Despite their request for monetary damages for mental anguish, physical pain and future medical expenses, a pair of plaintiffs in a car wreck trial received a modest award of $15,000 limited to past medical expenses.
It only took a few hours for Southeast Texas jurors in the first trial over Yamaha Rhino all-terrain vehicle rollovers to return a swift ruling of no negligence -- a verdict in the company's favor that could have far reaching effects.
What could prove to be a landmark case, a dozen Orange County residents have been tasked to decide if Yamaha Motor Co. cut costs and negligently placed a defective off-road vehicle into the stream of commerce.
Without an adequate expert report to back up the plaintiffs' claims, Christus Hospital St. Elizabeth has been dismissed from a suit that blamed it for the death of a man who had been stabbed in the back.
Valorie Davenport Making good on her promise, plaintiff's attorney Valorie Davenport filed an appeal June 2 over her lost medical-malpractice suit � a case in which the lawyers have created more attention than the plaintiff or defendants.
Davenport While plaintiff's attorney Valorie Davenport plots her next legal move after having her motion for a new trial dismissed, the judge who presided over the case is considering imposing sanctions against her client.
Davenport An attorney who claimed jury tampering by the Southeast Texas Record as one of the reasons she lost a medical malpractice case will not get a new trial for her client.
An arbitrator has declared that a Beaumont police officer who was suspended for having sex with prostitutes during a sting operation will be reinstated to the force.
West Orange-Cove Mustangs Former West Orange-Cove assistant school principal Jamie Wilson should have appealed her firing to the Texas education commissioner instead of suing the school district, the Ninth District appeals court in Beaumont decided on Feb. 12.
Flint and Soyars TEXARKANA � Two Texarkana attorneys have found themselves on the receiving end of a lawsuit after client sued them for failing to file a personal injury suit before the statute of limitations ran out.
As of press time for the Southeast Texas Record's Jan. 26 edition, no verdict has been reached in the medical malpractice trial carrying on in Judge Donald Floyd's 172nd District Court.
Last February, the Southeast Texas Record reported on the trial of Roy Limbrick et al vs. Mariner Health Care Inc. (Green Acres Parkdale). The jurors sided with the children of Alice Limbrick, 94, and faulted the nursing home for the loss of Alice's legs, awarding the family $400,000 in damages.
Valorie Davenport On Dec. 3, one of the first days of the medical malpractice trial of Stacy Thompson vs. Dr. James Woodruff, squabbling between opposing counsel caused Judge Donald Floyd to tell the attorneys he would declare a mistrial "and hold someone in contempt" if their disruptive behavior didn't cease.
Judge Donald Floyd A week-long break and a surprise snow fall hasn't cooled tempers in the 172nd District Court, as Judge Donald Floyd renewed his threat on Monday, Dec. 12 to hold lawyers trying a medical malpractice case in contempt.
Jefferson County voters may have joined the majority of Americans in voting for Democrat Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election, but the county's Republican Party still had its own type of victory on Election Day.
Hurricane Ike may have passed through Southeast Texas a week ago, but one group is warning residents of another danger ahead � the "eminent threat of asbestos exposure" in the wake of the storm.
TEXARKANA, Ark. � An Arkansas woman claims that burns she and her daughter sustained were the result of a defective pressure cooker and have sued the product's maker