September 2, 2022
A former attorney with one of Florida’s top insurance defense firms has been disbarred after the Bar said she engaged in repeated acts of neglect, deception and forgery. Erika Lynn Muller, until recently a partner with the Cole, Scott & …
January 20, 2021
AMERICUS, Ga. (AP) — The FBI says a Georgia attorney accused of joining the attack on the U.S. Capitol riot bragged on social media that he was among the first rioters to break into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office, and …
September 24, 2020
LOS ANGELES — Vanessa Bryant, the widow of basketball star Kobe Bryant, has filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles County sheriff claiming deputies shared unauthorized photos of the crash that killed her husband, their 13-year-old daughter and seven others. …
November 7, 2019
Paula Lawlor was sifting through piles of internal General Motors Co documents in a hotel room outside of Los Angeles when she hit pay dirt: Company records showing that GM knew for years that stronger roofs on its vehicles could …
July 19, 2019
ANAHEIM, California — The Division of Workers’ Compensation has assigned a California Highway Patrol officer to each of the state’s 22 Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board offices after a handful of violent attacks against lawyers. But sometimes it’s the lawyers themselves …
December 6, 2011
Attorney Harrison Williams should have made $75,000 for work he did on behalf of a prisoner who filed a lawsuit. Instead, an appeals court ruled, he earned $1.50. The prisoner, who claimed he had his religious rights violated when his …
November 23, 2011
A federal judge has approved a settlement that calls for the St. Landry Parish School Board in Lafayette, La., to pay $800,000 to the attorney who was on the opposing side of the parish’s school desegregation case for more than …
November 15, 2011
A judge has scheduled a hearing Nov. 16 on whether Greenwood police can analyze medicine taken from a 41-year-old attorney’s purse after a wreck. A lawsuit says it was taken unconstitutionally without permission or a warrant, and a judge has …
November 10, 2011
Investigating and defending catastrophic injury claims involves careful navigation of the tripartite relationship that exists among the policyholder, the claimant, and legal counsel hired by the insurer to defend the insured. When evaluating catastrophic injury claims, adjusters need to keep …
September 1, 2011
A former Tulsa attorney has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay $700,000 in restitution for worker’s compensation fraud and embezzlement. Attorney General Scott Pruitt said Tuesday that William Anton drew the sentence in Tulsa County …