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About Emily Acosta
Emily T. Acosta is Senior Counsel at Wagstaff Law Firm, where she litigates complex personal injury, wrongful death, and product liability cases across the country. Over her career she has helped recover hundreds of millions of dollars for people harmed by defective drugs, medical devices, and consumer products, with key roles in mass torts involving Roundup, Bard IVC filters, transvaginal mesh, talcum powder, and the anticoagulant Pradaxa, where she was part of the only trial team to secure a punitive damages verdict in that litigation. She was one of the youngest lawyers appointed to the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee in the Elmiron products liability MDL and currently serves on the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee in In Re: Hair Relaxer Marketing, Sales Practices, and Products Liability Litigation.
She has taken hundreds of depositions, handled expert development and cross-examinations, argued before judges in California, Texas, Illinois, Georgia, West Virginia, and Missouri, and tried cases to verdict in state and federal courts. She also represents survivors of sexual abuse in civil litigation and confidential mediations. She has been recognized by Best Lawyers, National Trial Lawyers 40 Under 40, High Stakes Litigators, and Super Lawyers Rising Stars.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Wagstaff Law Firm
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A Denver jury awarded $67,349,380 in July 2024 after a seven-month-old suffered permanent brain damage when a cardiothoracic surgeon accidentally tied off the infant's aorta during open-heart surgery and the perfusionists failed to detect the resulting loss of blood flow for more than seven hours.
Edwin Hardeman, 70, sprayed Roundup on his Sonoma County property for about 26 years and was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2015. In the first federal Roundup bellwether trial, a unanimous San Francisco jury found in March 2019 that the herbicide was a substantial factor in his cancer and that Monsanto failed to warn, awarding $5,267,634 in compensatory damages and $75 million in punitive damages. Judge Vince Chhabria cut the punitive award to $20 million as constitutionally excessive, leaving a $25,267,634 judgment. The Ninth Circuit affirmed in May 2021 and the U.S. Supreme Court denied Monsanto's petition in June 2022.
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