Beasley Allen, along with Dagney Johnson-Walker, a Birmingham lawyer filed suit in November on behalf of the City of Birmingham against various sub-prime lenders including Wells Fargo, Regions Bank and Countrywide. The suit contends that the companies have violated the Fair Housing Act (FHA) by participating in predatory lending practices. The lawsuit also alleges the lenders violated other state laws and have profited by their wrongdoing.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a $35.6 million judgment against Family Dollar Stores Inc. originally handed down by a Tuscaloosa, Ala., federal jury in 2006. The jury said the company violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) by wrongly classifying employees as store managers in order to deny them overtime pay.

Montgomery, Ala. - Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C., announced Dec. 11 that shareholder W. Daniel "Dee" Miles was selected as the firm's "Litigator of the Year." The annual recognition is presented to the attorney who demonstrates exceptional professional skill throughout the course of the year and best represents the firm's ideal of "helping those who need it most."

So how much do you think your life is worth? $100M? $20M? $420? According to a the IVEY MEMO, the value of your life is $200,000. Evidently, GM saved over $250M by letting a few hundred people burn to death in their cars.

David P. Sloane, speaking on behalf of the AARP as Senior Vice President for Government Relations and Advocacy, voiced the agency's support for Alabama's pending Average Wholesale Price (AWP) litigation against 72 pharmaceutical companies.

Alabama Medicaid Commissioner Carol Steckel, chair of the Executive Committee of the National Association of State Medicaid Directors (NASMD), has issued a "national alert" memo to all state Medicaid agencies on the drug-pricing fraud cases filed in Alabama by Attorney General Troy King. Steckel is urging all of her fellow Medicaid directors to follow the Alabama cases for their nationwide impact on prescription drug prices.

MONTGOMERY, ALA. - After winning three cases against drug manufacturers, the State of Alabama has requested that the 69 companies in the remaining lawsuits be settled.  Initially, the State Medicaid Agency sued 72 drug manufacturers for falsely reporting reimbursement drug prices to the State.  Two companies settled with the State.  The three companies that have been tried have each been found guilty of fraudulent conduct by Montgomery County juries.

MONTGOMERY, ALA - Jere Beasley, founding shareholder of Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C., announced this morning Alabama Attorney General Troy King has put 69 pharmaceutical companies accused of defrauding Alabama's Medicaid system on notice they have 30 days to settle or be brought to trial.

The jury reached a decision Tuesday afternoon in the fraud lawsuit brought by the state against two drug companies. The jury awarded the state a little more than $33,000,000 in compensatory damages from Novartis Pharmaceutical Company and almost $81,000,000 in compensatory damages from GlaxoSmithKline also known as GSK.

(MONTGOMERY)-Attorney General Troy King today announced a second major victory in his litigation against drug companies for massive overcharges to the Alabama Medicaid Agency.  A jury in Montgomery County Circuit Court returned a verdict in favor of the State of Alabama, finding defendants, GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. liable for a total of $114,247,233, of which $80,989,539 is from GlaxoSmithKline and $33,257,694 is from Novartis.