One can applaud the decision of 136th District Court Judge Milton Shuffield to set aside a ridiculous million-dollar exemplary damages award against National Security Fire & Casualty and still wonder why he didn't do so sooner.
BROOKLYN, N.Y. – A prominent Texas attorney is representing two victims of Hurricane Sandy in a recently filed class action lawsuit against an insurance company and several associates, claiming they schemed to manipulate a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) program for profit.
Eight months following a Hurricane Ike trial from which the plaintiff’s attorneys reaped more than $348,000 in fees, the case has finally been dismissed.
Over the past year, the Southeast Texas Record has reported on the sizeable donations Houston attorney Steve Mostyn kept bestowing upon Charlie Crist, who unsuccessfully sought to return to the Florida governor’s mansion as a Democrat this year.
Following the conclusion of a Hurricane Ike trial, an exemplary damage award scored by the Mostyn Law Firm was sealed in order to facilitate mediation, says the Beaumont judge who presided over the trial
Earlier this year, U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn Jr. overturned a lower court’s decision to seal documents and testimony in the bankruptcy estimation trial of Garlock Sealing Technologies. He affirmed that a court is a public forum and that the public has the right to know the details of court settlements.
EDITOR'S NOTE: A previous version of this story incorrectly identified the plaintiff's attorney as Gregory Cox of the Mostyn Law Firm. The firm said Cox is not affiliated with the case.
In the final weeks leading up to Election Day, Houston plaintiff’s attorney Steve Mostyn pumped another half million dollars into the Florida governor’s race.
In one of Jefferson County's busiest civil courts, a Republican from Nederland is fighting to unseat a Democrat that has been on the bench for 25 years.
GALVESTON (Legal Newsline) – The law firm that profited the most from insurance suits in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike is funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars into the war chest of the former judge who presided over the lion’s share of the litigation.
