Beasley Allen has written on a practice existing in Corporate America known as "dead peasant" insurance. This is the label put on a practice where an employee takes out life insurance policies on their employees without approval of the employees.

As deadlines near on the settlement Merck & Co. has proposed for cases related to its Vioxx painkiller, it looks highly likely enough plaintiffs will sign on to seal the deal.

The state of Alabama will receive almost $7 million from a settlement with two drug manufacturers, who were defendants in a lawsuit the state filed against more than 70 pharmaceutical manufacturers.

Beasley Allen settled a wrongful death case recently against Georgia Pacific Corporation that arose out of a workplace incident.

Beasley Allen represented a client whose prosthetic leg failed due to an improper fitting by the prosthetist.

Several plaintiffs' lawyers have asked the federal judge overseeing the $4.85 billion Vioxx settlement to give them the freedom to keep some of their clients outside the settlement.

Beasley Allen, along with the firm of McCorquodale & McCorquodale, which is located in Jackson, Alabama, represented Clarke-Mobile Counties Gas District.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has finally set seat belts standards for school buses.

On November 9th, Merck & Co. Inc. announced that they would pay $4.85 billion to settle product liability claims related to usage of Vioxx.

The Alabama Supreme Court, by tossing nearly 99 percent of a $3.6 billion verdict against ExxonMobil, the world's, largest publicly traded oil company, has refused to play Santa to state taxpayers.