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The easiest answer to that question is also the simplest: If you haven’t heard of the airline you are about to book, perhaps it’s better to step back and search for an airline you HAVE heard of. However, there are some places where you simply can’t get on a main-line carrier from a developed nation.

In a year of mixed court rulings in the field of human rights and anti-terrorism law, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia delivered a well-earned bright spot recently. The Court upheld the Security and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Final Rule enforcing Dodd-Frank Section 1502.

Motley Rice LLC, one of the nation’s largest plaintiffs’ litigation firms, is proud to announce that trial lawyer and co-founding member Ronald L. Motley has been named the 2013 recipient of the South Carolina Association for Justice (SCAJ) Founders’ Award.

From August 1 through 3, 2013, Motley Rice attorneys joined South Carolina trial lawyers and legal speakers on Hilton Head Island for the annual South Carolina Association for Justice (SCAJ) Convention, a 12-hour continuing legal education seminar.

Motley Rice asbestos attorney and member Nathan D. Finch has been named as the American Association for Justice (AAJ) Wiedemann and Wysocki Award winner.

The victims of the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash were probably stunned to learn that, unlike U.S. pilots, foreign airline pilots who crash a plane on U.S. soil do not have to be drug or alcohol tested.

In a recent article, reporter Alison Frankel discuses Motley Rice co-founder Joe Rice’s recent blog post “Just when you think you have seen it all.”

The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Veterans Health Administration announced earlier this week that they are extending the deadline for comments and recommendations on the proposed collection of information for the Open Burn Pit Registry. The new deadline is Aug. 30, 2013.

In the course of 30 years of practicing law I have never seen a corporate defendant backpedal on an agreed-to settlement to the extent BP is attempting to do in the Deepwater Horizon Economic and Property Damages Class Action Settlement. BP still doesn’t understand the law or the facts of this case.

Victims of air disasters must be very mindful of statutes of limitations (SOL) – deadlines by which they must act or some of their claims or rights may be lost. An often overlooked deadline is the deadline by which notice must be given to a city, county or state in which you have a claim. Some deadlines allow only a few months to give notice of a claim.