John O'Brien News
Vioxx cases not all big payoffs
A bottle of Vioxx CHARLESTON - The numbers are staggering.
Couple sues Wal-Mart over tree stand
HUNTINGTON - A Poca couple is blaming the manufacturer and seller of a tree stand that they say was faulty and caused a November 2004 fall.
Orrick plans merger
Ralph Baxter CHARLESTON - Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe, a San Francisco-based law firm that built its Global Operations Center in Wheeling, has reached an agreement to merge with New York-based Dewey Ballantine.
Parents sue DHHR over custody dispute
CHARLESTON - Two Charleston parents are suing the state's Department of Health and Human Resources, claiming it wrongly took custody of their child from them last Halloween.
Whittaker's partners sued
Whittaker CHARLESTON - Two men who make up Powerball winner Jack Whittaker's Absolut-Huntington company are being sued for more than $1 million.
Woman blames Wal-Mart for fall
CHARLESTON - A Braxton County woman says her slip and fall is Wal-Mart's fault and is suing the company in Kanawha Circuit Court.
Fourteen asbestos suits filed
CHARLESTON - A Pittsburgh attorney filed 13 lawsuits on behalf of clients and another was filed recently in Kanawha Circuit Court.
Vioxx case filed
CHARLESTON - A Huntington woman has joined the ranks of those suing Merck over its manufacture and distribution of the drug Vioxx, which was pulled off the market in 2004.
This Just In: Kanawha County
Oct. 19
Bar fight turns into lawsuit
HUNTINGTON - An Ohio family says it was beaten and tossed out of a Huntington country and western bar, despite the fact it did nothing to deserve such treatment.
Man says family stole his business
WHEELING - An Ohio man says his son and grandson to his tent and awning company from him while he was in the hospital with cancer.
City of Nitro behind on payments, suit says
CHARLESTON - A developer says the City of Nitro has failed to keep up with payments owed to it from the building of the Nitro Marketplace shopping center.
Legal fees at issue in Jesus of Bridgeport lawsuit
CLARKSBURG - With more than $150,000 raised to fight a legal battle over a religious painting that hung in Bridgeport High School, Harrison County school board members think it should be easy to pay the attorneys fees that were incurred, considering it was less than a third of what was raised.
Anti-Capito lawyer runs ads
CHARLESTON - A Pendleton County lawyer intent on removing Shelly Moore Capito from her office in the U.S. House of Representatives has taken out an advertisement in his local newspaper asking readers to vote against Capito on Tuesday.
CATCHING UP: Boy gets $40K settlement
CHARLESTON - At any given time, the Kanawha County Board of Education is dealing with 30-40 lawsuits filed against it.
Law firm sues phone book publisher
CHARLESTON - A week after it was the other way around, a law firm is the plaintiff in an advertising lawsuit.
Attorney General settles two cases
Attorney General Darrell McGraw CHARLESTON - State Attorney General Darrell McGraw reached two settlements this month, one with a door-to-door seller of Craftmatic beds and another with a Minnesota debt purchaser.
Woman says Christmas tree lit her up
CHARLESTON - A Kanawha County woman says she was electrocuted by a Christmas tree and is suing the store at which she purchased it.
Death should have been prevented, suit says
CHARLESTON - The administrator of the estate of a man who died after his appendix burst says his death was avoidable and is suing the doctors who treated him.
Satellite dish worker blown off roof, suit says
CHARLESTON - A Jackson County man says the electric shock caused by a faulty ground wire blew him off a customer's roof as he worked on a satellite dish.