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The Environmental Protection Agency on Jan. 12, 2017 accused auto manufacturer Fiat Chrysler Automobiles of using software in certain 2014-2016 “EcoDiesel” vehicles in order to cheat federal and state emissions tests and bypass standards.

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.

More than 100 people were injured when a train partially came off its track and wrecked during morning rush hour Jan. 4, 2017 at the Atlantic Terminal Station in Brooklyn, New York, according to news reports.

Authorities are searching for a small plane, a Cessna Citation 525, which went missing over Lake Erie on Thursday evening after taking off from Cleveland’s lakefront airport.

A private plane crash in Port Orange, Fla., on a foggy evening, Dec. 27, 2016, tragically claimed two lives according to news reports.

On Nov. 16, 2016, U.S. District Judge Mary Scriven appointed Motley Rice member Jodi Westbrook Flowers as co-liaison counsel in the 21st Century Oncology data breach consolidation (In re 21st Century Oncology Data Breach, MDL 2737).

Medical attorney Fidelma Fitzpatrick discussed the latest in the ongoing Essure® litigation and the dangers potentially associated with the device as a guest Nov. 28, 2016 on Ringler Radio, hosted by Larry Cohen and co-host Joan Pagnano.

U.S. District Judge Freda L. Wolfson on Dec. 6, 2016 named Motley Rice medical attorney Carmen Scott to the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee for the talcum powder litigation.

For 7 years, Motley Rice has sponsored the MUSC Children’s Hospital “Kids Helping Kids” Card Project. The project has become an annual favorite, and for 2016, we are proud to be the Presenting Sponsor of the project.

Tennessean Ray Albright is perhaps best known for his service in the state senate from 1968-1994. Into his retirement, Albright was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a deadly lung disease he tragically developed 40 years after taking a job cutting steel at Combustion Engineering in 1953.