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On February 4, 2018 at approximately 2:35 a.m., Amtrak passenger train 91, known as the Silver Star, crashed into a CSX freight train in Cayce, South Carolina, a suburb of Columbia, South Carolina.

An Amtrak train traveling from New York to Miami, Florida derailed in Columbia, S.C., killing two Amtrak workers and injuring more than 100 passengers. The incident happened near the S.C. State Farmers Market when the train collided with a stationary CSX freight train.

Motley Rice has been appointed lead counsel for Twitter Inc., shareholders who allege they were misled about the social media network’s daily user growth during 2015.

We trust companies to protect our most personal information. As such, they should take steps to protect consumers. However, in an announcement last year, Equifax claimed that a security lapse on its part exposed the data of more than half the country. If that wasn’t enough, experts recently discovered two major security flaws, Meltdown and Spectre, that could potentially give attackers access to nearly all of the world’s computers and mobile devices.

An appeals court revived litigation brought by a group of institutional investors who allege operators of U.S. stock exchanges and high-frequency traders manipulated the U.S. equities markets.

Motley Rice co-founder Joe Rice has been appointed co-lead counsel in the National Prescription Opiate Litigation.

As we reflect on the past year, I invite you to peruse our blog and explore my colleagues’ musings on some of the leading legal, consumer and public health-related issues of today.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Honda have confirmed a fatal accident in Baton Rouge, La., was a result of a defective Takata airbag. The death is the 20th linked to a defective Takata airbag worldwide.

Thirty new hernia mesh patients and their families have joined the Ethicon Physiomesh® multidistrict litigation, bringing the number of Plaintiffs in the MDL to more than 300.

Two medical attorneys have been appointed to the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee for litigation alleging harm caused by hernia mesh products.