Beasley Allen names attorney Chris Glover as newest shareholder

Montgomery based law firm Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C., one of the country's leading firms involved in civil litigation on behalf of claimants, has named lawyer Chris Glover as its newest shareholder. Glover, who practices in the firm's Personal Injury Section, has dedicated his career to representing injured individuals and their families in a wide range of serious injury and death claims, including those that were a result of defective products, car, commercial truck and workplace accidents.

Preemption of state law undermines your legal rights

There is an effort currently underway to remove the rights of consumers to seek justice through the court system when they are injured by a product or drug. The issue is preemption, and it would essentially provide companies with immunity from lawsuits despite negligent action on their part.

Beasley Allen to represent City of Montgomery Police Department

MONTGOMERY, ALA. - Beasley Allen law firm will represent the City of Montgomery and its Police Department in an effort to recover money spent for new video surveillance equipment that failed to function properly. The equipment, which included surveillance cameras mounted in police patrol cars and related support software, was purchased from North Carolina-based Integrian.

Beasley Allen named to Plaintiff's Hot List

Beasley Allen has been selected for inclusion on The National Law Journal's 2008 Plaintiffs' Hot List. The list is the magazine's "unscientific survey" of the litigation scene since the summer of 2007, and features exemplary firms that devote at least half of their resources to plaintiffs' work, and which have achieved at least one significant win during that period. Only 15 firms in the United States were selected to appear on the 2008 list.

Civil Rights Icon Johnnie Carr, 97, Dies

Johnnie Carr, who joined childhood friend Rosa Parks in the historic Montgomery bus boycott and kept a busy schedule of civil rights activism up to her final days, has died. She was 97. Carr died Friday night [Feb. 22, 2008], said Baptist Health hospital spokeswoman Melody Ragland. She had been hospitalized after a stroke Feb. 11.

Settlement Involving Artifical Hip and Knee Makers Reached

Four of the nation's biggest makers of artificial hips and knees have agreed to pay a total of $311 million in penalties to settle federal accusations that they used fake consulting agreements and other tactics to get surgeons to use their products.

Congress Should Ban Mandatory Pre-Dispute Consumer Arbitration

Every person in the United States who has a credit card, buys a car, signs up for a cell-phone plan, or enters into any other kind of consumer transaction has a mandatory arbitration agreement that is binding on them if a dispute arises.

The Record of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is Anti-Worker and Anti-Consumer

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has become one of the strongest lobbying organizations in the country. They have their considerable influence in a number of areas. Without a doubt, one of these involves restricting the rights of American workers.

NAIC holds public hearing on arbitration

Jere Beasley spoke on the consumer's behalf at the public hearing on Arbitration Clauses in Insurance Contracts on Monday, March 10 in Atlanta, GA. The hearing was held in conjunction with the 2003 Nation Association of Insurance Commissioners Spring National Meeting.

Family owned business settled lawsuit

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - PikNik Products Company, Inc. has settled a lawsuit claiming wantonness, willful fraud, reckless and mistaken fraud, breach of contract and breach of warranty for $262,000.