Former Alabama Lt. Gov. Jere Beasley, one of the nation's most successful trial lawyers and one of Alabama's most influential Democrats, today endorsed U.S. Rep. Artur Davis for governor.
When the bottom fell out of several Regions Morgan Keegan mutual funds in 2007, billions of dollars in value belonging to shocked investors quickly evaporated. Law firms throughout the country began signing up investors to represent. One of those firms is Montgomery, Ala.-based Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles PC.
DECATUR, Alabama, May 31, 2009 (ENS) - High levels of toxic perfluorochemicals found in agricultural soils near Decatur have led federal government scientists to investigate whether the chemicals have entered the human food chain and contaminated meat and milk. They already have been found in several private drinking water wells.
CARTHAGE, Mo. - An attorney for a Carthage resident suing the owner of the Renewable Environmental Solutions plant say they will file a motion in federal bankruptcy court in New York to lift a stay that has stopped the suit in its tracks.
BAY MINETTE, Ala. - Hollis Thorn served in the Navy during the 1940's, then became a baptist minister. After his retirement, Thorn was stricken with diabetes.
MUNCIE - For years, the owners of a former gasoline station failed to warn a neighbor that the ground water and soil beneath his house was contaminated with gasoline, a lawsuit alleges.
Attorney Jere Beasley is in federal court this week, representing Alabama in its civil suit alleging that generic drug producer Sandoz Inc. set out to cheat the state's Medicaid program.
The AM Law Daily speaks on Jere Beasley's recent win against Sandoz.
Colonial BancShares is facing at least six lawsuits alleging that the bank purposefully didn't disclose pertinent material when it announced it had been declared eligible for federal bailout money.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A voice recorder captured a "loud noise" in the cockpit of a helicopter shortly before it plunged into a Louisiana swamp last month, killing eight people, federal investigators said in a report released Thursday.
