Recently, in what was called a slightly mixed verdict, and with the jurors giving Merck Co. a rebuke saying the company should have known more about the hazards of Vioxx.

The Bibb County woman who watched her husband and son die last September in a Calera air show crash has filed a wrongful death suit against the plane's owner and its late pilot's estate.

Eufaula native Tom Methvin, managing shareholder and president of Beasley Allen (a Montgomery-based law firm) was recently featured in the Montgomery Advertiser.

The woman who watched her husband and son perish in a plane crash at Shelby County air show last September is suing the pilot's estate, the airplane's co-owner and others in Jefferson County Circuit Court.

The woman who watched her husband and son perish in a plane crash at a Shelby County air show last September is suing the pilot’s estate, the airplane’s co-owner and others in Jefferson County Circuit Court.

A wrongful death suit, arising out of the deaths of a father and son at an air show in Shelby County, has been filed in Jefferson County Circuit Court.

Closing arguments in the wrongful death lawsuit Schwaller v. Merck and Co. are expected Monday with a jury verdict probable by the end of the week.

The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has upheld a 2004 jury verdict awarding the city of Columbus, a south Columbus businessman and an Oakland Park resident damages totaling more than $20.7 million from continental Carbon Co. of Phenix City and its parent company, China Synthetic Rubber Corp.

The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has upheld a 2004 jury verdict awarding the city of Columbus, a south Columbus businessman and an Oakland Park resident damages totaling more than $20.7 million from Continental Carbon Co. of Phenix City and its parent company, China Synthetic Rubber Corp.

Merck's defense witness Jerome Cohen, M.D., a St. Louis cardiologist, said his ties to pharmaceutical companies did not influence his opinion that Vioxx did not cause Patricia Schwaller's death.