Legal Headlines

January 23, 2008 1:19 PM

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.



January 23, 2008 1:07 PM

Five plaintiffs claim they suffered heart attacks, strokes or other serious injuries and economic damages as a result of taking the pain-reliever Celebrex in a suit filed April 5 in Madison County Circuit Court.



January 23, 2008 1:03 PM

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



January 23, 2008 12:56 PM

Recently, in what was called a slightly mixed verdict, and with the jurors giving Merck Co. a rebuke saying the company should have known more about the hazards of Vioxx.



January 23, 2008 12:51 PM

The Bibb County woman who watched her husband and son die last September in a Calera air show crash has filed a wrongful death suit against the plane's owner and its late pilot's estate.



January 23, 2008 11:34 AM

Eufaula native Tom Methvin, managing shareholder and president of Beasley Allen (a Montgomery-based law firm) was recently featured in the Montgomery Advertiser.



January 23, 2008 8:41 AM

The pending Merck Vioxx settlement appears to be on track, as more than 95 percent of possible Vioxx claimants have signed on to Merck's $4.85 million settlement offer.



January 22, 2008 2:27 PM

A New Orleans home owner whose home was destroyed during Hurricane Katrina has won an appeal against the home owner's insurance company that denied his claim.



January 22, 2008 2:23 PM

A settlement has been reached involving theft by an insurance agent employed by Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America.



January 22, 2008 2:06 PM

Beasley Allen has written on a practice existing in Corporate America known as "dead peasant" insurance. This is the label put on a practice where an employee takes out life insurance policies on their employees without approval of the employees.