The following cases categorized as "other injury or damage" were on the docket in the Harris County Civil Court on Feb. 16. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
GALVESTON — A League City couple is suing a Webster carpet and tiling company, alleging the plaintiffs paid for services that were either not fulfilled or fulfilled poorly.
NATCHEZ, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Two asbestos attorneys in Mississippi are appealing a federal jury's ruling that they committed fraud in litigation against Illinois Central Railroad.
WASHINGTON, D.C.�The U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (ILR) today presented Forman, Perry, Watkins, Krutz & Tardy LLP with the 2010 Outstanding Organization Award for its contribution to uncovering fraud and abuse in asbestos and silica litigation.
Jack As U.S. District Judge Janis Graham Jack plans her impending retirement in June 2011, local and national tort reform groups praise the impact she had behind the bench during her 17 year career as a federal judge.
NATCHEZ, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - A federal jury decided Monday that two Mississippi lawyers committed fraud against a railroad company they sued in a pair of asbestos lawsuits.
Peirce WHEELING, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - Despite an asbestos firm's wishes, a federal appellate court will allow several groups to file amicus briefs in a lawsuit against it.
Peirce RICHMOND (Legal Newsline) - CSX Transportation's appeal in a case alleging a Pittsburgh law firm conspired with a radiologist to fabricate an asbestos exposure claim is drawing attention from tort reform groups and asbestos expert witnesses.
McConnell PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Special from PublicNuisanceWire.com)- For nine years prospective federal judge nominee Jack McConnell battled paint makers with boundless powers he received from attorneys general he helped elect.
Harron WHEELING, W. Va. - Bridgeport, W.Va., radiologist Ray Harron doesn't want jurors in his federal civil fraud trial to learn that a Texas judge exposed his unreliable methods, that he pleaded the Fifth Amendment or that he lost his medical license in seven states.
Robreno PHILADELPHIA (Legal Newsline)- Serving in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, a federal judge is making a name for himself for his swift handling of a huge asbestos docket.
Harron Radiologist Ray Harron of Bridgeport, W. Va., swore he wouldn't pick a fight with a Texas judge who accused him of fabricating X-ray reports for asbestos lawyers, but he picked the fight anyway.
Ray Harron LEXINGTON, Miss. -- An embattled West Virginia radiologist, his son and others have been sued in Mississippi on racketeering and other charges related to an alleged scheme involving asbestos screenings for lawsuits across the nation.
Dr. Jay T. Segarra is a Mississippi Gulf coast resident. For almost a decade, Dr. Jay T. Segarra was considered the lung disease expert local plaintiffs lawyers called on to testify in their massive asbestos cases.
