Joe O'Neill

On July 1st, a jury in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas returned a $70 million verdict against Johnson & Johnson. This was for failing to warn of the risks of its antipsychotic drug Risperdal; which has been linked to…

This case involves a young child who was struck by a car during her walk to school. The highway where the girl was walking had no sidewalk, and the speed limit was excessive for a road that allowed pedestrian traffic. In…

This case involves the death of the Plaintiff’s brother at a jail in Hawaii. The brother was being treated with methadone for pain resulting from an arm injury a couple of years earlier. At some point, he was overdosed with the methadone,…

This case involves a now-recalled bedside device used to accommodate medical patients with respiratory disorders such as COPD. In this instance a ventilator of this type was being used to supply oxygen to a sleeping patient in an Alaskan hospital who…

This case involves a female patient who presented to the hospital complaining of chest pain. She described her pain as continuous and severe, originating in her chest and radiating to her arm. The initial assessment was musculoskeletal pain and combination…

This case involves a 70-year-old woman from Kansas who had routine visits with her internist to screen for cancer. She had a family history of a particular type of cancer, and standard blood work was ordered for cancer screening. However, there was a…

This case revolved around a foreclosure in Wyoming, where the Defendant alleged that a signature on the mortgage is not hers. The Defendant claimed that she was never a resident of the foreclosed property, and that she had no knowledge or…

This case involves an individual in West Virginia who sustained significant injuries in a fire caused by a common, acetone-based household cleaning product. The Plaintiff was using the product on the floor of her home when the cleaner suddenly ignited,…

This case involves a town in Arkansas where the presence of toxic chemical compounds known as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) had been discovered in several of its buildings. PCBs are man-made organic chemical compounds that were used in hundreds of industrial…

This case involves cattle that got loose and were struck on a roadway in Oklahoma, causing a fatal accident. During the year of the incident in question, the region suffered from a severe drought. The Defendants were responsible for maintaining the…