Watford v. State

Parentheticals

• holding that the inadvertent disclosure of a privileged document does not waive the attorney-client privilege if attorney took all reasonable steps to avoid disclosure and asserted the privilege as soon as the disclosure became known

  Jenney v. Airdata Wiman, Inc.

• upholding a $30 million dollar award for pain and suffering to the parents of a boy burned in a fire, which resulted in the boy’s death

  Bravo v. United States

• upholding a $30 million dollar award for pain and suffering to the parents of a boy burned in a fire, which resulted in the boy's death

  Bravo v. United States

• upholding a $60,000,000.00 verdict against General Motors to the parents of a boy who died in a burning car, which included $30,000,000.00 to the parents for their non-economic damages

  Bravo v. United States

• dealing with GM’s efforts to cover up its knowledge that the gas tanks in certain of its vehicles were susceptible to rupture and ensuing fires by hiding documents and witnesses

  The L.E. Myers Company v. Young

• "The way that a party claims privilege under [rule 1.280(b)(5) ] is to file a privilege log."

  Morton Plant Hosp. Ass'n, Inc. v. Shahbas

• “Even assuming that the video of the crash test was inadmissible in evidence, [the expert] still could have relied on the test to give his opinion .... ”

  Coddington v. Nunez

• $60 million award for family that was severely injured in a motor vehicle accident, with $15 million attributable to the emotional loss suffered by parents of 13-year-old child who died from serious burns he received in the accident

  R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. v. Townsend