CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals denied a writ of prohibition in an appeal involving West Virginia American water for the 2015 water leak.
CHARLESTON – A cemetery company is named in yet another lawsuit claiming it placed the remains of a woman in a mausoleum crypt that had been purchased by others.
CHARLESTON – A Kanawha Circuit judge has granted class certification again in a lawsuit related to a 2015 West Virginia-American Water Company leak in Dunbar.
HUNTINGTON — A federal lawsuit against Cook Medical alleging a defective vena cava filter has been transferred to the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation.
CHARLESTON — Three lawsuits against McKinsey & Company by minors who suffered prenatal exposure to opioids have been transferred to California federal court as part of multidistrict litigation.
CHARLESTON – The state Supreme Court has remanded a case back to Kanawha Circuit Court to redo the class certification order consistent with another recent Supreme Court ruling.
CHARLESTON – A Kanawha Circuit Judge has granted class-action certification in a case against West Virginia American Water Company regarding a 2015 leak.
CHARLESTON – After delays, plaintiffs’ attorneys in a three-year-old case against West Virginia American Water Company have asked for class certification.
WINFIELD – A tenant of a Hurricane apartment building has filed suit against its owner after her leg allegedly went through the bathroom floor of her unit.
WILLIAMSON — A Mingo Circuit judge ordered a case to stay open until a petition for expungement is filed, after both parties have come to an agreement.
FAYETTEVILLE — A real estate property owner is suing Danny Webb and Danny Webb Construction Co., Inc., a frack fluid disposal operator, citing alleged breach of fiduciary duty and unjust enrichment.
CHARLESTON – A class action lawsuit has been filed against Purdue Pharma for babies who were born with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, a condition suffered by babies of mothers addicted to opioids.
CHARLESTON – A federal judge has nixed a proposed class action settlement regarding the 2014 Elk River chemical spill. U.S. District Judge John Copenhaver Jr. on July 6 issued an order denying the proposal. He denied it without prejudice, meaning the parties can refile a revised agreement.
CHARLESTON – While the average water consumer would collect about $500 from a pending settlement of claims over contamination of the Elk River, law firms would collect up to $850 an hour. Lawyers applying for fees up to $40 million reported that they worked 30,248 hours and their employees worked 16,657 hours. In the course of three years and four months, those totals equal about 175 hours a week for lawyers and about 100 a week for support staff.
