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  1. August 23, 2024

    The Biggest Texas Trial Rulings Of 2024: Midyear Report

    Trial courts in Texas saw a series of high-dollar verdicts for plaintiffs in suits over patent infringement and personal injuries, but appellate courts tempered some plaintiffs' successes, backing a large retail employer in a harassment suit and tossing a verdict based on a lawyer's remarks. Here's a look at some of the biggest trial decisions in Texas in the first half of 2024.

  2. August 09, 2024

    Jury's $1M Paralysis Verdict Against Insurer Overturned

    A Texas federal judge overturned a jury's verdict and decided an insurer didn't have to cover a $1 million settlement between a former high school gymnast who became quadriplegic after taking LSD and the owners of the home where he ingested the drugs.

  3. February 20, 2024

    Jury Says LSD Didn't Cause Quadriplegia; Insurer To Pay $1M

    A North Carolina insurance company is on the hook for a $1 million settlement between a former high school gymnast who became a quadriplegic after taking LSD and the owners of the home where he ingested the drugs, a Houston federal jury ruled Tuesday.

  4. February 13, 2024

    LSD Trip Didn't Cause Quadriplegia, Houston Jury Told

    An attorney for a former high school gymnast who became a quadriplegic after allegedly taking LSD compared the circumstances of the man's injuries to the hypothetical of a juror getting hit by a car on the way to the courthouse as he fought off a bid from an insurance company seeking to avoid paying a $1 million settlement connected to the man's injury.