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• Contingency Fees in Business Litigation

  Billy Cunningham | March 13, 2009 10:53 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  Last week I wrote a blog on labor and materialmen liens and suggesting to contractors and suppliers that they protect themselves before getting into construction project. What happens in other...

• EEOC Whistleblower Protection - The Supreme Court Says Yes To His Employer

  Pete Mackey | February 05, 2009 5:33 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  A unanimous Supreme Court held last week that an employee who provides information to his employer as part of a discrimination investigation is protected against retaliation for doing so. While...

• Alabama Truck Driver Pleads Guilty in Deaths of Guardsmen

  Chrissie Cole | February 15, 2008 1:47 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  A Citronelle truck driver accused of killing two members of the Alaska National Guard, in a 2006 truck accident, has plead guilty to charges accusing him of driving while under the influence of drugs.The man, 49, of Citronelle entered a guilty plea, Thursday, to four counts of driving under the influence. The trial started on Wednesday in Perry County Circuit Court.Prosecutors said an 18-wheeler...

• Scary Halloween Toy Recalls

  Courtney Mills | October 29, 2007 4:12 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  A University of Ohio professor and some assistants have uncovered some scary results about toys that are targeted for Halloween this year: shocking levels of lead content. In original reporting by CBS news, Professor Jeffrey Weidenhammer and his staff have uncovered dangerous levels of lead in a toy called "Ugly teeth." The fake plastic teeth aren't only ugly, but have about 100 times the...

• MRI Gadolinium Contrast Agents Get Black Box Warning

  Courtney Mills | October 02, 2007 9:45 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  The U.S. FDA indicated that it would start adding its strongest 'black box' warnings to gadolinium based contrast agents used in MRIs by May of next year. There are five different types of gadolinium based contrast agents, and the FDA has evidence enough to suggest a causal connection between the agents and a skin condition called nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF) in patients with impaired...

• Two fatal train crashes in two days on same route

  Staff Writer | July 19, 2007 1:11 PM | 1 CommentMobile, AL

  In a tragic story out of Florida, two train-vehicle collisions resulted in injury and death on the same Amtrack route just two days apart.Forbes.com reported the details of both accidents involving Amtrack trains en route from Miami to New York. On Monday four people died in a car that reportedly drove around another car and barriers into the path of a train full of passengers in Lakeland,...

• Teens injured in pick-up truck accident

  Staff Writer | May 28, 2007 10:07 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  A report from WVAU-TV says a teenager who was riding in the bed of a pick-up truck is in critical condition after being thrown from the vehicle in an accident Friday night.There were two other teens thrown from the pick-up truck's bed when it was struck by another vehicle after the driver of the pick-up ran a red light. This sad occurrence is yet another example of the high incidence of injury...

• Two men die in weekend car accidents

  Staff Writer | January 23, 2007 10:41 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  Two Mobile County men died in separate one-car accidents over the weekend. A report from The Press-Register Monday details both tragic motor vehicle crashes.The first accident, on Saturday, involved a 1999 Chevrolet pickup truck that ran off Tanner Williams Road, rolled over and struck a tree. A passenger who was not wearing his seatbelt was thrown from the vehicle and died. Two other passengers...

• Lawsuit over defective hernia repair patch

  Staff Writer | December 28, 2006 1:31 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  A law firm out of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, filed suit on behalf of a client earlier this month against Davol, Inc., maker of the Composix Kugel Mesh Patch used in hernia repair surgeries. The plaintiff claims that he experienced severe abdominal pain after his hernia repair surgery and had to undergo bowel dissection surgery to have the defective hernia repair patch removed.The news...

• Tort Reform - As Seen In The Movies

  Pete Mackey | September 23, 2009 8:36 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  Remember the opening scene in the movie 10? The elderly woman sitting in a chair against the wall lets one loose, whereupon the sleeping dog next to her bolts out of the room. As Dudley Moore...