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The husband of Nida Fatin Binti Mat Asis filed a wrongful death suit, one year after metal shrapnel from a defective Takata airbag allegedly struck her during a one car accident. The accident tragically claimed her life in what otherwise should have been a minor collision with minimal injuries.

A wrongful death suit has been filed on behalf of the widow of 63-year-old Alton Ray Zeigler, a Richland County husband, father and grandfather tragically killed during a violent explosion Dec. 6, 2016 at a South Carolina branch of Eastman Chemical Company.

Motley Rice filed a wrongful death suit against the U.S. government in the wake of the mid-air collision that tragically claimed the lives of 68-year-old Michael Johnson and his 30-year-old son Joseph Johnson minutes after the pair departed Berkeley County Airport.

The Supreme Court granted the petition for a writ of certiorari filed on behalf of approximately 6,000 persons injured or family members of people killed in terrorist attacks between January 1995 and July 2005 against Jordan-based Arab Bank PLC.

Medical attorney Jonathan Orent has been appointed as lead counsel and a member of the Plaintiffs Executive Committee for hernia mesh multidistrict litigation filed against medical device manufacturer Atrium Medical Corp.

Today, the family of Phillip “Phil” Andrew Wallace, 51, a Mt. Pleasant man and beloved Lowcountry chef, filed a civil suit seeking answers and accountability for his untimely death nearly five months ago on the Isle of Palms Connector.

Linda Singer, a former Washington, D.C. Attorney General, who has worked on Public Client cases at a private firm for than eight years, recently joined Motley Rice to lead the firm’s new Public Client practice.

Motley Rice LLC is bolstering its experience representing public entities in consumer and financial fraud, health care and other litigation by adding two new member attorneys and expanding its Washington, D.C. office.

U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle certified a class of people and entities that have paid fees for court records from PACER, a federal court records service. The class action was filed in April 2016 by three nonprofit groups that allege the PACER fees were excessive.

Judge Winifred Y. Smith in Superior Court of California, County of Alameda, appointed medical device attorney Fidelma Fitzpatrick as Lead Counsel of the Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee for the coordinated Essure® litigation in California against Bayer Corp.