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Last week, a Galveston County judge issued a $114,519 penalty against storm-chasing Houston attorney Eric Dick for improperly handling an insurance case for a client. Read the full article here.
Austin attorney Roger Borgelt is out with an opinion piece in the Dallas Morning News about the American Tort Reform Foundation’s Judicial Hellholes report naming the Dallas-based Fifth Court of Appeals to its “Watch List.” Read the full article here.
X Ante, a firm that specializes in research on mass tort advertising, reports more than $160 million worth of mass tort TV ads—or nearly 800,000 spots—ran in 2023. Read the full article here.
Officials in Hawaii are investigating Houston attorney Eric Dick for potentially illegal solicitation of legal clients following the Maui wildfires in 2023. Read the full article here.
KPRC 2 reported back in January at least five separate victims who allege that Pettus settled their insurance claims without their knowledge and pocketed the victims’ settlements, going so far as to forge their signatures on paperwork and insurance checks. Now the victims—facing financial and medical distress from the missing payouts—are seeking accountability, and calling for Pettus to face legal consequences and be disbarred. Read the full article here.
A California judge recently ruled that a pharmaceutical company could be held negligent for failing to develop better products faster. Read the full article here.
A new report looks at The Climate Judiciary Project’s (CJP) ideological influence on judges who are handling widespread climate nuisance litigation. Read the full article here.
McClenny Moseley & Associates, the Houston law firm facing disciplinary actions in federal and state court for its deceptive practices in Louisiana hurricane lawsuits, has committed to not using the fees earned from those cases and others. Read the full article here.
Despite arguments that climate policy should be decided on a national level by Congress, rather than state by state in courtrooms, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal in another climate nuisance lawsuit—this time by Minnesota—sending the case back down to state court, saying the lawsuit raises state law public nuisance claims. Read the full article here.