A jury delivered another multibillion-dollar verdict against the bottled water company that was tied to an outbreak of liver failure in Southern Nevada.
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An attorney said the billions in punitive damages represent the most money that has been awarded by a jury in Nevada.
This is the second lawsuit that has resulted in a nine-figure award for plaintiffs who sued the Real Water bottled water company.
After awarding more than $28 million in compensatory damages, a jury awarded more than $200 million in punitive damages in a lawsuit against Real Water.
The bottled water company was sued after it was tied to multiple cases of liver failure and one woman’s death in November 2020.
A federal judge has signed an order that could effectively put Las Vegas-based Real Water permanently out of business.
In response to the lawsuit, the company’s president and former Nevada legislator Brent Jones agreed to recall and destroy any Real Water products.
Attorneys have linked a Nevada woman’s death to an outbreak of liver illness that health officials tied to a local bottled water company, according to a new lawsuit.
When the pandemic struck, Casey Aiken lost his job as a strip club promoter and was forced to look for new work. In June, he landed a job at Real Water’s since-closed plant on Desert Inn Road.
A lawyer for Las Vegas-based Real Water said the company would turn over devices used to measure contaminants in the product, which has been linked to liver illnesses.
The FDA urges all not to drink, cook with, sell, or serve Real Water until more information is known about whether it is linked to multiple cases of acute non-viral hepatitis.
A lawyer for Las Vegas-based Real Water told a judge on Monday that he could not find the company’s plant manager or lead technician as an FDA investigation proceeds.
Lawyers say they can connect Real Water to severe illnesses in young children, a man’s liver transplant, a woman’s stroke, at least two miscarriages and three dead dogs.
Timeline of major developments in the Food and Drug Administration’s investigation of Las Vegas-based Real Water.
Before Henderson-based Real Water made national news for FDA investigation and several lawsuits, the company’s president, Brent Jones, made headlines during a brief career in Nevada politics.