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Beasley Allen has filed a lawsuit against MindGeek and its affiliated entities on behalf of an Alabama mother who claims the information technology giant posted videos of her 12-year-old son’s sexual abuse on its massive pornography platform Pornhub. Videos on the site depicting the child’s molestation have been viewed more than 188,000 times worldwide and […]
Beasley Allen Atlanta-based lawyer Parker Miller and Jonathan Hayes of Atlanta law firm Goldstein Hayes & Lina secured a $17.25 million settlement on behalf of the family of a 54-year-old woman killed in a tragic tractor-trailer accident. The lawsuit settled just before the trial was to begin in November. The victim was driving on a […]
Beasley Allen’s mesothelioma attorney Charlie Stern secured a $5 million settlement on behalf of a 56-year-old woman diagnosed with mesothelioma due to secondary asbestos exposure. Our client’s father had worked for the company for nearly 30 years in various positions, during which he was exposed to the known carcinogen. Our client’s father worked with and […]
Beasley Allen attorney Ben Locklar filed a lawsuit on behalf of families whose children were exposed to E. coli bacteria after consuming Chicken McNuggets Happy Meals at the McDonald’s in Ashland, Alabama. Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) investigators inspected the restaurant and found numerous serious violations and an environment ripe for cross-contamination. The lawsuit […]
Owners and occupiers of establishments are responsible for ensuring their premises are reasonably safe and secure from foreseeable dangers. This month, we are discussing hotels, where guests (and even staff) can be especially vulnerable to dangerous people or conditions on the property. Indeed, these establishments encourage their guests to let their guard down, so they […]
Joseph VanZandt leads the firm’s Social Media Litigation Team, handling cases against Meta Platforms, Inc., Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, and other social media companies like Snapchat and TikTok. The team represents several hundred families across the U.S. accusing the social media giants of knowingly exploiting adolescents for profit. On Aug. 1, Beasley Allen filed […]
In August, a new law paved the way for Camp Lejeune water contamination claims to move forward. Since then, the U.S. Navy reports that roughly 5,000 people with cancer or other health conditions who lived or worked at the North Carolina Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune and were exposed to contaminated water have filed administrative […]
Atlanta personal injury lawyer Ben Keen recently filed two lawsuits in a Georgia federal court. Both lawsuits involve a defendant tractor-trailer driver rear-ending an unsuspecting plaintiff in stand-still traffic. Both of the cases resulted in life-threatening injuries to the plaintiffs. Ben describes one of the cases in further detail below and explains some of the […]
A hardworking young man with his whole life ahead of him suffered a painful and debilitating amputation injury while working at Prairie Farms Dairy in Birmingham, Alabama. The injury was unnecessary and easily preventable. It occurred because dangerous machinery at the dairy plant lacked the proper guarding to keep workers safe. Cases like these define […]
Beasley Allen lawyer Wyatt Montgomery practices in our Personal Injury and Product Liability Section and is based out of our Mobile, Alabama, office. Wyatt filed a lawsuit against shipbuilder Austal USA on behalf of a contract worker seriously injured while working on one of the company’s dry docks. Wyatt brought the lawsuit under U.S. general […]
When retired Navy nuclear submarine captain and judge Albert Howard, a Russell County, Alabama, native, learned he had mesothelioma, he called Beasley Allen. He was familiar with the firm and firm founder Jere Beasley’s career in Alabama politics and law. “They were local and well regarded. So, I called them. Little did I know I […]
Lawsuits blaming retailers for selling generic acetaminophen without warning pregnant women that it could increase the risk for autism and ADHD in their children have been consolidated in a multidistrict litigation (MDL) in New York. In an Oct. 5 order, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) assigned at least 65 lawsuits against Walmart Inc., […]
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