Mississippi Personal Injury Lawyers Fighting For You
BP has spent the better part of the past year complaining that its fund for compensating victims of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill has been rapidly depleted due to fictitious or exaggerated claims by some individuals and businesses located along the Gulf Coast. Last week the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion that partially sided with the…
An Amtrak train in Holmes County, MS derailed last month after crashing into a tractor-trailer. The serous accident led to injuries to six people, including four passengers and two crewmembers. Police say the train derailment involved an Amtrak train bound of New Orleans, the Spirit of New Orleans. The train was carrying 152 passengers as well as 11 crewmembers at…
Police are saying that a deadly accident in suburban Memphis was caused by a drunk driver heading the wrong way down a busy section of I-240. The wrong-way driver then caused a head-on collision that left two teenage cousins, Demetria Allen and Chastity Wilson, as well as the wrong-way driver, dead. Police say they have finally concluded an investigation that…
An 11-month-old girl miraculously survived an accident with a train and has now been released from the hospital following the weekend collision. Though the girl managed to survive the crash, the driver, the girl’s 64-year-old grandmother, tragically did not. According to authorities in Pass Christian, Mississippi, an SUV driven by the girl’s grandmother was hit by a train after trying…
Police officers in Lowndes County, Mississippi say that a 71-year-old man has been hospitalized after an SUV crashed into his motorcycle early Tuesday morning. Reports indicate that the accident happened a little before 8 in the morning on Mississippi Highway 50 near Holly Hills Road. Mississippi Highway Patrol officials say that a Chevy Trail Blazer driven by James Hendershaw collided…
Police in Rankin County, Mississippi say that the driver who is believed to be responsible for a serious collision that left five children injured was not only impaired at the time of the accident, but is also a convicted sex offender who was recently released from jail. Authorities say that several of the injured children and one adult remain in…
In yet another indication of how brutally BP intends to fight to undercut the 2012 settlement agreement it signed with injured plaintiffs across the Gulf Coast following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the company has formally filed a request before a federal judge to ask that more than $25 million be cut from the budget of the Court Supervised Settlement…
The court-appointed claims administrator of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement program, Patrick Juneau, responded aggressively last week to claims made by BP that the process is mired in fraud. Juneau’s court filing was in response to BP’s recent motion before Judge Carl Barbier that all payments in the claims program be suspended until an investigation into fraudulent claims…
Police in Rankin County, say that one person has died and another person is in the hospital in critical condition after a terrible head-on accident with a Rankin County school bus. Authorities say they are grateful that there were no children on-board the bus during the crash, which took place just before 5 p.m. last week after the bus had…
BP has yet again made a move to avoid paying the money it agreed to pay to injured plaintiffs in its 2012 oil spill settlement. BP announced that it would try and convince the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to overrule Judge Carl Barbier’s decision that approved the settlement agreement in the first place. BP’s lawyers are now arguing in…