Last February, the Southeast Texas Record reported on the trial of Roy Limbrick et al vs. Mariner Health Care Inc. (Green Acres Parkdale). The jurors sided with the children of Alice Limbrick, 94, and faulted the nursing home for the loss of Alice's legs, awarding the family $400,000 in damages.
Justice Hollis Horton Hurricane Rita killed Bertha Costello, but according to the Ninth District appeals court in Beaumont, it didn't transform her from homeowner to renter.
Brian Sutton The family of Earnest White Jr., a 60-year-old Beaumont man who was killed as he tried to cross Cardinal Drive on foot, settled a lawsuit against the city of Beaumont on Tuesday, Oct. 14.
City leaders in Galveston are faced with the enormous task of bringing their city back to life after Hurricane Ike. Now they are also faced with a lawsuit by a local attorney that accuses officials of allowing affluent and influential residents to pass through roadblocks and reenter the city, while denying entry to others.
(Legal Newsline) - Merck & Co. Inc. notched two major legal victories Thursday, with appeals courts in Texas and New Jersey tossing verdicts against the drugmaker involving the painkiller Vioxx.
Hundreds of cyclists are expected to roll out for the Spindletop Spin to benefit the Jefferson County Pro Bono Program on June 7. Last year's event, pictured, raised more than $25,000 to provide legal services to the needy. It's time again for hundreds of cyclists to take the roads, but they won't only be riding for fun and exercise but also to raise money for a program that provides free legal services to those in need.
Minutes before the start of a civil trial in a Beaumont court, jurors were told that they don't have to go home but they can't stay here, as the case of Jessie Burkes vs. Joseph Victorian was settled on Wednesday, May 28.
A Vidor couple is suing a real estate company and its agents after discovering what they claim is evidence their new house had been damaged by previous fire, a fact the couple says was not disclosed to them before the purchase.
A local insurance agency was recently ordered by Jefferson County jurors to pay a Nederland couple nearly $47,000 in damages for failing to obtain windstorm coverage for them before Hurricane Rita struck the Golden Triangle area.
TEXARKANA, Ark. � When asked why former Computer Science Corporation senior counsel Kirby Cronin has not appeared at court-ordered depositions for the Colossus class action suit, a company official told the judge that CSC no longer has power over Cronin.
TEXARKANA -- A worker for a concrete company claims his employer told him to adjust a power saw in an improper manner to get his work done faster. When the manipulation caused a severe injury, the man sued his employer.
Mark Sokolow The city of Port Arthur and its economic development corporation can't seem to distinguish who's in charge. And now because the left hand hired a marketing consultant without the right hand's permission, the city's attorney has spent the last week in court.
After an appeals court overturned an arbitration decision late last year, the city of Beaumont and its local firefighters union finally came to an agreement Feb. 6 with the approval of a four-year contract.
Clay Dugas Jurors sided with the children of Alice Limbrick, 94, on Monday, Feb. 4, and blamed the Green Acres Parkdale nursing home for the loss of Alice's legs and awarded the family $400,000 in damages.
Mark Sokolow The city of Port Arthur and its economic development corporation can't seem to distinguish who's in charge. And now because the left hand hired a marketing consultant without the right hand's permission, the city will spend the next week in court.
Clay Dugas Johnny Limbrick testified on Wednesday, Jan. 29, that it "smelled like an animal had died" inside his mother's room during her stay at a local nursing home.
Clay Dugas The children of 94-year-old Alice Limbrick claim their mother's legs had to amputated four years ago because of negligent care during her stay at the Green Acres Parkdale nursing home.
Findwhat.com TEXARKANA, ARK. -- In the Miller County, Ark., 'click-fraud' class action case, plaintiffs and defendant Findwhat.com (MIVA, Inc.) announced recently, that they have reached terms of class settlement and believe settlement is imminent.
Arbitrator Zane Lumbley of Monroe, Wash., abandoned his neutrality so outrageously for the benefit of Beaumont firefighters that he hurt every municipal employee in Texas.
Facing more than 25,000 individual Vioxx lawsuits and several hundred class action cases, drugmaker Merck has agreed to settle out of court for $4.85 billion.