Lawrence Smith News
THIS JUST IN: Wood County
May 18
Wood med mal case to segue into one of wrongful death
PARKERSBURG - Since losing her battle with cancer, a Pleasants County woman's estate soon will be amending her medical malpractice suit against a Wood County hospital and New York physician into a claim for wrongful death.
Woman's fall results in suit against hospital, therapist
RIPLEY - For one Jackson county woman, what hoped to be a day of healing ended in one of alleged injury.
Ex-paramedic files suit against hospital
Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital PARKERSBURG - A former paramedic for a Wood County hospital is alleging the hospital added insult to her work-related injury when she was later fired, all in less than a year.
Former Wyoming Co. attorney consents to disbarment
CHARLESTON - A former West Virginia attorney has surrendered her license following an investigation that found she filed bogus legal actions on behalf of at least three clients.
Deception includes stories about multi-million judgment
CHARLESTON - In addition to at least three other former clients, Jessica L. Toler led a Wyoming County man to believe that he not only won a multi-million dollar malpractice settlement, but also many federal agencies and officials, including former President George W. Bush, had taken an interest in his case.
THIS JUST IN: Wood County
May 13
Wood attorney representing self, wife in personal injury case
PARKERSBURG - In looking for new clients, a Wood County attorney had to go no further than his driveway following a 2007 car wreck.
Suit disputes Ohio firm's take of fees in Boggs wrongful death suit
Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital PARKERSBURG -- An Ohio attorney is alleging that his former law firm has unfairly gained from the nearly 5,000 hours he put into a successful wrongful death suit against a Wood County hospital and physician.
THIS JUST IN: Mason County
April 27
Jackson couple alleges road-rage contributed to son's death
RIPLEY -- A Cottageville couple is alleging that a road-rage incident along a rural Jackson County road last summer led to the death of their son.
Slip-and-fall suit against Jackson Co. Commission dismissed
RIPLEY - A slip-and-fall lawsuit against the Jackson County Commission has come to a conclusion with the woman who filed it agreeing to withdraw her complaint.
Clarksburg attorney disbarred following embezzlement conviction
CHARLESTON - The state Supreme Court has annulled the license of a Harrison County attorney following his admission to embezzling money while chairman of a government agency in Hampshire County.
THIS JUST IN: Wood County
April 27
THIS JUST IN: Jackson County
April 27
Another suit filed over Wood retail development
PARKERSBURG - Two attorneys who allege both a Parkersburg man and chiropractor defrauded them into investing money in a proposed retail development have filed a new lawsuit alleging the local branch of an Columbus, Ohio-based bank, and its president, had a hand in perpetuating the fraud.
THIS JUST IN: Wood County
April 23
THIS JUST IN: Mason County
April 14