Monsanto Co., and its former chemicals unit, Solutia, Inc., have agreed to pay $600 million in cash to settle claims brought by thousands of Anniston, Alabama residents over the dumping of toxic PCBs in the area until the 1970s, the companies said yesterday. The settlement concludes lengthy litigati…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Aug.21 (UPI) – A $600 million settlement ahs been reached in two 30-yearld cases involving contamination claims of 20,000 Alabama residents. The claims were filed long ago by residents of Anniston against three once-related companies: Solutia, Inc., Monsanto Co. and Pharmacia…

Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) – Monsanto Co., Solutia, Inc. and Pfizer, Inc. will pay more than $700 million to settle Alabama lawsuits that allege Monsanto dumped toxic chemicals three decades ago. David Shelby, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said the threatened bankruptcy helped spur the settlement, …

BIRMINGHAM – Solutia, Inc. and Monsanto, Co. have agreed to pay $700 million to settle claims by more than 20,000 Anniston residents over PCB contamination, plaintiff’s attorneys said Wednesday. The agreement, which will end a long-running trial in state court over decades –old pol…

“It’s just not good enough.” That’s what many consumers around the country say about the whopping $484 million settlement reached between Illinois-based Household International and the attorneys general in all 50 states to settle several pending lawsuits involving alleged pre…

The Alabama Trial Lawyers Association recently installed a slate of new officers at its annual conference.

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

A Montgomery-originated class action suit against cable giant Charter Communications which a federal court had been reviewing since December has been bounced back to a Montgomery County court.

A lawsuit recently filed against the makers of Vioxx alleges that Merck knew, or should have known, of the harmful side effects of Vioxx, but continued to market the drug without warning the public about the dangers. The lawsuits have been filed against Merck by the firm of Beasley, Allen, Crow, Met…

A lawsuit recently filed against the makers of Vioxx alleges that Merck knew, or should have known, of the harmful side effects of Vioxx, but continued to market the drug without warning the public about the dangers. The lawsuits have been filed against Merck by the firm of Beasley, Allen, Crow, Met…