Topic: Henry Chanin
Consumers, businesses and physicians can expect a financial hit if a state-record jury verdict of $500 million in punitive damages holds up in the Las Vegas case involving hepatitis C victim Henry Chanin, insurance and health care professionals say. They say such ...
500 million was the amount of punitive damages awarded by a Las Vegas jury in a lawsuit stemming from the Sin City's 2008 hepatitis C outbreak. HemCon Medical Technologies and Marine Polymer Technologies both use the polysaccharide chitosan to create bandages ...
Drugmaker Teva Pharmaceutical Industries issued a statement saying it will appeal a $356 million Clark County District Court verdict awarded to Henry Chanin, who says he contracted hepatitis C when one of Teva's drug vials was used on more than one ...
A jury in Las Vegas ordered two drug companies to pay a combined $500 million in punitive damages in the first of hundreds of civil cases stemming from a hepatitis C outbreak two years ago.The Clark County District Court jury on ...
Hundreds were infected and thousands sued, including Henry Chanin, upper school director at The Meadows School in northwest Las Vegas.. Today , Chanin's lawsuit will be the first to go to trial.. "If they can prevail in Chanin, you can prevail in ...
