Musgrave CHARLESTON – Failing to return a settlement check is not the only time a Point Pleasant attorney has mishandled legal matters involving a physician. Nearly 20 years ago, Raymond G. Musgrave had to answer for "gross incompetency" in settling the estate of a doctor and his wife who died in the worst single-airplane crash in American history.
Musgrave CHARLESTON – A Point Pleasant attorney faces possible disciplinary action for his mishandling of a settlement awarded to a Mason County physician in a 2001 civil case.
POINT PLEASANT – Despite settling one lawsuit, the Mason County Board of Education has been named a defendant in another. Ironically, both suits arise from problems at the same Bend-area school.
POINT PLEASANT – At least one lawsuit in which the city of Point Pleasant was involved was apparently settled over two years ago, but paperwork to formally dismiss it was only recently signed.
POINT PLEASANT – Despite the election being over, several newly election members of the Point Pleasant city council remain mum or non-committal on whether the city should settle or fight three lawsuits that were initiated during the previous administration.
Westmoreland CHARLESTON – The state Supreme Court has agreed to hear a Mason County case that could challenge the constitutionality of a medical malpractice reform law.
Signs like this one in support of councilman-at-large candidate Gary Cotton on the corner of Jackson Avenue and 26th Street are beginning to sprout up in Point Pleasant in preparation for the upcoming May 19 election. POINT PLEASANT – Candidates for the upcoming Point Pleasant city election are either mum or wanting to take a wait-and-see approach to lawsuits involving the city.
The current home of the Mason County Emergency Ambulance Service Authority in Point Pleasant. POINT PLEASANT – Despite pending lawsuits against them for alleged shoddy work and unpaid taxes for other projects they performed in the county, a Point Pleasant contractor was the low bidder for the county's new ambulance service garage.
Vaidya CHARLESTON – Perhaps to coincide with the beginning of the season, legal counsel for a Point Pleasant urologist say the reasons provided by Mason physician for why his malpractice case should be reinstated resemble that of a baseball team manager going deep into his pitching rotation to salvage the game.
HUNTINGTON - West Virginia taxpayers have retained a mysterious attorney in their lawsuit over ill effects of Zyprexa, a prescription drug for psychotics.
POINT PLEASANT – The special prosecutor appointed to investigate allegations of forgery committed by a Point Pleasant attorney says neither his bankruptcy filing nor his brother's position in state government has any bearing on her investigation.