Personal Injury

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News & Analysis as of May 25, 2013

Illinois Jury Found Nursing Home Liable For $28.1 Million In Whistleblower Case Alleging Substandard Care And Resident Abuse

by Anne Cooper, Meredith Duncan, Kara Friedman, Lindsay Kessler, Jason Lundy, Matthew Murer, Hannah Neshek, Chuck Sheets, Kathryn Stalmack, Joseph Van Leer | Polsinelli on 2/22/2013

An Illinois district court jury in United States v. Momence Meadows Nursing Center, Inc. recently issued a verdict on February 11, 2013 imposing $28.1 million in civil penalties on the operators of a nursing home. The nursing...more

Fisher v. Halliburton: Fifth Circuit Invokes Common Sense To Defend Defense Base Act

by Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 2/14/2012

In March 2010, a federal district court in Texas ruled that the deaths and injuries sustained by a group of civilian convoy drivers in Iraq during insurgent attacks were not “accidents” caused by conditions of...more

Government Contractors - Fifth Circuit Upholds Exclusivity of Defense Base Act Compensation Scheme for Injuries to Federal...

by Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC on 1/20/2012

On January 12, 2012, a unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an opinion ending six years of litigation against KBR and Halliburton over injuries and fatalities to contractor drivers in an...more