In recent days, I have watched with interest as attorneys begin to file cases on behalf of people tragically gunned down in Las Vegas last year by a gunman firing from a window in the Mandalay Bay Casino. The theory of these cases that are now percolating up is that the casino was negligent in […]
The Mississippi legislature ended a special session last month by agreeing to distribute $750 million of BP Oil Spill settlement money. Because so many of my clients here in Mississippi were affected by the Spill and continue to live with its aftermath, I wanted to go over the terms of this decision and its effects. […]
The financial crisis of 2008 was caused in large part by “too big to fail” banks recklessly offering subprime mortgage loans. Subprime means that the people who were taking the loans were unlikely to be able to pay them back. Large tranches, or groups, of these loans were bundled and sold to banks across the […]
As I have explained before, the False Claims Act is quite an old law that Abraham Lincoln signed into law to prevent war profiteers from supplying the Army with faulty goods during the Civil War. In the time since, the False Claims Act has served the United States well, preventing fraud by incentivizing whistleblower claims. […]
When a mother enters a Mississippi hospital to give birth to a child, she and the father always hope to leave with a happy, healthy child. Unfortunately, the process of giving birth can have complications that result in harm to the child. For many years, physicians’ use of forceps—long, metal tongs used to extract a […]
One of the most common types of personal injury cases here in Mississippi is a “premises liability” case, or a case against a landowner for negligently maintaining his or her property. This can represent a tremendous diversity of incidents, from a grocery store slip-and-fall to a deck collapsing on an apartment building. The magnitude of […]
There are an endless variety of workplaces here in Mississippi and, sadly, each one has its own unique way of hurting employees. Because workplace injuries are common whether one works on a fishing boat or in a cubicle, or in any other type of workplace, all employers must carry worker’s compensation insurance. While worker’s compensation […]
As I have explained before, the False Claims Act is quite an old law. It was signed into law by Abraham Lincoln to prevent war profiteers from supplying the Army with faulty goods during the Civil War. As the saying goes, “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” In March, a Japanese […]
If you drive Mississippi’s roads, you likely see a tremendous number of trucks carrying cargo. You will see tractor trailers with carefully strapped down loads and other trucks with their cargo unsecured and blowing out of the back of the truck behind them. I’ve even seen two men moving a mattress by holding it to […]
With all of the construction occurring here in Mississippi, I increasingly see buildings wrapped in scaffolding. Scaffolding is one of the cheapest and easiest tools construction workers can use to access elevated projects. While I increasingly see workers using restraints and other safety tools, I also know that working on scaffolding is incredibly dangerous work […]
