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Fatal New Orleans car crash occurs on I-10 near site of last month’s deadly pileup

Posted: January 20, 2012 Product Liability

A deadly single-car crash on I-10 in New Orleans occurred just after 8 p.m. Wednesday on the same stretch of the interstate that saw a fatal 40-vehicle pileup last month.

Sick fish discovered in surf off Alabama’s Dauphin Island

Posted: January 12, 2012 Environmental

Mobile Press-Register reporters went to Alabama’s Dauphin Island Monday looking for tar balls deposited on the beaches by BP’s Gulf oil spill, but they found the most telling signs that all is not right in the Gulf in a number

Pileup on I-10 New Orleans kills 2, injures 62

Posted: January 2, 2012 Personal Injury

A deadly pileup of more than 40 vehicles on Interstate 10 West outside New Orleans Thursday included about half a dozen tractor trailers. Pictures and raw video of the pre-dawn pileup show the mangled wreckage of several cars and pickup

Broken lights, marsh fire, fog may have contributed to New Orleans I-10 pileup

Posted: January 2, 2012 Product Liability

A deadly pileup of more than 40 vehicles on Interstate 10 West outside New Orleans Thursday killed two Louisiana men and injured 62 others, many of them critically. Pictures and raw video of the pre-dawn pileup show the mangled wreckage

BP tells court Halliburton destroyed key oil-spill evidence

Posted: December 6, 2011 Environmental

BP levied some hefty accusations against Halliburton Energy Services in court Monday, claiming the company intentionally destroyed cement samples, test results, and computer models that would have demonstrated the contractor’s culpability in the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Woman sues transvaginal mesh makers for $1.5 million

Posted: November 18, 2011 Pharmaceutical

Manufacturers of surgical mesh used to repair pelvic floor disorders are being sued for $1.5 million by a Louisiana woman who claims the medical device is defective. The lawsuit was filed in Federal Court in New Orleans against Johnson &

Two new court rulings concerning Gulf oil spill go against BP

Posted: November 16, 2011 Environmental

NEW ORLEANS, LA — Oil giant BP is doing everything it can to sew its pockets and recover the billions of dollars it lost in the wake of its disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but things don’t always go

Farm trucks often exempted from commercial regulations, but not from liability

Posted: November 11, 2011 Personal Injury

Throughout the Midwest, farmers are harvesting their final crops of the season, which means more large farm trucks laden with grain are out on the roads, hauling their produce to suppliers. Here in the Deep South, the story is much

Feds give BP green light to resume deepwater Gulf drilling

Posted: October 27, 2011 Environmental

It’s been little more than a year since BP successfully plugged its blown-out Macondo well, and the effects of that catastrophic oil spill still abound on the Gulf Coast and deep beneath the surface. Years or even decades may pass

BP settles Gulf oil spill dispute with partner Anadarko

Posted: October 18, 2011 Environmental

BP has settled a legal dispute with another of its Macondo well partners over damages stemming from the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion, which killed 11 workers and set off the 5-million-barrel Gulf of Mexico oil spill last year. Houston-based Anadarko