Sharing the roads with commercial trucks is a fact of life in Mississippi. Although the trucks that travel on the roads are limited in size because Mississippi does not allow longer combination vehicles, there are still heavily laden semi-trucks that cannot stop quickly or turn suddenly even under the best of circumstances. When these vehicles […]
When you are driving along Mississippi roads, it is not uncommon to see people putting on makeup, looking at the GPS device, bending down to scroll through the music options, or using a cell phone or other electronic device. These various forms of distracted driving lead to dangerous situations where the driver’s focus is off […]
Merrell Williams, Jr. died in Ocean Springs, Mississippi on November 18, 2013. Williams was a controversial whistleblower who was one of the main reasons many of the dangerous or fraudulent actions of the big tobacco industry were brought to light, but the manner in which this came about was the subject of great debate. Williams […]
Under the False Claims Act, those people who learn about the efforts of businesses to defraud the federal government through fraudulent practices or the submission of false documents may receive a portion of any payments that the government is able to recover from the wrongdoer. This percentage may range up to thirty percent (30%) of […]
When the Deepwater Horizon had a catastrophic incident on April 20, 2010, 11 people were killed and 4.9 million gallons of oil poured into the Gulf of Mexico, forever altering the lives of many victims. Despite the initial assertions by BP Oil to meet its financial obligations in the aftermath of the largest marine oil […]
The United States Government enacted the False Claims Act as an incentive to people that had inside information of wrongdoing to provide those details to investigative bodies. The act has led to legal action being brought against many commercial enterprises, large and small. One of the most recent cases filed under the False Claims Act […]
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