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Anti-Terrorism
Aviation & Transportation
Consumer Fraud
Human Rights
Medical Devices
Medical Drugs
Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect
Occupational Disease & Worker Safety
Personal Injury & Wrongful Death
Securities Fraud
Toxic Exposure
Anti-Terrorism
U.S. military personnel injured by IEDs and EFPs funded by sponsors of terrorist groups
Aviation & Transportation
- Commercial or Private Plane and Helicopter Crashes involving all types of aircraft
- Runway Incursions, Taxiway Collisions and Aircraft Ground Collisions
- Any Midair Collision
- Drones and autonomous vehicle crashes including near misses with aircraft
- Military Helicopter and other military aircraft crashes, especially Black Hawk accidents, occurring anywhere in the world
- Boeing 787 Dreamliner accidents, incidents or pilot deviations
- Cirrus aircraft parachute failure or deployment
Consumer Fraud
- Whistleblowers of all types, including SEC and qui tam
- Participants in the Federal Employee Health Benefits program who purchased in-home medical products or services from CareCentrix and were overcharged for them
- Owners of a 2011-2015 model Audi or Volkswagen with a 3.0 Liter TFSI engine
- Owners of vehicles with defective timing chain tensioners that in could cause engine damage
- Purchasers of Certified Preowned Volkswagen or Audi cars on or after June 1, 2011, who suspect that it may actually be a pre-production vehicle
- Hotels, restaurant groups, medical offices and other multi-unit and/or multi-location businesses that were denied business interruption insurance claims related to COVID-19 who have a copy of their complete insurance
- policy, date the business closed to the public or of civil notice for jurisdiction, descriptions of any curbside or online sales, and 2019 – present monthly financials.
- Consumers whose private information was compromised in Blackbaud’s 2020 ransomware attack and resulting data breach. The JPML will hear arguments on Dec. 3, 2020.
Human Rights
Claims of childhood sexual abuse by clergy or other organizational or group leaders that may be litigating under recently passed of “window” laws extending statutes of limitations in states throughout the country, including New York and New Jersey.
Medical Devices
We litigate cases for people suffering serious complications or killed and who had:
- Hernia mesh revision and other complications from manufacturers including Atrium C-QUR™, C.R. Bard mesh that use Marlex polypropylene, Johnson & Johnson Ethicon Physiomesh® Flexible Composite and Composix® Kugel® Mesh patches
- Implanted Cook Medical retrievable IVC Filters
- Pelvic/transvaginal mesh/sling devices
- Stryker® LFIT V40 Femoral Head complications requiring additional hip revision surgery
- Certain staplers manufactured by J&J subsidiary, Ethicon Inc.
- Recalled Allergan Biocell® textured breast implants and breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma (BIA-ALCL) diagnosis.
- Complications from Paragard® IUD
Medical Drugs
We are representing people who died or developed:
- Pancreatic, colorectal, lung or cancers after taking Belviq® or Belviq XR® for weight loss
- Pancreatic cancer diagnosis after taking Type 2 diabetes medications: Byetta®, Januvia®, Janumet®, Victoza®
- Blindness or other severe eye injuries in women who took Elmiron®, a mild blood thinner, to treat interstitial cystitis.
- Ovarian cancer after using talcum powder on the perineum for an extended amount of time
- Mesothelioma and other lung diseases after inhaling asbestos-tainted talcum powder
- Serious liver illness after being prescribed an excessive dosage of Ocaliva for chronic liver disease
- Serious side effects, including kidney injuries, renal failure, acute interstitial nephritis, after taking Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPI) for heartburn, GERD, ulcers, esophageal inflammation, or other stomach acid ailments
- Heart attacks, stroke, or other severe cardiac events after taking Uloric (febuxostat) for gout
- Stomach, bladder, kidney, pancreatic or colon cancer after taking Zantac for heartburn.
- A worsening, inflammatory brain disorder, such as encephalitis or meningoencephalitis, after taking Zinbryta® for Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
- Birth defects after Zofran® exposure during the first trimester of pregnancy
Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect
Facilities with known deficiencies preceding the pandemic that are now being investigated for violations and failing to maintain an infection control program and that had uncontrollable COVID-19 outbreaks and deaths. In states with immunity acts COVID-19 nursing home claims may not be actionable. We represent one family whose family member died at the Washington State Life Care Centers of America, the nursing home chain involved in the first major nursing home outbreak in the country.
Occupational Disease & Worker Safety
Motley Rice represents workers and their families injured or killed by hazardous workplace exposures to toxic dusts, chemicals and defective equipment in litigation including those for:
- People with Mesothelioma, lung cancer and other asbestos-related diseases, merchant seamen in Jones Act cases, and railroad workers in FELA cases
- Workers in pet food, perfume, food and coffee roasting plants exposed to chemicals such as diacetyl and acetyl propionyl and with Chemical flavoring-related lung disease.
- Workers and consumers injured or killed after using paint strippers containing Methylene Chloride
- Workers with cancer or impairment of the nervous, immune, endocrine or reproductive systems who were exposed to dioxins and PCBs used as coolants and lubricants in transformers, capacitors, and other electrical equipment from 1929 to 1979
- Workers severely injured, including those experiencing traumatic brain injury, severe burns, loss of limb or paralysis, or killed in workplace accidents, including falls and explosions including those involving worker’s compensation who have other claims.
Personal Injury & Wrongful Death
- CRITICAL RECALLS: Fatal or serious injuries from defective Takata airbags
- Motorists injured or killed in a wreck involving an airbag manufactured by TRW Automotive Holdings Corp., now owned by German auto parts manufacturer ZF Friedrichshafen that failed to deploy. NHTSA is currently investigating potentially faulty electrical components of the ZF-TRW airbag units that are responsible for sensing a vehicle crash and determining whether airbag deployment and other restraints are needed.
- Exploding electronic cigarettes (e-cigs) injuries serious burns and other injuries related to lithium-ion batteries
- Victims of sex and human trafficking and/or sexual assault and battery
- We will review any catastrophic injury or wrongful death case of all types referred by co-counsel
Securities Fraud
Retirees and beneficiaries receiving retirement benefits from International Paper Company, Pactiv or Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Toxic Exposure
Communities, companies, and governmental entities impacted by environmental contamination by toxic constituents due to corporate negligence, including per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), or perflourinated chemicals