Toyota proposes settlement of more than $1 billion in sudden unintended acceleration cases
Toyota Motor Corp has agreed to a $1.1 billion charge to settle hundreds of U.S. consumer claims related to sudden unintended acceleration in its vehicles.
Jury awards verdict of $700,000 for Auburn area teacher hit by vehicle in crosswalk
On September 13, 2012, a Lee County jury found in favor of an Auburn area teacher who was seriously injured in a collision that occurred on South College Street at the intersection of South Donohue Drive in Auburn, Alabama. The jury awarded Mrs. Bell $550,000 in compensatory damages and $150,000 in punitive damages.
Beasley Allen secures $5.1 million verdict for woman who developed breast cancer after taking Prempro
A federal jury in Salt Lake City, Utah awarded $5.1 million to plaintiff Toshiko Okuda in a Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) case after hearing four weeks of testimony regarding the link between hormone replacement drugs and breast cancer. The jury determined that the HRT drug Prempro, manufactured by Wyeth, caused the plaintiff’s’ breast cancer and […]
Beasley Allen Reaches $1M Settlement for Auto Crash Survivor
Beasley Allen’s Montgomery personal injury lawyers reached a $1 million policy limits settlement with Amtech LLC of Lowndes County, Alabama, for client Seng Bouasisavat, who was seriously injured when involved in a car crash in a company vehicle in which she was carpooling. On Jan 18, 2010, Seng and two others were riding as paying […]
Scaffolding Company Pays $1.5 Million to Settle Construction Worker’s On-the-Job Injury
Beasley Allen on-the-job injury lawyers secured a $1.5 million settlement against Scaffolding Concepts LLC on behalf of Johnny Huffman, a construction worker who suffered catastrophic injuries in an accident on a multiple-story-high scaffolding. Huffman’s employer, Stone & Webster Construction Services LLC, leased scaffolding from Scaffolding Concepts so that its employees could make repairs at an […]
Beasley Allen attorney secures $2.3 million jury verdict for plaintiffs harmed by landfill
LEE COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA – (April 2, 2012) Beasley Allen attorney William E. Hopkins, Jr., along with co-counsel Gary Poliakoff, secured a $2.3 million verdict from a South Carolina jury on behalf of Bishopville area residents harmed by a huge landfill in Lee County. The jury found in favor of the plaintiffs against Lee County Landfill SC LLC, a division of waste management company Republic Services, holding the company responsible for “nuisance landfill odors that affect people’s enjoyment of their property.”
Trial Court awards $38.2 million to the State of Mississippi in Beasley Allen Medicaid fraud lawsuit
MONTGOMERY, ALA. (September 2, 2011) – Today Judge Thomas L. Zebert found in favor of the State of Mississippi in its case against pharmaceutical company Sandoz, Inc. in the Chancery Court of Rankin County, Mississippi, and awarded a total verdict of $38,191, 427.00. The case, Mississippi Medicaid Pharmaceutical Average Wholesale Price Litigation (Master Docket No. 65586-65632, 66312, 66313, 66314) involves allegations that Sandoz caused to be published inflated “Average Wholesale Prices” (AWPs) for the drugs manufactured by Sandoz, which resulted in the Mississippi Division of Medicaid (DOM) reimbursing pharmacies at an inflated price, all allegedly in violation of the Mississippi Consumer Protection Act; the Mississippi Medicaid Fraud Control act and common law fraud. Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood authorized the filing of these lawsuits against the pharmaceutical companies and Beasley Allen attorneys W. Daniel “Dee” Miles, III and Clay Barnett, along with former Mississippi Governor Ronnie Musgrove from Copeland, Cook, Taylor and Bush tried the three-week trial in April.
Beasley Allen clients say BP oil spill, dispersants ruined health
Beasley Allen attorneys are representing at least 200 clients who claim they fell ill after being exposed to oil from BP’s Deepwater Horizon spill and the chemical dispersants cleanup crews dumped into the Gulf of Mexico in an effort to break down the sludgy crude. Of these plaintiffs, three spoke recently with the Montgomery Advertiser about the hardships they continue to face more than a year after the oil disaster first erupted.
Jury awards $1.18 million verdict for Beasley Allen plaintiff in business fraud case
A Charleston County jury awarded $1,189,408 to Plaintiff Clifford Hansen, after concluding he had been excluded by advisors from a business transaction he originally developed MONTGOMERY, ALA. (March 22, 2011) – A Charleston County, South Carolina, jury awarded $1,189,408 to Plaintiff Clifford Hansen after determining he had been unfairly excluded in a business purchase that […]
Class Action Settlement Involving Unearned Premiums For Credit Insurance
<p>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.</p>
Beasley Allen settles Vioxx suits for $4.85 billion
In Nov. 2007, drugmaker Merck & Co. announced it would pay $4.85 billion to resolve claims that anti-inflammatory medication, Vioxx, caused heart attacks, strokes and even death. In May 1999, the FDA approved Vioxx based on studies of approximately 5,000 patients. The study suggested Vioxx worked by blocking an enzyme linked to pain and swelling. […]
Beasley Allen Law Firm Settles Wrongful Death Lawsuit
Our firm recently settled a wrongful death case involving a beautiful 18-year old young lady, Keely Griffin. She was a passenger in a Mitsubishi Montero Sport which was being driven by her best friend and they were returning home from spring break. Keely was properly wearing her seatbelt and had reclined the seat to rest on the trip home.
