The family of a Lee High School student killed in November's bus crash has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit, citing the lack of seat belts on the bus.

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.

In July 2002, Jones, then an investigator in Pennsylvania's Office of the Inspector General, had been assigned to determine whether a state official took money from drug companies trying to do business with the state.

Nicole Ford's family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit. She's one of four Lee High School students who died when their school bus crashed in November.

In the second-largest Vioxx verdict to date, a federal jury in New Orleans awarded $51 million to a 62-year-old retired FBI agent who suffered a heart attack after taking Vioxx for two-and-a-half years.

Merck & Co. won its second Vioxx trial in less than a week when an Alabama jury rejected the claims of a man who blamed the once-popular pain medication for his heart attack in 2001.

The March of Dimes has named Montgomery lawyer at its 2006 Citizen of the Year for the River Region.

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.

Each year the March of Dimes names an outstanding citizen from the River Region as its honoree for the March of Dimes Citizen of the year testimonial event.

Montgomery trial lawyer Jere Beasley has been named the March of Dimes Citizen of the year.