A suit claiming a man suffered from food poisoning after dining at a fast food restaurant has been dismissed. Milton Hill filed a lawsuit March 20, 2014, in the Jefferson County District Court against BG Foods Inc. and Ree Inc., doing business as McDonald’s, citing violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act. Court records show that the parties filed an agreed motion for dismissal with prejudice on Oct. 7.
The equity partners at the Provost Umphrey Law Firm in Beaumont recently filed a motion to abate a lawsuit brought by a their former colleague, Paul ‘Chip’ Ferguson.
Former Provost Umphrey attorneys who departed to start their own firm have captured their second jury verdict since parting ways a couple of months ago.
The equity partners at the Provost Umphrey recently answered a lawsuit brought by Paul ‘Chip’ Ferguson, asserting their former partner took advantage of firm founder Walter Umphrey and his ailing mental condition.
In February 2013, the widow of Ernest Lewis filed a lawsuit against ExxonMobil and Mobil Oil Refining, claiming the companies negligently exposed him to the hazardous chemical benzene. On Sept. 22 a joint motion for dismissal with prejudice was filed in the case, stating the settlement of the matter is solely for claims for the recovery of punitive damages.
The Provost Umphrey Law Firm and its partners, excluding the firm’s current managing partner, have sued several attorneys who left to start their own firm.
A four-day injury trial at the Beaumont courthouse ended with a jury award of nearly $7.5 million in damages, according to one of the plaintiff’s attorneys who tried the case.
For a quarter of a century, attorney Paul ‘Chip’ Ferguson Jr. spent his days working at the Provost Umphrey law firm in Beaumont, until the current president of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association booted him off the premises under threat of armed escort, according to a recent lawsuit.
An outside judge has been called in to hear a lawsuit brought by the Provost Umphrey against a former equity partner, attorney Paul ‘Chip’ Ferguson Jr. Ferguson resigned from the Beaumont law firm on Aug. 3 and then filed a lawsuit, which was immediately sealed, against PU the following day in Jefferson County District Court.
Attorney Paul ‘Chip’ Ferguson Jr. has non-suited Provost Umphrey from his lawsuit, but that doesn’t mean the drama is over between the Beaumont law firm and its former equity partner.
Some of Beaumont’s leading plaintiffs attorneys, including the current president of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, were at the Jefferson County courthouse Tuesday afternoon for a hearing in a lawsuit against the Provost Umphrey Law Firm.
More than half the attorneys at Provost Umphrey in Beaumont are being recognized among the top lawyers in the nation in the 2016 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. According to an Aug. 17 press release, 14 PU attorneys were named, with PU partner Bryan O.
Jury selection began Aug. 17 in a lawsuit brought by a Port Arthur man who sued the driver he claims failed to keep a proper lookout and struck his vehicle.
