A past Southeast Texas media personality who left the area to pursue bluer oceans in Florida may come home soon, thanks to Beaumont justices granting Jennifer Gray's former employer Nexstar Broadcasting a new trial.
Minutes before they began deliberating, plaintiff's attorney Brett Thomas told jurors that if they didn't award his client $3.7 million for inadvertently sticking her hand in a rotary feeder, ExxonMobil executives would throw a party.
Claiming she was sold a home with a faulty foundation, Wendy Carbone is suing the person who sold her the home, Christopher Plaunty, and the person who owned the home before her, Brandon Barnhart.
Brent Coon & Associates attorney Tina Bradley has filed a suit against 14 defendants, alleging chemical companies like Union Carbide acted with tortious indifference by exposing her client to asbestos and that insurance companies like MetLife conspired to conceal the truth about the hazards of the mineral.
Banana prices aren't the only thing taking flight � Beaumont Justices recently granted a writ of mandamus directing 172nd District Judge Donald Floyd to transfer a Provost Umphrey suit and request for injunctive relief against Dole Food and its lawyers to Harris County.
Texas Supreme Court AUSTIN � Atofina Petrochemicals, which paid $5.75 million to the family of a man who drowned in oil at its refinery in Port Arthur, can recover every penny of it from Evanston Insurance Company, the Texas Supreme Court ruled June 13.
Dugas A battle royal between two lawyers ended with a victory for a Beaumont attorney when the Texas Ninth District Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's ruling in favor of Clay Dugas.
When a conveyor began spilling polyetheline pellets onto the floor, workers at ExxonMobil came up with modifications to the machine that solved the problem. But within hours, a contract worker had parts of her fingers sliced off while using the altered equipment.
After learning a church-run preschool had been cited by the state 35 times over the past three years, two fuming parents filed suit against Wesley United Methodist Church � alleging the "wrongdoers seem to like to 'talk the talk' of safety instead of actually 'walk that walk' to protect children."
A railroad employee claims it was his employer's responsibility to keep him from tripping over a mound of debris and has as a result filed suit against Kansas City Southern Railway.
Entergy was recently found not negligent in the automobile collision trial of Shayna Taylor vs. Entergy et al, which took place in Jefferson County Judge Gary Sanderson's 60th Judicial Court.
Judge Floyd A few weeks ago, Judge Donald Floyd granted plaintiff's attorney Glen Morgan's motion for a new trial against DuPont. Morgan claimed the jury must have gotten the verdict in favor of the chemical company wrong since the trial evidence showed so overwhelmingly that the plaintiff's mesothelioma was caused by his exposure to asbestos while working at DuPont.