Korn Two Missouri couples who had sought $1.36 million from a Carbondale True Value hardware store were awarded only $113,000 on Friday by jurors deciding a personal injury case in the Southern District of Illinois.
Hartley LOS ANGELES – Emerging trends in asbestos litigation are producing new pools of plaintiffs from new waters sparsely fished by attorneys until recent years.
Harron JACKSON, Miss. – Just as X-rays allow patients to see through skin, X-ray lawsuits allow Americans to see through asbestos litigation that swallowed profits of American corporations and carried away their assets through bankruptcy courts.
Crowder Madison County Circuit Judge Barbara Crowder has denied a motion to disqualify Roy Dripps of LakinChapman law firm as counsel to former asbestos plaintiff Judy Buckles in a legal malpractice suit against Mark Goldenberg's firm.
Herrick PHILADELPHIA – Now that federal judge Eduardo Robreno has ordered asbestos lawyers to state a specific claim against every business that each of their clients sued, the lawyers plead to escape his jurisdiction.
Ray Harron LEXINGTON, Miss. – With one and a half million flimsy asbestos claims fading into twilight on the East Coast, a defendant seeks accountability in Mississippi from lawyers, doctors and hustlers who manufactured the claims.
Simmons Madison County Circuit Judge Barbara Crowder has dismissed John Simmons and his firm from a legal malpractice suit against Mark Goldenberg and his firm.
Hopkins He is entitled, as the leader of all Americans, to our support and good wishes for the reckoning to come, the time when rhetoric will not supplant the wisdom acquired in the crucible of experience.
Dr. Paletta After deliberating four hours on Wednesday afternoon, a Madison County jury returned a defense verdict in favor of Norfolk Southern Railway.
A Madison County jury has awarded plaintiff Jessica Johnson $20,346.85 after a one day auto accident trial on Nov. 10. Johnson received about a quarter of what she had sought for pain and suffering.
Stack Madison County Circuit Judge Daniel Stack has started picking a panel of 12 jurors for a week long Federal Employers' Liability Act (FELA) trial.
Crowder Closing arguments in a breach of contract trial will get under way Thursday after two days of testimony in Madison County Circuit Judge Barbara Crowder's courtroom.
A personal injury trial involving an apartment floor that gave way will begin at 9 a.m. on Nov. 10 in Madison County Circuit Judge Andy Matoesian's courtroom.
Hopkins Like Kurtz, Obama has now assumed mythical status, propelled by innate charisma that masks a socialistic ambition, stroked by the hope of a "not in my lifetime" occurrence happening before the eyes of the skeptical Nation, fueled by elements of white guilt and relentlessly promoted by a media having abandoned all pretense of objectivity, he stands ready to claim his prize.