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Ardent Companies Inc. has agreed to pay $2.325 million to settle a class action lawsuit filed by oil platform workers who claimed they weren’t paid for on-call time after the end of their daily shifts. The class action settlement against the ...
Wage and overtime claims have become increasingly more common in many states across the U.S., prompting employers to perform their due diligence when calculating overtime pay for their workers. The need for compliance has been promoted by additional ...
As we discussed in a recent blog post , numerous veterans and service members across the country have been filing federal civil lawsuits against 3M Company, the Minnesota-based conglomerate responsible for what plaintiffs claim were defective ...
Bailey Cowan Heckaman PLLC is pleased to announce that Partner Aaron Heckaman was selected for inclusion to the 2019 Texas Super Lawyers list of Rising Stars! This is the second year Aaron has been named to the Rising Stars list, which is reserved ...
Thousands of veterans who served in the U.S. armed forces have filed lawsuits against 3M Company over claims that the manufacturer’s faulty earplugs failed to function as intended, and caused them hearing loss and other injuries and losses. Many of ...
Bailey Cowan Heckaman PLLC is pleased to announce that Firm Partner Aaron Heckaman will be a featured lecturer at the upcoming Cutting-Edge Issues in Asbestos Litigation Conference. The conference will be held March 11 – 12, 2019 at the Beverly ...
On Thursday December 20, 2018, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., released a statement discussing the concerns surrounding Essure and the plans moving forward. Essure, a permanent birth control device linked to serious adverse effects in women, ...
The past few days have not been easy for Johnson & Johnson, the multi-national corporation known for its pharmaceutical and consumer products, and most notoriously for its Baby Powder. That’s due in large part to the release of an investigative ...
The Texas Trial Lawyers Association (TTLA) filed an amicus brief in response to a Texas appeals court throwing out Ellarene Farris’ suit against Jefferson County earlier this year. She accused the county of exposing Judge James Farris, her husband to ...
A group of women in Australia who suffered serious side effects from the permanent birth control product Essure have filed a lawsuit against Bayer, the pharmaceutical company that makes the implant. Learn more about the dangerous side effects caused ...
Bloomberg recently published an article about the sharp increase in the number of Essure lawsuits following the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) required Bayer, the manufacturer and distributor of this permanent contraceptive device to put out ...
The United States Supreme Court announced on Monday, March 26 that they will not hear Crane Co.’s appeal of the Missouri appellate courts’ decision to uphold the original $11.5 million jury verdict in favor of Jeanette Poage, whose husband died in ...
The American Association for Justice (AAJ) is set to have their monthly update on Friday, November 3. This monthly call will update members of the AAJ’s Asbestos Litigation Group (ALG) about the latest news, and will discuss new and emerging topics ...
We are excited to announce that partner Camp Bailey was recently selected to the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee (PSC) by United Stated District Judge Claire C. Cecchi in In re: Proton-Pump Inhibitor Products Liability Litigation , MDL No. 2789. ...
For decades, our attorneys at Bailey Cowan Heckaman PLLC have committed themselves to providing injured victims with the experienced legal representation they deserve in their time of need. Recently, we were featured in Newsweek as one of the Best ...
Attorneys Aaron Heckaman and Robert Cowan successfully secured an $11.5 million jury verdict in St. Louis, Missouri Circuit Court for Jeanette Poage, the widow of James Poage, who died of mesothelioma in May of 2012. $10 million was awarded for ...
According to a United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report released on Thursday, January 12, Fiat Chrysler installed software in the engines of approximately 100,000 Dodge Ram trucks and Jeep Cherokees that masked their nitrogen oxide ...
The California Supreme Court unanimously voted on Thursday, December 1 that companies can be held liable when people get sick from asbestos dust brought home from a job site. Following this ruling, people who contracted mesothelioma from asbestos ...
Following months of speculation, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) selected asbestos as 1 of the 10 substances they will evaluate under the recent powers granted to them under the amended Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The act was ...
It may now feel like the norm in the United States, but corporations haven’t always spent millions of dollars to finance election campaigns. The Center for American Progress, a left-leaning progressive public policy research and advocacy ...
Continuing her ongoing fight to protect asbestos victims across the United States, California Senator Barbara Boxer introduced the Alan Reinstein Ban Asbestos Now Act of 2016 , co-sponsored by Montana Senator Jon Tester, to the Senate on September ...
Bailey Cowan Heckaman PLLC’s own Ken Bailey was honored as a “Lifetime Achiever” in this month’s issue of Texas Lawyer—one of only a small group of Texas attorneys to receive the award. Lifetime Achievers have made significant contributions to the ...
An investigation by the United States Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division into National Freight Inc. (NFI), one of the country’s biggest commercial transportation companies, has revealed that they incorrectly classified yard spotters and ...
A Texas jury has awarded Rachel Melancon nearly $10.3 million on August 17 following a two week-long trial over the death of her newborn baby Olivia Marie Coats on January 1, 2014. The lawsuit, filed against the Medical Center for Southeast Texas and ...
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reported [1] that 16 people or more were killed in a hot air balloon crash that occurred on Saturday, July 30, making it the worst hot air balloon crash in United States history, not counting airships. ...
