In 2002, the National Law Journal selected Beasley Allen Managing Shareholder for inclusion on its "40 Under 40" list, recognizing the most successful young litigators in America. The list featured attorneys expected to lead the nation's litigation bar for decades to come. Methvin was lauded as "an innovator in consumer fraud cases."

A former Eufaula insurance agent accused of stealing premiums, forging signatures and falsifying insurance documents now faces six lawsuits in Barbour County.

Under Tom Methvin’s leadership as managing shareholder, Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles has become the largest plaintiff’s law firm in Alabama.

Barbara Carlisle and her parents sued Whirlpool Financial National Banka and Gulf Coast Electronics, claiming that the companies tried to overcharge them $1,200 for two satellite dishes sold door-to-door in 1995.

Both sides predict that a $581 million jury verdict against a finance unit of Whirlpool Financial National Bank and Gulf Coast Electronics to pay $580 million in punitive damages and $975,000 in compensatory damages to three plaintiffs, who had charged the defendants with consumer fraud in the sale …

On Friday, May 7, a jury in Hale County returned a verdict against Whirlpool Financial National Bank, now known as Transamerica Bank, in the amount of $580,975,000. The verdict was awarded to Barbara Carlisle and George and Velma Merriweather.

A state record $581 million lawsuit verdict will almost certainly be slashed on appeal, but plaintiff attorney Tom Methvin’s firm will eventually get a sizable chunch of change.

GREENSBORO - Standing under a shade tree in front of his small hime in rural Hale County on Tuesday, George Merriweather, 80, was unimpressed by all the attention.

This Wall Street Journal story features a landmark verdict secured by Beasley Allen Managing Shareholder Tom Methvin against Whirlpool in 1999. The $581 million verdict was meant to send a message to the company for its practice of misrepresenting loans offered to clients purchasing satellite dishes. The jury found for the plaintiff, saying Whirlpool was in violation of the federal Truth in Lending Act.

Benton Harbor, Mich., May 10 (Bloomberg News)- The Whirlpool Corporation, the largest United States appliance maker, was ordered to pay $581 million by an Alabama jury that said three people who bought satellite television dishes were mislead over a credit agreement with the company’s former finance unit.