Mississippi attorney, Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, used a mix of bare-knuckle tactics and country-lawyer charm to extract billion-dollar settlements from cigarette...
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has reinstated penalties against a firm accused of violating asbestos management rules in the renovation of...
Craigslist is not liable for discriminatory housing ads posted on its Web site, a federal appeals court has ruled. The...
Federal officials issued trailers to Hurricane Katrina victims even though some workplace safety tests detected high levels of formaldehyde at...
The state of Louisiana must pay $6.3 million plus interest to a wreck victim severely injured when ejected from the...
Citing a new national study showing that major roads in Oklahoma’s metro centers are among the worst in the U.S.,...
A San Francisco jury awarded $20 million to a couple who was alledgedly exposed to asbestos by construction materials sold...
Lt. Gov. David Paterson, who will take over as New York’s governor following Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s dramatic fall from power...
In 2007, Texas insurers recorded one of their most profitable years of the decade, prompting some consumer advocates to call...
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist signed an executive order Thursday, authorizing an emergency declaration for Columbia County and Lake City in...