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Motley Rice LLC is pleased to announce that several of its attorneys, who represent clients across an array of practice areas, have been recognized as 2016 South Carolina Super Lawyers® and Rising Stars, 2016 Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers and 2016 West Virginia Super Lawyers® Rising Stars lists.

ISS recognized Motley Rice for recovering the sixth highest aggregate amount for investors in U.S. securities fraud class actions.

Throughout the past year, there have been a number of incidents involving Allegiant Air, the low-cost carrier, that I am compelled to discuss.

Motley Rice aviation attorneys are reviewing the fatal crash of a sight-seeing helicopter on Monday, April 4, 2016 around 3:30 p.m.

On Sunday, an Amtrak train carrying 341 passengers and traveling from New York, NY, to Savannah, Ga., collided with a backhoe on the track south of Philadelphia. Two Amtrak construction workers were killed and 37 people were injured during the crash.

Off-label prescribing of drugs is a common occurrence. Thalidomide was widely prescribed off-label in the U.K. in the 1960’s for alleviating morning sickness before it was realized that thousands of pregnant women experienced side effects, including birth defects and infant death.

Motley Rice is proud to be on the National Law Journal’s 2016 Plaintiffs’ Hot List. Motley Rice is only one of two firms to make the list every year since 2012.

New reports indicate that the behind-the-scenes work that goes into roasting the perfect cup of coffee may be harming workers in commercial coffee roasting facilities.

Several years ago I stopped calling aviation disasters “airplane accidents.” There are airplane crashes, collisions, or disasters, but not “accidents;” nor are there incidents or mishaps.

A St. Louis, Missouri, jury awarded the family of a woman who passed away from ovarian cancer $72 million. The woman used Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder for more than 35 years before she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer.