Legal Headlines

Product Liability

THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS | February 5, 2009

The family of an Alabama pilot who crashed and died in Louisiana last month has sued the helicopter maker in Montgomery federal court.




Environmental

DISCOVER MAGAZINE | February 2, 2009

A chemical found in common household products and cosmetics has been linked to a decrease in fertility in women, according to a new study.




Personal Injury

BIRMINGHAM NEWS | January 30, 2009

A lawsuit has been filed against the firm that manages the Alabama's three veterans homes, charging negligence led to the death in 2007 of a resident in the William F. Green Veterans Home in Bay Minette.

 




Personal Injury

AL.COM | January 29, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) - The list of recalled peanut products linked to a national salmonella outbreak just keeps growing.




Personal Injury

WTVM 9 -TV | January 28, 2009

COLUMBUS, GA (WTVM) - As Auburn University student Taylor Jones returned home to Montgomery after being released from the hospital this weekend, the Lee County District Attorney and the Auburn Police Department issued a warrant Monday morning for the fraternity member accused of assaulting him.




Product Liability

EUFAULA TRIBUNE | January 27, 2009

Beasley Allen files suit for family in helicopter crash.




Community

THE GADSDEN TIMES | January 26, 2009

At a time when the United States is being led by the first black and fifth youngest president, the most influential Alabamians remain largely white, older and male.




Personal Injury

SELMA TIMES-JOURNAL | January 26, 2009

A lawsuit has been filed in the Circuit Court for Lee County, Alabama, on behalf of an Auburn University student who was injured at a campus fraternity house on Jan. 11.




Personal Injury

WSFA TV 12 | January 26, 2009

AUBURN, AL (WSFA) - It's been two weeks since a fight at an Auburn University fraternity house left one freshman with severe injuries. Now the fight has moved to the courtroom. Taylor G. Jones was critically injured and rushed to a Georgia hospital after someone beat him at the Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity house on January 11.Now, the Montgomery-based law firm of Beasley Allen has stepped into the fray filing a complaint on Jones' behalf against Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity, the Auburn chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon, the Alabama Alpha chapter and a fraternity member named Zachary James Quillen.




Consumer Fraud

JERE BEASLEY REPORT | January 23, 2009

Our firm recently settled a class action lawsuit involving refunds of unearned premiums for persons who purchased credit insurance using a single premium but who paid off the insured loan early.