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Mississippi Woman Awarded $2.6M in Med Mal Suit Over Child’s Brain Injuries
A jury in Mississippi has returned a $2.6 million verdict to a woman who sued a doctor saying his inaction caused her child to have brain injuries. Court records show that a Rankin County Circuit Court jury awarded the money …
POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2020 6:19 AM |
Trumps Want Court to Approve Arbitration for Marketing Fraud Lawsuit
A lawyer for Donald Trump on Tuesday urged a federal appeals court to halt a lawsuit accusing the U.S. president of exploiting his family name to promote a marketing scam targeting poor and working-class people. The lawyer, Thomas McCarthy, told …
POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2020 6:00 AM |
Health Workers, Nursing Homes Should Get First COVID Vaccines, Says CDC
A panel of advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday voted 13 to 1 to recommend that healthcare workers and residents of long-term care facilities should be first in line to receive the first …
POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2020 6:00 AM |
Supreme Court Justices Tackle Company Liability for Human Rights Abuses
U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared wary of barring lawsuits against American companies over alleged human rights abuses abroad but signaled they could toss out a case accusing Cargill Inc. and a Nestle SA subsidiary of knowingly helping to …
POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2020 6:00 AM |
Louisiana Court: ‘Collectibility’ Can’t Be Used to Limit Legal Malpractice Damage Amounts
Are a plaintiff’s damages in a legal malpractice case limited to the amount they could have collected in a judgement in the underlying lawsuit that an attorney was found to have mishandled? The Louisiana Supreme Court has said ‘no’ in …
POSTED DECEMBER 01, 2020 11:46 PM |
TWFG Insurance Acquires Penguin Insurance Services in California
TWFG Insurance has acquired Penguin Insurance Services in Milpitas, Calif. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Penguin is a network of independent brokers, which supports brokers throughout California, Colorado, Nevada, Texas, Washington and Arizona. TWFG Insurance, or The Woodlands …
POSTED DECEMBER 01, 2020 10:18 PM |
Closing Georgia Coal Ash Ponds Expected To Take 15 Years
The dewatering and closure of remaining coal ash ponds at a Georgia Power Co. plant in northwest Georgia will take 15 years to complete. That’s what the unit of Atlanta-based Southern Co. told local leaders earlier this month during a …
POSTED DECEMBER 01, 2020 5:56 PM |
Louisiana Deputy Sues Ex-Judge Over Racial Slurs in Text Messages
A Black Louisiana sheriff’s deputy has sued a white former judge, saying a racial slur in her private text messages defamed him and has hurt his ability to do his job since being made public. Assumption Parish Deputy Erick Taylor …
POSTED DECEMBER 01, 2020 5:56 PM |
Black Firefighters in North Carolina Allege Racism Amid Larger Reckoning
They threw her new cellphone on the roof of the station house and placed nails under the wheels of her pickup truck. As she prepared to answer a call, someone poured tobacco juice in her boots. It was too much …
POSTED DECEMBER 01, 2020 5:54 PM |
Investigation Into Cause of Fire at Kansas Alcohol Plant Underway
Authorities say no one was hurt in an explosion and fire at a northeast Kansas distilling plant that was fined earlier this year over a noxious cloud of fumes that sent dozens to the hospital in 2016. Atchison Police Chief …
POSTED DECEMBER 01, 2020 5:51 PM |
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