Ronald Larsen, the elderly man who was neglected to the point that cancer consumed nearly half his face, has died.
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.
The billions that state officials had once coveted from the largest jury verdict in Alabama history is now a scrap over millions.
Whether staff at an Evansville nursing home provided appropriate care for an 86-year-old woman who ultimately died is the central question in an ongoing trial in Vanderburgh Circuit Court this week.
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.
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.
A settlement has been reached involving theft by an insurance agent employed by Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America.
The state of Alabama will receive almost $7 million from a settlement with two drug manufacturers, who were defendants in a lawsuit the state filed against more than 70 pharmaceutical manufacturers.
As deadlines near on the settlement Merck & Co. has proposed for cases related to its Vioxx painkiller, it looks highly likely enough plaintiffs will sign on to seal the deal.
A state court judge in California has tentatively accepted the settlement of class action lawsuits on behalf of about 800,000 Ford Explorer owners whose vehicles lost value because of their perceived rollover danger.
