Goodwin MORGANTOWN -– The thought of human body parts being chopped, sold and shipped all over the world sounds more like a sci-fi movie plot than reality.
Goodwin RICHMOND, Va. – Survivors of California resident Daniel McCornack plan to challenge U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin's rejection of their wrongful death suit against drug maker Actavis Totowa.
Goodwin CHARLESTON – The Justice Department on Tuesday announced an agreement with Alpha Natural Resources totaling nearly $210 million in payments connected to the 2010 Upper Big Branch mine disaster.
Workman CHARLESTON – Owners of West Virginia race tracks can't suspend jockeys until the state racing commission holds hearings on charges against them, the Supreme Court of Appeals ruled.
Goodwin CHARLESTON – Like dust specks, U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin blew away the last two cases in nationwide litigation over heart medicine Digitek on Nov. 3.
CHARLESTON – U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin will admit testimony of medical expert David Bliesner that he signed a declaration full of errors when Goodwin holds a wrongful death trial against drug maker Actavis.
CHARLESTON – Lawyers for drug maker Actavis broke ethical rules by asking expert David Bliesner about errors in a declaration for a case in West Virginia while deposing him for a case in Oklahoma, according to lawyer Don Ernst.
CHARLESTON – David Bliesner, expert witness for a wrongful death trial against drug maker Actavis, admitted under oath that he signed a declaration full of errors under oath.
CHARLESTON – Double thick pills of heart medicine Digitek reached the market and one of them killed Ralph McCornack, lawyers for his estate argue in federal court.
Goodwin CHARLESTON – No one who claimed drug maker Actavis produced double thick pills of heart medicine Digitek brought such a pill to court, but a nurse swears she saw one.
Williamson CHARLESTON – Mimi Rivera-Vega of Texas endured 12 years of progressive heart disease that led to a transplant in her final month, yet surviving spouse Scottie Vega blames her death on a pill she swallowed.
WASHINGTON – West Virginia mother Jennifer Workman plans to seek relief at the U.S. Supreme Court from state law requiring immunization of her daughter.
Goodwin CHARLESTON – Lawyers who feuded in public over fees from national litigation against drug maker Actavis and distributor Mylan settled the dispute privately.
McGraw RICHMOND, Va. -- A federal appeals court has ruled that the federal government was right to withhold Medicaid funds from West Virginia because it was shortchanged in a lawsuit by state Attorney General Darrell McGraw.
McConnell MORGANTOWN -- Joyce McConnell calls herself "an impatient dean," not out of frustration, but from her desire to create a national reputation for West Virginia University's College of Law as a center for policy research and practice in energy and sustainable resource development.
Goodwin CHARLESTON – U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin has granted 15 more days for lawyers to settle a feud over fees in national litigation against drug maker Actavis Totowa and distributor Mylan Pharmaceuticals.
CHARLESTON -- As head of the West Virginia Association for Justice (WVAJ) — the official name of West Virginia's personal injury lawyers — Michael Romano continues to do his best to demagogue the issue of appeals court legislation.