Rosie Manins

6 days ago | ajc.com | Rosie Manins

Retirees who invested their life savings in a Marietta man’s $110 million Ponzi scheme can’t blame their losses on his former employer, brokerage and investment bank Oppenheimer, the Georgia Court of Appeals has ruled. On Tuesday, the court upheld a Fulton County judge’s decision to dismiss two lawsuits brought against Oppenheimer by 13 Georgia investors and 30 others from North Carolina.

1 week ago | ajc.com | Rosie Manins

A mistrial was declared Tuesday after jurors awarded a retired truck driver a total of $70 million in his lawsuit against the owner of a Covington sterilization facility where a toxic gas has been used and emitted for decades. Jurors in Gwinnett County found Becton, Dickinson and Company and its predecessor, C.R. Bard, liable for negligence and creating a public nuisance in the case brought by longtime Covington resident Gary Walker, who was diagnosed with cancer in 2017.

1 week ago | ajc.com | Rosie Manins

A retired truck driver was awarded $20 million Friday by a jury in his landmark trial against the owner and operator of a sterilization facility in Covington where a carcinogenic gas has been used for decades. It took a dozen jurors just over three hours Friday to reach their verdict in favor of Gary Walker, who alleged he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2017 because he was exposed over 47 years to ethylene oxide emitted from the facility.

1 week ago | ajc.com | Rosie Manins

The judge overseeing a landmark trial in Gwinnett County refused to apply Gov. Brian Kemp’s new lawsuit-limiting legislation to the case Thursday as lawyers made their closing arguments to a jury. Gwinnett County State Court Judge Emily Brantley is presiding over the first trial in hundreds of Georgia lawsuits alleging people were injured by exposure to ethylene oxide, a gas used to sterilize medical products at several facilities in the state.

1 week ago | gazettextra.com | Rosie Manins

ATLANTA - A jury in South Georgia has awarded $70 million to a Camilla woman who says she lost both her legs above the knee because doctors gave her a medication overdose and botched her care, court filings show. Lawyers for Jessica Powell said it took jurors in Dougherty County just over 30 minutes to rule in her favor against three Albany doctors and their medical practices after hearing two and a half weeks' worth of evidence. Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency.