Missouri House Bill 205 (HB 205) and Senate Bill 188 (SB 188) are working their way through the Missouri General Assembly. These bills gut protections for workers against discrimination and…
A question was posted on LawGuru recently regarding Alabama Workers Compensation. I thought some people, especially those in jobs requiring more physical labor, might find the question and…
At the recent AAJ convention, I had a chance to meet Surjit Singh Saund, who is a client of Public Justice. Public Justice and two co-counsel law firms recently filed a civil rights suit on behalf…
A Philadelphia gas main exploded at 8:30 p.m. on January 18. Reports reveal that one of the PGW workers was killed and five others were injured as a result of the gas explosion. In addition to the…
The Spud Seller Inc., a potato wholesaler in the San Luis Valley, allowed a supervisor in the packaging plant to sexually harass female workers over an extended period after management was first…
We get questions all of the time from various individuals with legal questions. These questions come into our office in various ways. Sometimes people call us. Sometimes they e-mail us. Sometimes…
A Nashville server has come up with an interesting strategy to try to reign in the proliferation of guns in public places. The server has filed a complaint with the state alleging that the mixture…
A settlement has been reached in the lawsuit brought by the victims of the tragic Minnesota bridge collapse that claimed thirteen lives in 2007. The $52.4 million settlement came as the judge was…
Despicable corporate interests often attempt to equate large verdicts with frivolous lawsuits. They scream lawsuit abuse as often as they can, while procketing huge profits at the expense of those…
A lawsuit has been filed in the Galveston County District Court that claims physicians treating a man at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston lost a portion of the man’s…
News of large groups of plaintiffs suing corporate employers are common, like those cases against WalMart which have received wide media attention. But the American Bar Foundation has issued a study…
In 2008, there were 161 fatal occupational injuries in North Carolina. Twenty-two of these deaths resulted from a fall. Though the data has not been collected or published for the present year, the…
