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Attorney and legal commentator John Shu is out with a piece analyzing the expanded role nuisance litigation has taken in recent years. Read the full article here.
Watts Guerra, the well-known San Antonio mass tort law firm, is closing its Puerto Rico office and laying off about a third of its staff. Read the full article here.
Take a quick drive down any Texas highway and you’ll be bombarded with billboards advertising personal injury trial lawyers. But this isn’t unique to Texas. This quick read from LAist takes a look at the history and evolution of trial lawyer advertising in Los Angeles. Read the full article here.
Elon Musk, the business magnate behind SpaceX and Tesla, is considering moving Tesla’s legal incorporation from Delaware to Texas. Read the full article here.
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.