Lawsuit Information Center

June 17, 2026

Olympus Scope Lawsuit

Between 2013 and 2024, contaminated Olympus duodenoscopes infected hundreds of patients at hospitals across the United States. At least 35 people died. The infections were caused by dangerous, drug-resistant bacteria that were extremely difficult to treat. The patients had gone into the hospital for diagnostic or therapeutic procedures involving the bile ducts or pancreas, including gallstone evaluations, pancreatic biopsies, and bile duct imaging. Some came out with infections that damaged organs, required months of intensive care, or proved fatal.

The remarkable part is not simply that it happened. Medical devices fail. Infections occur. What makes the Olympus duodenoscope litigation extraordinary is what plaintiffs allege Olympus knew. Olympus knew its scopes could not be reliably cleaned. Olympus knew that bacteria were surviving the reprocessing process and spreading from patient to patient. Olympus knew that patients were dying. And for years, the company failed to respond with the urgency patient safety required.

This page explains what went wrong, why it went wrong, and the legal options available to patients and families harmed by contaminated Olympus scopes. It is written for people who want to understand not just the claims being filed, but the science, the regulatory failures, and the corporate decisions that turned a solvable engineering problem into a public health catastrophe.

June 17, 2026

Internal Bra Mesh Lawsuit

by Ronald V. Miller, Jr.

Breast mesh lawsuits allege that some manufacturers promoted or allowed their mesh products to become widely used in breast reconstruction, augmentation, and revision procedures despite the fact that FDA has not cleared or approved any surgical mesh product for use in breast surgery. The FDA has specifically stated that the safety and effectiveness of surgical mesh in breast surgery, including augmentation and reconstruction, has not been determined.

These internal bra lawsuits allege that manufacturers of products such as AlloDerm, GalaFLEX, Phasix, AlloMax, FlexHD, Strattice, and DuroSorb marketed their devices for breast reconstruction, augmentation, and revision surgeries even though those breast-specific applications had not been adequately studied or cleared by the FDA. Patients were not warned. Surgeons were not given enough information. So when complications developed, including infection, mesh failure, chronic pain, implant loss, breast deformity, and the need for additional surgery, many women had no reason to connect their injuries to the mesh product placed inside them.

This page explains the internal bra mesh lawsuit. Our lawyers talk about what the legal claims are, who may be eligible, what complications may qualify, how to identify your mesh product, what evidence matters, and what these cases may be worth.

June 16, 2026

Maine Injury Settlements and Verdicts (and law)

by Ronald V. Miller, Jr.

Ten years ago, I posted data showing the average personal injury verdict in Maine was approximately $27,000. These numbers do not tend to change much historically. So my guess is the average personal injury settlement in Maine is between $25,000 and $40,000.

But you have to understand how useless that is if you have a personal injury claim in Maine and you are trying to calculate or predict your settlement compensation payout.

Sample settlements and verdicts are not necessarily much better at projecting settlement amounts. But these are weapons you can use to better understand potential settlement compensation for an injury case in Maine.

June 16, 2026

Grok AI Deepfake Lawsuit

by Ronald V. Miller, Jr.

Artificial intelligence has changed how people create, edit, and distribute images. But it has also opened a dangerous new frontier for exploitation and abuse. One of the most alarming developments is the rise of AI-generated sexual deepfakes: fake images or videos that can make it appear as though a real person was nude, sexualized, or involved in conduct that never happened.

The Grok deepfake lawsuit is one of the clearest early tests of whether AI companies can be held legally responsible when their tools generate or enable nonconsensual sexual images. These claims are not just about bad users. They are about product design, warnings, safeguards, profit, notice, and whether a company can release a powerful image-generation tool into the world and then blame victims when the predictable abuse occurs.

If your image, your child’s image, or someone you love was used in an AI-generated sexual deepfake, treat it like evidence in a serious civil case. Because it is. Screenshots help, but URLs, account names, timestamps, takedown requests, medical records, school records, employment records, and platform responses can all help. You do not need every piece of evidence to call, but the more we can preserve, the stronger the case may be.

June 14, 2026

Rhode Island Sex Abuse Lawsuits

by Ronald V. Miller, Jr.

This page is about Rhode Island sexual abuse lawsuits. Our lawyers examine how Rhode Island law defines sexual abuse and assault and when victims of sex abuse can file civil lawsuits and get compensation. We will also analyze the potential settlement for sex abuse lawsuits in Rhode Island.

2026 Update #1: Rhode Island Opens Sexual Abuse Revival Window

Rhode Island has now opened a two-year revival window for civil childhood sexual abuse lawsuits. Governor Dan McKee signed the legislation on June 11, 2026, and the window runs from July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2028. This is the most important Rhode Island sex abuse statute of limitations development in years because it gives survivors with previously expired claims a new opportunity to sue not only perpetrators, but also institutions and supervisors accused of enabling, concealing, failing to report, or negligently supervising the abuse.

June 10, 2026

Sacramento County Boys Ranch Sex Abuse Lawsuits

by Ronald V. Miller, Jr.

This page covers civil sex abuse lawsuits involving juvenile inmates at the Sacramento County Boys Ranch, a now-closed detention facility that operated from 1960 to 2010. During those five decades, juvenile detainees were sexually abused by staff members while the Sacramento County Probation Department looked the other way. California law now gives survivors a clear path to sue — and to get compensated.

If you were held at Boys Ranch and sexually abused by a staff member, guard, or counselor, call our California sex abuse lawyers at 800-553-8082 or get a free consultation online. The call is free, the consultation is confidential, and there is no obligation.

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June 4, 2026

Video Game Addiction Lawsuit Settlements

by Ronald V. Miller, Jr.

Video game addiction lawsuits are gaining momentum as families and individuals come forward to seek accountability from gaming companies for the harm caused by gaming addiction. These cases focus on holding video game manufacturers accountable for exploiting vulnerable players, particularly minors and young adults, through intentionally addictive game designs.

Gaming addiction has caused significant harm, including mental health struggles, social isolation, sleep disruption, academic decline, financial strain, and family conflict. The lawsuits allege that gaming companies prioritized profit over user safety by designing games to keep children and young adults playing longer, spending more money, and returning even when the games were harming them.

Our attorneys examine the rise of video game addiction lawsuits and key allegations such as failure to warn and intentional design defects that make games like Fortnite, Roblox, Minecraft, Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto, Apex Legends, Madden, FIFA, and other online games so addictive.

June 2, 2026

Call of Duty Video Game Addiction Lawsuit

by Ronald V. Miller, Jr.

On this page, our national mass tort lawyers look at Call of Duty video game addiction lawsuits. We look at the features of Call of Duty that plaintiffs allege are intended to make the game highly addictive, Activision’s alleged failure to warn about the addictive nature of the game, the harmful effects of video game addiction, and the potential settlement value of these cases.

This page is not a review of Call of Duty. We are not here to rank the game, talk about graphics, or debate whether it is fun. The legal issue is whether Activision and the developers of Call of Duty designed and marketed a product that can cause foreseeable harm to minors and young adults, and whether they failed to warn families about that risk.

Our lawyers contend that Call of Duty addiction lawsuits are product liability cases. Activision is not being sued because Call of Duty is popular. It is being sued because plaintiffs allege the game was engineered with reward loops, progression systems, microtransactions, battle passes, social pressure, and endless online competition that can push vulnerable users into compulsive play.

June 2, 2026

Average Pennsylvania Personal Injury Settlements and Verdicts

by Ronald V. Miller, Jr.

The post is about the settlement compensation payouts you can expect in Pennsylvania.

A recent study of jury verdicts found that the average personal injury jury verdict in Pennsylvania is $903,705.00.

Now let’s turn the kaleidoscope and look at the median. If you remember from the 9th grade, the median is found by ranking the data from biggest to smallest and then identifying the middle of the data so that there is an equal number that is larger and smaller on each side. If you had 1001 data points, the 500th biggest number would be in the middle.

For many data groups, the gap between the average and the median is the same or very close to it. With personal injury verdicts, they are usually light-years apart. This is reflected in this new study that just came out in Pennsylvania. The median compensatory award in Pennsylvania in the study was $45,000.00

June 1, 2026

South Carolina Settlement Amounts and Jury Payouts

by Ronald V. Miller, Jr.

This page looks at South Carolina personal injury settlements and jury award payouts. We look at settlement amounts and jury awards in South Carolina car accident, medical malpractice, premises liability, wrongful death, product liability, and other injury lawsuits.

If you have a personal injury or wrongful death lawsuit in South Carolina, you understandably want to know the settlement amount or jury payout you can expect. Looking at example verdicts and settlements helps. It gives you a real-world sense of what South Carolina juries and defendants have done in prior cases.

But examples are only a starting point. You can have two cases that look similar on paper and end with very different results. Case value depends on the injury, liability, venue, medical proof, insurance coverage, witness credibility, and whether the plaintiff can show how the injury changed daily life.