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Motley Rice attorneys, along with co-counsel, secured a $131 million settlement with Sprint for institutional investors. The plaintiffs alleged that the company misled them about the progress of its merger with Nextel.

On March 24, 2015, Germanwings Flight 4U 9525 crashed approximately 52 minutes after takeoff near the remote towns of Barcelonnette and Digne-les-Bains in the French Alps.

Air Canada Flight 624, an Airbus 320, landed short of the runway at Halifax Stanfield International Airport in Nova Scotia.

Motley Rice LLC announces three attorneys, T. David Hoyle (FL, GA, SC), James W. Ledlie (DC, SC, WV) and Lance Oliver (AL, DC, FL, SC), have become members of the firm.

Motley Rice reached a $100 million aggregate settlement with Lorillard Tobacco Company, Philip Morris USA, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, for approximately 400 Engle-progeny tobacco cases pending in the Florida federal district court.

On Jan. 30, 2015, Motley Rice attorneys filed a reply in support of an emergency motion for preservation of evidence of Takata airbags and inflators.

Jury finds Philip Morris liable in Engle-progeny cigarette case; awards disabled woman $17.2 million in compensatory and punitive damages

U.S. Supreme Court denies KBR’s request to consider contractual issues regarding liability

Motley Rice files first Takata airbag personal injury federal action in South Carolina involving shrapnel.

Attorneys with Motley Rice LLC have played a central role in the litigation against Travelers. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit confirms $500 million asbestos judgment against Travelers.