Eighth Circuit Win for Creed & Gowdy

Dimitri Peteves and Bryan Gowdy successfully defended a jury verdict in a products-liability case that awarded the plaintiff $1,050,000 in compensatory damages and $2,500,000 in punitive damages. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of defendant's motion for a new trial and defendant's motion for judgment as a matter of law on the issue of punitive damages. The case concerned a metal-on-metal hip-replacement device, which the jury determined was defectively designed.

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