CVN Florida’s Defense Attorney of 2019 Cleared Nutrition Company at Trial Over Man’s Liver Failure
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CVN Florida’s Defense Attorney of 2019
Nicklaus & Associates P.A.’s Edward Nicklaus
The Trial: McCants v. Vitacost.com, Inc.
The Verdict: In April, jurors cleared Kroger-owned nutrition company Vitacost.com of responsibility for the catastrophic liver damage James McCants claims he suffered because of the company’s green tea extract.
The Details: McCants, who was forced to undergo a liver transplant months after beginning to take Vitacost’s green tea extract, claims the company failed to warn him of the possibility that the supplement could damage his organs. At trial, his attorneys requested more than $6 million in medical expenses alone, plus unspecified damages for pain and suffering.
Key to the case was what, if any, link the supplement had to McCants’s liver failure. Nicklaus argued that Vitacost’s general warnings about the supplement were sufficient, contending studies failed to show green tea extract posed an unreasonable risk of liver damage.
Nicklaus’s adept courtroom work led jurors to clear Vitacost after about four hours of deliberations. And it made him stand out as CVN Florida’s Defense Attorney of 2019.