An Alabama law firm has filed a class action lawsuit against the Tennessee Valley Authority on behalf of property owners impacted by a recent coal ash spill in East Tennessee that experts are now beginning to say may be the most significant environmental disaster in the United States since the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WATE) -- An Alabama law firm with an environmental department has filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of people whose property was damaged by the ash slide at TVA's Kingston Fossil Plant.

The city of Columbus was awarded $3.4 million Tuesday for its share of punitive damages in its lawsuit against a Phenix City plant. The city of Columbus, local boat dealer John Tharpe and south Columbus resident Owen Ditchfield won their suit against Continental Carbon in 2004. They had said their homes, businesses and buildings had been damaged by carbon black dust emitted from the plant.

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

The Alabama State Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Program (VLP) nominated Beasley Allen attorney Rhon Jones for its Pro Bono Attorney of the Year.

The Continental Carbon Co. Filed a petition Wednesday asking the 11th Circuit Court U.S. Court of Appeals to rehear its decision in March that upheld a $17.5 million punitive damage award against the Phenix City carbon black plant and its parent company, China Synthetic Rubber Corp.

Nearly 40 Alabama residents have filed suit against a Florida-based mortgage service provider, claiming the company improperly charged home owners in a variety of ways.

Multiple trials are set in several Alabama counties this year, beginning in April, against Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC, formerly Ocwen Federal Bank FSB. Ocwen, headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida, is the largest third-party mortgage service provider in the United States.

The settlement of the class action lawsuit against DuPont for making the chemical C8 may be a sign of things to come as two other communities across the country have proceeded with lawsuits of their own.

ANNISTON, ALA (August 26, 2003) – In a landmark case involving approximately 18,000 plaintiffs, The Cochran Firm announced that they have reached a $700 million environmental case settlement against defendant Monsanto, Pharmacia and Solutia, Inc. The plaintiffs, consisting of Anniston, Alabama…