Americans in the hurricane danger zone may soon be able to use Google to find out if their own home is threatened by a dangerous storm surge, the director of the National Hurricane Center said Wednesday. Storm surge, the massive …
The Mississippi State Bar has filed a petition to disbar Oxford attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs. The petition was filed Tuesday with the Mississippi Supreme Court, which decides such matters. A similar petition was filed against Sidney A. Backstrom, Scruggs’ law …
Former Mississippi Attorney General Mike Moore notified court officials that he is helping defend Richard “Dickie” Scruggs’ son and law partner, Zach, against judicial bribery charges. As attorney general, Moore teamed up with Richard Scruggs in 1994 to sue tobacco …
High winds destroyed a home and a business in Mississippi’s Prentiss County March 14 and caused major damage to two other structures. A Mississippi Emergency Management Agency spokesman said March 15 that it’s not clear if the damage was caused …
The Mississippi Senate sent Gov, Haley Barbour a bill last week to transfer $25 million into a fund that assists the state wind pool. The wind pool has about 36,000 policies. Most are held by homeowners in six south Mississippi …
Katie South knew something wasn’t right. Her husband, Joe, has been dead for almost three years. The man charged with his death will go on trial Monday in Holly Springs after a judge this week declined to approve another continuance. …
A group of state and municipal governments, including Mississippi, Chicago and Fairfax County, Va., said Friday they sued multiple financial-services firms, alleging price-fixing and bid-rigging in the municipal derivatives industry. The suits were filed against 37 financial-services firms, including Merrill …
Mississippi attorney, Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, used a mix of bare-knuckle tactics and country-lawyer charm to extract billion-dollar settlements from cigarette makers, asbestos companies and other big industries. On March 14, he admitted he crossed the line. Trial Lawyer in Legal …
Florida ranks the worst in terms of tort costs and litigation risks, while North Dakota ranks the best. In a separate ranking, Colorado has the best tort laws on its books, while Rhode Island has the worst. The free-market think …
Federal officials issued trailers to Hurricane Katrina victims even though some workplace safety tests detected high levels of formaldehyde at government staging areas for the structures just weeks after the storm, a lawyer for hundreds of occupants said March 12. …
