gerald Michael Belz, an 18-year-old University of Iowa student who froze to death during a polar vortex in January 2019, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the university on Wednesday.