Former U.S. Department of Transportation Inspector General Mary Schiavo, a partner at Motley Rice, said that lawyers would be looking at multiple facts, including the conversation between the air traffic control and the pilot just before Sunday’s crash, which killed the LA Lakers star and eight others. "Those next sentences could be billion dollar words," Shiavo said.

The U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday it will hold a public meeting on Feb. 19 to discuss the future of a federal law which largely exempts online platforms from legal liability for the material their users post.

At least eight people were killed early Monday in an explosive fire that consumed dozens of vessels docked at a marina along the Tennessee River in northern Alabama.

Bayer AG (BAYGn.DE) is set to face a fourth U.S. jury trial over allegations that its Roundup weed killer causes cancer, with four cancer patients in the hometown of its agricultural subsidiary Monsanto scheduled to begin making their case on Friday.

A massive explosion at a machine shop ripped through a Houston neighborhood early Friday morning, and police said at least two people were killed and several injured while homes were damaged by the explosion that sent out blast waves detected for miles.

Compliance with the Medicare Secondary Payer Act (MSP) in a workers compensation, general liability, or no-fault settlement requires a multi-faceted approach to satisfy three pillars—past, present, and future—of protecting Medicare’s interest.

In one notable personal injury case, a medical provider billed more than $14,000 for a procedure that’s typically reimbursed by insurance at less than $400. Grossly inflated claims are costing the industry dearly and in some cases are driving trucking companies out of the marketplace because they can no longer afford insurance.

Rock singer Meat Loaf is suing a hotel in North Texas. He claims he cannot perform music because of a fall off the hotel’s stage. Meat Loaf filed the lawsuit in Tarrant County this week against Hyatt Corporation and the Texas Frightmare Weekend organizers.

Weeks after a massive 75-car pile up on Interstate 64 westbound, Virginia State Police investigators believe the initial cause of the pileup was one car and a patch of black ice.

A new report highlights the worst local courts and states for abuses of the civil justice system, with the Top 10 Judicial Hellholes filled with widespread civil lawsuits, legislative loopholes that create more ways for lawyers to sue, and judges who allow junk science into evidence in trials.

An insurer suspicious about a vehicle accident obtains evidence that the occupants of the different vehicles were talking by phone to one another.

Another auto-piloted Tesla has crashed into another car—two cars, actually—last month. The Tesla’s “driver” (in quotes to ironize the obvious) was reportedly “checking on his dog” in the back seat when his car rammed into a Connecticut State Police cruiser and then ping-ponged into another car that was parked on the shoulder of the road.

A chain reaction crash on Interstate 95 in Carmel, Maine, caused 30 cars to pile up west of Bangor Tuesday morning, stranding hundreds of drivers on the highway and seriously injuring one person, police said.

A chain-reaction crash involving a tour bus, three tractor-trailers and a passenger car killed five people and injured about 60 others on the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Pittsburgh early on Sunday, state police said.

One of the busiest years yet for climate litigation, 2019 was highlighted by favorable decisions handed down by some of the world’s highest courts.