GRETNA – A local law firm is being sued for alleged mishandling of property records in a divorce hearing and allegedly advising a client to declare bankruptcy.
NEW ORLEANS – An Alabama man has been ordered to return hundreds of thousands of dollars he received in an alleged scheme to defraud the claims program in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill program.
Michael J. Truncale, a partner in the law firm of Orgain, Bell & Tucker LLP in Beaumont, recently received a Diploma in International Arbitration from the Chartered Institute of Arbitration (CIArb), and was made a Fellow in the CIArb.
A man is suing Lowe's after allegedly falling on a slippery floor. Willing Morning filed a lawsuit against Lowe's Home Centers on Aug. 19 in the Galveston Division of the Southern District of Texas. Morning claims he was at the Lowe's store July 1 when he slipped and fell on a substance left on the floor. He accuses the company of negligence for allegedly failing to remove the substance from the floor
Belief can be a powerful thing. Sometimes, the law will, under certain circumstances, show deference to that belief, such as the individual who recently persuaded the Department of Motor Vehicles to allow him to have his driver’s license photo taken while wearing a spaghetti strainer on his head (he claimed to be a practicing “Pastafarian”).
According to the latest poll by the Pew Research Center, lawyers rank dead last among 10 professions for contributions to society—behind the military, teachers, doctors, scientists, engineers, the clergy, artists, journalists and even business executives.
A Mississippi woman has filed a lawsuit against the manufacturers of her hernia mesh product claiming that it was dangerous due to defects in design and manufacture.
Claiming that his knee replacement device was defective, Fred T. Long Sr. and his wife, Joetta, filed a lawsuit against the device’s manufacturers Zimmer Inc., Zimmer Holdings Inc. and Zimmer Orthopaedic Surgical Products Inc. on Feb. 26 in Beaumont Division of the Eastern District of Texas.
On the eve of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations in Dallas, May 8-18, more than 15 Texas congressional leaders, including Rep. Kay Granger (R-Fort Worth) and Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Dallas) wrote to U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk urging Mexico's inclusion in this promising trade agreement.
Gary Stallworth, a dishwasher who blames his skin problems on inadequate training, has now struck out three times, as a higher court recently ruled that a lower court and an arbitrator were justified in dismissing his claims.
While undergoing chemotherapy treatments to combat breast cancer, a Beaumont woman claims her employer decided she was no longer needed and terminated her.
Valorie Davenport After six days of deliberations, the medical-malpractice trial of Thompson vs. Dr. James Woodruff et al came to an end Friday, Jan. 30, as jurors found no wrongdoing on the part of the three defendant doctors.
For almost two months, the water-cooler topic around the Jefferson County Courthouse has been the bizarre medical malpractice trial carrying on in Judge Donald Floyd's 172nd District Court.
