Alabama trial lawyer C. Gibson Vance was feeling confident. At a December 6 dinner in Washington, the treasurer of the newly renamed American Association for Justice boasted that with the end of 12 years of Republican rule on Capital Hill, the plaintiffs bar was in the driver's seat.

Alabama Voters Against Lawsuit Abuse (AVALA) is calling for the Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb to recuse herself from the Exxon Mobil case.

The drivers of a school bus and a car involved in a deadly wrack on the interstate overpass in Huntsville have been names defendants in the first wrongful death lawsuit filed in the accident, which killed four teens.

The drivers of a school bus car involved a deadly wreck on a interstate overpass in Huntsville have been names defendants in the first wrongful death lawsuit filed in the accident, which killed four teens.

The family of Nicole Ford, one of the four girls killed in a tragic school bus accident filed a wrongful death suit in Madison County Circuit Court, lawyers representing the family announced Monday.

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.