CHARLESTON – The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has ruled that the Mass Litigation Panel’s application of the public policy exception was clearly erroneous in a case alleging exposure to coal combustion residuals from a landfill owned by American Electric Power Company.
WHEELING – From ancient times until the late 1800s, physicians believed in bloodletting as a treatment for all kinds of diseases. Doctors and scientists thought that blood carried what they called “humours” that got out of balance in sick people, and that pouring out some of the blood would balance them and cure the disease. Sometimes leeches were used. We know now that this thinking was wrong and that intentionally bleeding a patient usually hurts and can even kill.
ELKINS – A woman is suing Ocwen Loan Servicing after she claims it violated the West Virginia Consumer Credit and Protection Act. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company was also named as a defendant in the suit.
WHEELING – A political party that stops listening to its voters is like a person who has stopped breathing. For a short time, nothing seems to change. But it gets uncomfortable quickly, and then unbearable. That is how the West Virginia Democrats find themselves after 2016: suffocating.
WHEELING – Husband and wife attorneys Jim and Linda Bordas recently were honored with the Dr. Lee Jones Patron of Youth award during the YMCA’s annual Light of the Valley fundraiser luncheon. The couple’s commitment to serving the community was a driving factor behind the honor.
MOUNDSVILLE – Four more lawsuits were filed against the physician over Valley Pain Management Clinic for allowing patients to be exposed to Hepatitis C and other blood-borne pathogens.
WHEELING – The U.S. Supreme Court ordered that the phrase “equal justice under law” be engraved on the west pediment of its courthouse in 1932. Derived from our Fourteenth Amendment, those words solemnly promise that our legal system will dispense justice without regard to race, religion, or national origin. Every lawyer swears to uphold our constitution, and its sacred guarantee of equal justice.
MOUNDSVILLE – Four residents filed a class action lawsuit against Axiall Corporation after they claim chlorine gas leaked traveled from inside the facility to the surrounding community.
CHARLESTON – The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has ruled that an award of attorney fees and costs in a 13-year-old lawsuit is an abuse of discretion.
