On Thursday the Justice Department announced that oil service company, Halliburton, admitted to destroying evidence from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster. The company has chosen to plead guilty to a criminal charge and will face three years’ probation and a maximum fine of $200,000. In May and June of 2010 Halliburton performed 3-D computer […]
Although there is no official ban of texting and driving throughout Texas, Houston Mayor Annise Parker is asking a specific group of people to put their phones away while behind the wheel, truck drivers. “Texting while driving is a growing, critical problem across the United States,” Mayor Parker told MyFox Houston. Coca-Cola has banned drivers […]
Employers Mutual Casualty Company Unlawfully Delays Property Insurance Claim in DisputeOn May 16, 2010, a hailstorm struck the Oklahoma City area and damaged several commercial properties that were all owned by the same policyholder. His insurance company, Employers Mutual Casualty Company, or EMCC, inspected all the damage to the properties and estimated that it would […]
In March 2013, a California jury ordered Johnson and Johnson to pay over $8.3 million in damages to a Montana man who sued the company over their now recalled ASR XL Acetabular metal-on-metal hip replacement. The jury ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay the plaintiff, a retired Montana prison guard named Loren Kransky, $338,000 to […]
With any form of medication that is either prescribed or over the counter, it is quite common for the medicine to possess a wide multitude of side effects. Unfortunately, some are more severe than others. Nevertheless, every person’s body works differently. For example, many children who take Ritalin develop a lack of hunger and loss […]
On Wednesday June 5, 2013, Luther Strange, Attorney General of Alabama toured the northern half of the State with Pat Juneau, claims administrator for the Deepwater Horizon Economic Settlement. The purpose of the trip, as stated by Atty. Gen. Strange, was to inform the citizens of Alabama of their rights pursuant to the terms of […]
Watch this interesting video featuring the deposition of State Farm Insurance manager Roy Paynter.
An unnamed man traveling westbound on Northeast Loop 820 in Fort Worth died Sunday morning when his car fell off the overpass around 3 a.m., police say. The Fort Worth overpass fatality victim, whose name has not been released by officials, was reported to have taken the curve too quickly, according to witness statements, which […]
If you are like many people, you have recently felt the frustration and disappointment of finding out that you are excluded from the BP Oil Spill Settlement. While the terms of the BP settlement are broad and encompass a large array of businesses and individuals who suffered economic loss in the wake of the Deepwater […]
On Monday, July 8, 2013, before the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, lawyers for BP vehemently argued that the class action Settlement Agreement designed to compensate Gulf Coast residents and business affected by the BP oil spill is not being interpreted the way the company believes it should be. This is the same Settlement Agreement […]