HOUSTON — A suit alleges the spouse of a former chemical company worker developed Mesothelioma due to her years of exposure to her husband's clothing which contained asbestos fibers.
HOUSTON — A cook who worked on various tankers for Conoco Phillips and Polar claims his exposure to benzene, gasoline and other hazardous chemicals caused his cancer diagnosis.
A Texas appeals has ruled in favor of a Texas fuel distributor sued by the family of a high school student who purchased synthetic marijuana at a Houston convenience store.
FORT WORTH – Last January, an appellate court heard arguments on whether ExxonMobil can use Texas courts to pursue counter-litigation against the public officials and private lawyers who teamed up to sue the oil industry in California over the alleged effects of climate change.
Global law firm Reed Smith this month hosted its 5th annual Energy & Commodities Conference to discuss the latest events, issues and trends impacting the energy industry.
HOUSTON – Presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke grabbed a myriad of headlines last month by proposing to spend $5 trillion in an effort to combat climate change.
What garnered little attention from the media, however, was a single sentence in the “guarantee net-zero emissions” part of O’Rourke’s plan: “Enforcing our laws to hold polluters accountable, including for their historical actions or crimes.”
HOUSTON – The Bates Law Firm in San Antonio has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a Karnes County man who claims that he was a victim of a flash fire at a ConocoPhillips Co. production facility in adjacent DeWitt County, recent Harris County District Court records show.
FORT WORTH – Texas justices will soon decide whether California municipalities took aim at Texas-based free speech by bringing climate change lawsuits against ExxonMobil, a Texas company, in California courts.
FORT WORTH – California municipalities took aim at Texas-based speech by filing “baseless” climate change lawsuits and a Texas trial court was right to exercise personal jurisdiction over them, according to ExxonMobil’s recently filed appellate brief.
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) – The top lawyers of 15 states are again asking a federal judge to reject the legal strategy used by public officials and the private attorneys with whom they’ve teamed to sue the energy industry over alleged effects of climate change.
HOUSTON – ConocoPhillips Co. has won a contract dispute over a drilling project after a state appeals court found that a drop in oil prices isn’t a natural or man-made disaster.
AUSTIN – On April 4, the Texas House Insurance Committee advanced House Bill 1774, a consumer protection bill that implements what one group is calling “common-sense accountability measures to stop rampant weather-related lawsuit abuse, while preserving the strongest protections in the nation for property insurance consumers.”
