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U.S. Supreme Court denies KBR’s request to consider contractual issues regarding liability

Motley Rice files first Takata airbag personal injury federal action in South Carolina involving shrapnel.

Attorneys with Motley Rice LLC have played a central role in the litigation against Travelers. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit confirms $500 million asbestos judgment against Travelers.

On Dec. 28, 2014, AirAsia flight QZ8501 traveling from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore lost contact with Indonesian air traffic control.

In its premiere issue of Litigation Trailblazers & Pioneers, the National Law Journal recognized both Motley Rice co-founder Joe Rice and member Michael Elsner.

Upon request by the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Solicitor General submitted a brief on Dec. 18, 2014 providing his opinion that burn pit cases be remanded to the U.S. District Court for further proceedings.

Nine months of negotiations, an agreed-upon set of purchase terms and clinical trials already in progress according to FDA requirements—if a drug manufacturer has completed all of these in anticipation of purchasing the rights to a drug, is that proof enough that it was prepared and intended to enter the pharmaceutical market with it?

GM’s ignition switch defect has now been linked to 38 deaths. The ignition switch problem was so obvious that customers, journalists and even GM employees were reporting the problem a decade before GM finally admitted the issue and recalled the cars.

Judge Brian M. Cogan set a schedule to complete discovery and begin a trial on May 18, 2015, to determine the amount of damages resulting from Arab Bank, PLC’s role in financing three Hamas attacks that killed and injured U.S. citizens.

Today, the United States Supreme Court announced that it has denied BP’s request to hear the case regarding the validity of the Economic and Property Damages Settlement Agreement in In re Oil Spill by the Oil Rig “Deepwater Horizon.”