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As the New Year begins, Motley Rice securities fraud litigator Rebecca Katz will discuss "Shareholder Litigation: 2012 Year in Review" at the upcoming Florida Public Pension Trustees Association (FPPTA) Trustees School in Ponte Vedra Beach on Jan. 29, 2013.

On Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013, Deepwater Horizon Claims Administrator Patrick A. Juneau announced that, as of Friday, Feb. 1, 2013, the Court-Supervised Settlement Program for the Economic and Property Damages Settlement had sent more than $2 billion in eligibility notices to oil spill victims.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) published a notice announcing that the VA plans to conduct a study of the adverse health effects related to military deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan, including the potential for exposure to airborne hazards and burn pits.

More than a dozen states immediately followed the Justice Department in bringing suit against Standard & Poor's, the nation's largest rating agency, bringing their own massive lawsuits under state trade practices or unfair competition law.

Motley Rice member and securities fraud attorney Marlon Kimpson (SC) recently attended the American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF) Educational Seminar for African American Leaders in Israel.

On Feb. 27, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Amgen, Inc. v. Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds that plaintiffs do not need to prove the materiality of a defendant's false statements at the class certification stage of a securities fraud case.

A recent report by CBS News profiles 40-year-old LeRoy Torres, a former Texas state trooper and captain in the U.S. Army Reserves who was deployed for a year-long combat tour to Iraq in 2007. As soon as he returned home, he was hospitalized, suffering from breathing attacks

The U.S. government recently announced the addition of Saudi Arabia to the handful of countries whose travelers can bypass normal passport protocols at major U.S. airports as part of the Global Entry Trusted Traveler Program. Despite allegations and evidence of Saudi involvement in the 9/11 attacks, U.S. officials…

On the third day of Global Asbestos Awareness Week, law firm Motley Rice LLC welcomed Charleston Firefighter Support Team leader Chief Gerald Mishoe and “Big John,” a 1969 Mack CF600 fire truck that was restored in honor and memory of City of Charleston Fire Department Battalion Chief John Winn.

Motley Rice condemns the cowardly attacks at the Boston Marathon yesterday and commends the police, firefighters, other rescue workers, medical personnel and everyday heroes that ran to aid the injured and traumatized victims in the wake of these brutal and senseless bombings.