Several lawsuits have been settled over a Huntsville school bus crash that killed four high school students and left dozens injured two years ago.

Toxic fumes are believed to have killed four workers whose bodies were pulled from a 20-foot deep well near a blacktop demolition company.

Our firm settled a wrongful death case on October 22nd after a week of trial in an Alabama State Court.

Our firm tried a product liability case last month involving a seat belt system in a passenger car that failed in a single vehicle rollover. The case, filed in an Alabama state court, was against the car manufacturer and the supplier of the seat belts. Our clients were a husband and wife whose lives were changed forever as a result of this incident, which occurred in 2004. After 7 days of trial, the case was finally settled.

A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed arising out of the school bus accident that occurred in Huntsville, Alabama, in November of last year. The complaint names as defendants Laidlaw Transit, the school bus driver and the driver of a passenger car that was involved in the incident. The school bus involved, which was owned by Laidlaw Transit, was transporting a group of Lee High School students to the Huntsville Technology Center.

Kendall Dunson has been installed as president of the Alabama Lawyers Association. He is a shareholder at Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles in Montgomery, where he practices in product liability, general personal injury and worker’s compensation cases involving defective industrial machinery.

Kendall Dunson and Paul Sizemore have become shareholders in the Montgomery law firm of Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C.