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A Gloucester County jury awarded $750,000 on June 16 to a Sewell man whose injuries from a car accident inhibited his ability to care for his disabled wife. On March 17, 2001, Joseph Iannece collided with another car that failed to yield when making a left hand turn at a stop light. Iannece suffered a cervical herniated disc and two cervical bulging discs with a bilateral radiculopathy.

Iannece, who is retired, made no wage claim, but his injuries prevented him from caring for his wife, Anne, who needs surgery for a heart condition. The jury awarded $650,000 to Iannece and $100,000 to his wife per quod. Superior Court Judge Anne McDonnell presided at trial. Austin says the defense argued that Iannece's nerve and spinal injuries were due to diabetes and degeneration of his spine.

(This information was obtained from the New Jersey Law Journal)

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An Essex County jury on June 30 awarded $3 million to a widow who blamed her husband's death on hospital doctors. Doctors treating William Clark for orthopedic and lung injuries from a truck crash failed to properly insert a naso-gastric tube to drain fluid from his stomach. The doctors mistakenly believed Clark did not need the tube and he eventually aspirated the fluids and choked to death while unattended.

The jury assigned 49 percent of the liability to junior resident Thomas Chiodo and 51 percent to senior resident Dr. Racquel Forsythe. It awarded widow Dorothy Clark $2 million for her husband's pain and suffering and $1 million for financial losses.

The defense presented evidence that there was no need for the tube and that Clark died of cardiac arrest. A resuscitation effort caused the fluid buildup in the lungs.
- Henry Gottlieb, New Jersey Law Journal

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An Essex County jury awarded $5 million on June 16 to two toddlers burned by a pot of boiling water, finding the building owners and the mother of one of the children at fault. Of the total awarded, $4.2 million is earmarked for Jennie Richemond, 22 months old at the time of the accident and $800,000 to her cousin, Jhoven Vilsena, then 25 months old.

After putting on water to boil on Dec 22, 2001 and going to take a shower, Jennie's mother, Edna Sidney, heard a crash and found the children under the stove, scalded. Jennie had burns on 42 percent of her body, Jhoven on 10 percent, mainly her feet and legs.

Cohen says the children must have opened the stove door and climbed on the stove, causing it to tip over. The suit alleged that Elizabeth Prevalon, owner of the four-unit building in Newark, ignored complaints of tipping and that prior owners Aline and Michel Luc Charles failed to install an anti-tip bracket that came with the stove.

The plaintiffs also sued Electrolux Home Products of Cleveland, maker of the Tappan brand stove, alleging improper design because there was no anti-tipping interlock device and inadequate warnings. The jurors found Prevalon and Sidney each 40 percent liable and the Charleses 20 percent. They found Electrolux's safety information inadequate but not a proximate cause of the harm.

(This information was obtained from the New Jersey Law Journal)

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A Somerset County judge on July 1 awarded $6.3 million to a Pennsylvania man for the wrongful death of his mother by his divorced father. Roy Rambo was found guilty of murdering his ex-wife, Linda Rambo, during an argument at his Pohatcong Township dental office on Aug 16, 2002. He was found to have shot her in the back with an automatic pistol and then to have pummeled her with the gun's butt.

She was 47 years old at her death. Rambo is serving a 40 year prison sentence. He did not have a defense lawyer in the civil case. Superior Court judge Harriet Derman awarded $310,000 for wrongful death, $1 million for pain and suffering, and $5 million in punitive damages to the couple's son, Bruce, 31, who paints houses and does odd jobs in the Easton, PA area.

Bruce Rambo may be able to collect as much as $2 million from Roy Rambo's assets, which include stock investments, substantial land and a farmhouse in New Jersey and land in North Carolina.
- Lisa Brennan, New Jersey Law Journal

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