Personal Injury & Torts
Apr. 11, 2017
Jury awards $454 million in medical gown class action
The verdict includes $450 million in punitive damages that defense counsel plans to challenge.
By Meghann M. Cuniff
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES — A federal jury awarded $450 million in punitive damages against two companies accused of fraudulently marketing and selling medical gowns.
The verdict, delivered just after 8 p.m. on Friday before U.S. District Judge Dolly M. Gee, followed five hours of deliberation and nine days of testimony in a class action brought by Michael J. Avenatti of Eagan Avenatti LLP in Newp...
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