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Motley Rice co-founder Joe Rice comments on BP's paid advertising publicity and direct letter campaign to attorneys and claimants in response to its ongoing dispute with the Court over the interpretation of the Business Economic Loss calculation procedures included in the Economic and Property Damages Class Action Settlement.

A recent, alarming article by Bloomberg suggests that C.R. Bard’s (BCR) Davol unit knew that the plastic it used in its Avaulta line of transvaginal (pelvic) mesh devices was unsafe to be permanently implanted in humans.

On Thursday, June 20, 2013, the 9/11 Families United to Bankrupt Terrorism asked President Barack Obama in a formal letter to bring transparency to the segment of the 9/11 investigations dealing with aid and support for the 19 hijackers.

Our thoughts are with the survivors and families of the victims involved in a a devastating chemical explosion that occurred in Geismar, La., 30 miles southeast of Baton Rouge at Williams Chemical Plant on June 13, 2013.

Authorities in Boone, N.C., stated on Monday, June 10, 2013, that carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room at the Best Western Plus Blue Ridge Plaza may be responsible for the death of an 11-year-old boy and the hospitalization of his mother on Saturday, June 8, as well as the deaths of a couple mysteriously found in the same room earlier this year.

The Steering Committee of the 9/11 Families United to Bankrupt Terrorism released a statement on Thursday, June 6, 2013, demanding that the FBI ‘come clean’ about its investigation of a Saudi family that was living in Sarasota, Fla., and may have provided assistance to the hijackers who carried out the 9/11 attacks.

It is estimated that more than two million women in the United States have used the Mirena IUD device in the past ten years.

U.S. District Judge Nina Gershon ruled that the case against Arab Bank plc for its alleged involvement in financing terrorist activity will be allowed to proceed to a trial by jury.

All of us at Motley Rice would like to take this moment to extend our deepest sympathies to the families, friends and colleagues still mourning the loss of the men who perished on April 20, 2010, and offer our respects to the many people, business and communities that have endured, and continue to endure, great hardship because of the spill.

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.