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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…
A recent article out of Pontotoc, Mississippi discussed an accident late last month which left two people injured, one critically. The accident was not your run of the mill crash involving two passenger vehicles. This one instead involved a Nissan Altima and a horse and buggy. According to the Mississippi Highway Patrol, the strange accident took place at around 3:30…
A terrible skydiving accident in southern Mississippi left a skydiving instructor dead and his student critically injured. The accident, which happened Saturday morning, resulted in the two men crash landing in the woods in rural Lumberton, MS. According to a statement from authorities in Lamar County, the 56-year-old instructor, James Horak, died after setting off with a group of divers…
Police say that late last week a pedestrian was killed and a paramedic was seriously injured after a drunk driver crashed into them with his truck at the scene of an earlier accident. Police say the first accident occurred at 8:30 in the evening near the intersection of Bullard Street and Gymnasium Drive. EMTs responded to the first accident and…
Police in Jackson, MS say that a car accident along I-55 occurred last week after a vehicle fell off a car carrying truck. According to officers, the car carrier was too high and hit a bridge which knocked a Nissan Xterra off the truck and down onto the interstate. Another vehicle then crashed into the Xterra soon after it fell…
The Mississippi Highway Patrol released a statement saying that three motorcyclists in north Mississippi were airlifted to a local hospital after being hit by an SUV outside Tunica. The accident involved several riders who were in Tunica for the weekend for a motorcycle festival. Police say two separate accidents left multiple riders recovering from critical injuries over the weekend. In…
More bad news for BP and its efforts to avoid paying injured plaintiffs across Mississippi and other Gulf Coast states the settlement money that they were promised. A federal judge in New Orleans last week ordered BP to put up another $130 million for settlement payments to cover the next three months. BP claims that the settlement administrator, Patrick Juneau,…
Authorities have said that an off-duty member of the Mississippi Highway Patrol was killed in a motorcycle accident early last week in Senatobia, MS. Authorities say the officer, Sergeant Eric Lentz, was driving his 2005 Harley when he collided with a 2006 Dodge Charger. According to investigators at the scene who spoke to eyewitnesses, the driver of the truck attempted…
A serious accident took place this last week in Gulfport, Mississippi according to recent news reports. The traffic along I-10 is backed up for miles after authorities say a multiple vehicle accident blocked westbound lanes. Police officials say the accident took place between the Lorraine-Cowan Road exist and the Highway 49 exit sometime Tuesday afternoon. Mississippi DOT officials say that…
A spokesperson for BP announced only a few days ago that the settlement it reached with private plaintiffs regarding the 2010 Gulf Coast oil spill could be threatened if the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decides against the oil company. BP claimed that if the Court does not agree to throw out the current payment calculation being used by claims…