Author: Beasley Allen

March 9, 2023

Hair Relaxer Litigation Gains Leadership With Navan Ward’s Appointment

The Black community uses hair relaxers linked to uterine, endometriosis, and ovarian cancers more than any other race in the U.S. For instance, research shows uterine cancer death rates are highest among non-Hispanic Black women. This population is also more likely to be diagnosed with aggressive uterine cancer subtypes. …

March 3, 2023

Clay Barnett Will Help Lead Honda Class Action For Plaintiffs

Owners of Honda and Acura vehicles and those leasing them are suing the company because of a problem with Honda’s Idle-Stop System. It is a defect the customers say Honda knew about but did nothing to make work. The defect causes the vehicles’ engines to turn off under certain …

February 27, 2023

Seventeen Beasley Allen Attorneys Named to Lawdragon 500

Seventeen Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C. attorneys have been selected to the 2023 Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers list. Those named to the prestigious list include: Jere Beasley, Founding Attorney Greg Allen, Lead Products Liability Attorney Andy Birchfield, Mass Torts Section Head LaBarron Boone Kendall …

February 20, 2023

Case Filed Due to Railing Collapse at Vacation Rental

Wyatt Montgomery, a lawyer in our Personal Injury and Product Liability Section and based out of our Mobile, Alabama, office, filed a premises liability lawsuit against a vacation rental company, its property management company and a property owner on behalf of a renter seriously injured while he and his …

February 20, 2023

$7 Million Settlement for Our Client Over Fatal On-the-Job Injury

Mike Andrews, Cole Portis and Dana Taunton recently worked with Birmingham lawyer Doug Roy to secure a $7 million settlement for a widow whose husband died from an on-the-job injury. The settlement, believed to be the largest ever reached for a single defendant in the Anniston, Alabama, federal court, …

February 20, 2023

Camp Lejeune Litigation Enters Second Stage – Filing Lawsuits

On Aug. 10, 2022, President Biden signed the Camp Lejeune Justice Act (CLJA), which created a legal framework for victims of toxic water contamination at Camp Lejeune to pursue litigation against the federal government. Feb. 10, 2023, is a monumental date for service members and others affected by Camp Lejeune’s contaminated …

February 17, 2023

Social Media Addiction Litigation Moves Forward

Plaintiffs’ lawyers in a national multidistrict litigation (MDL) against some of the world’s largest social media platforms filed a master complaint on Feb. 14, meeting a deadline set by federal judge Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers in Oakland, Calif. Beasley Allen lawyer Joseph VanZandt is one of the lawyers appointed to the Plaintiffs Steering …

February 17, 2023

Acetaminophen MDL Clients Get Favorable Ruling

U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in the Southern District of New York recently took significant action in the new Acetaminophen ASD/ADHD Multidistrict Litigation (MDL). She denied a defendant Walmart’s Motion to Dismiss on preemption grounds. Judge Cote ruled that the motion was not applicable in this case since U.S. Food and …

February 16, 2023

Meso Lawyer Digs Deep To Find More Asbestos-Exposing Culprits

Sometimes mesothelioma cases seem cut and dry. You know from your client’s history of working in the shipbuilding industry that he is a victim of massive occupational asbestos exposure. Shipyards were one of the job sites with some of the highest levels of asbestos exposure. It’s common knowledge that …

February 15, 2023

Settlement After Rollover Crash, Defective Airbag Kills 5-Year-Old

On a summer day in 2019, our client Migdalia Roach strapped her 5-year-old daughter into the second-row left seat of their vehicle, recalling hearing the seatbelt “click.” The girl’s 10-year-old brother was seated next to her in the second-row right seat. As they traveled on a road in St. …

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