A total of six new lawsuits against insurance companies over Hurricane Ike damage claims were filed in Jefferson County District Court, March 28-April 1, 2011.
Mostyn The settlement of the Hurricane Ike claims demonstrates that more oversight is needed for the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association, according to a report from a state legal reform group.
A total of five new lawsuits against insurance companies over Hurricane Ike damage claims were filed in Jefferson County District Court, Feb. 14-19, 2011.
A notice of intent to depose the plaintiff has been filed in the personal injury case of Troy Lakey, an air conditioner installer who sued his employer after hurting his back.
Beach houses reduced to pilings and slabs by Hurricane Ike. Sixty-four attorneys from Southeast Texas received an estimated $44 million from settlement agreements with the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association, according to recent documents from TWIA.
The Ninth Court of Appeals of Texas recently issued an opinion forcing a plaintiff, who sued her insurance company following Hurricane Ike, into arbitration.
A total of four new lawsuits against insurance companies over Hurricane Ike damage claims were filed in Jefferson County District Court, Sept. 2, 2010.
A Jefferson County man has filed suit against the tow truck driver he says struck him as the vehicle in which he was sitting attempted to make a left-hand turn.
While the U.S. economy may have sputtered a bit last year, Southeast Texas trial lawyers kept busy in 2009, filing 2,601 new lawsuits in Jefferson County District Court � upping their '08 totals by roughly 30 percent.
Bob Wortham Consolidating the hundreds to possibly thousands of hurricane suits piling up in Jefferson County District Court into a multidistrict litigation (MDL) will save money and time for all parties involved, says one county judge.
Responsible for filing around a thousand hurricane suits throughout Texas, the Mostyn Law Firm added a Jefferson County official to its list of mounting clients recently when it filed a suit on behalf of a local judge.
Local attorney Steve Mostyn, who flooded the Jefferson County District Clerk's Office with hundreds of Hurricane Rita lawsuits in recent months, is now spearheading a class-action suit against Allstate. Mostyn is claiming the insurance company disseminated misleading statements to the public regarding the statute of limitations for filing Rita cases.
NOAA image of Hurricane Rita It's not common knowledge, said a Jefferson County District clerk earlier this week, but Hurricane Rita struck twice -- once in September 2005 and then again in the clerk's office.