Tom Methvin in the News

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Managing Shareholder and Lead Attorney in $581 Million Fraud Verdict
 

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Beasley Allen sponsors Cystic Fibrosis Foundation 'Great Strides Walk-A-Thon'

Beasley Allen Legal News | May 15, 2003

Beasley, Allen Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C. is pleased to e a sponsor for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's Great Strides Walk-A-Bout on Sunday, May 18th at the Montgomery Zoo. In addition to the generous donation, the law firm has put together a team of employees who have volunteere…

Managing Shareholder nationally honored as All Star

Beasley Allen Legal News | January 22, 2003

Managing Shareholder, Tom Methvin, has been named a Top 10 All Star in the 2002 National Law Journal's Litigation Yearbook. Methvin was honored as a "Top 40 under 40" in the National Law Journal's July Issue. The National Law Journal is a weekly legal publication delivering news and inform…

Dillon Now Facing Six Fraud Suits

The Eufaula Tribune | February 3, 2002
A former Eufaula insurance agent accused of stealing premiums, forging signatures and falsifying insurance documents now faces six lawsuits in Barbour County.

Methvin Does Battle For Consumers

Montgomery Advertiser | November 4, 2001
Under Tom Methvin's leadership as managing shareholder, Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles has become the largest plaintiff's law firm in Alabama.

Rural Family Cheated Awarded $581 Million by A Jury

Lawyer's USA | May 31, 1999
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.

$581 Million Verdict Puts Rural Family in Spotlight

Montgomery Advertiser | May 15, 1999
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.

Whirlpool ordered to pay $581 million in Alabama satellite-dish finance case

WALL STREET JORNAL | May 11, 1999

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.

Whirlpool Ordered to Pay $581 million

The New York Times | May 11, 1999
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.

Whirlpool Preying on the Poor

Banco | April 7, 1999
Whirlpool paid $580 million in punitive damages making it if not the biggest settlement in US history, one of the biggest. The story is indicative of Whirlpool's corrupt culture and why a whistleblower like Pinkney can't be tolerated.

Fraud growing in lending push on home equity

NEW YORK TIMES | October 13, 1991

This story published by The New York Times in 1991 explores the growth of "home equity theft," in which homeowners are duped into signing loans that are tied to their mortgage, using the home as collateral. Often, these people don't realize the costs or consequences. The article quotes Beasley Allen's Tom Methvin, who describes some of the cases he is fighting on behalf of the plaintiffs.