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Last week, Ken Feinberg, administrator of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF), was questioned by local fishermen during his two-day visit to Mississippi and southern Louisiana about allegedly sluggish payments and rejected claims.

Motley Rice attorney Mike Elsner comments on why negligence lawsuits against the federal government in an anthrax case may be warranted.

According to a report by the Associated Press, the U.S. Homeland Security Department plans to discontinue the use of color-coded terror threat alerts, an eight-year-old system designed to communicate threat levels to safety officials and the public.

Motley Rice attorney Gregg Levin comments on the rise in corporate scandals that has led to a consequent rise in securities litigation cases. Attributing the scandal boom to increased shareholder vigilance, Levin expects the uncovering of corporate fraud to continue and says that the resulting litigation will be the…

On Jan. 6, 2011, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) published a study addressing the alleged magnitude of reported and unreported mesothelioma cases worldwide.

Motley Rice attorney Joe Rice is profiled by the Charleston Post & Courier as a man who came from humble beginnings before becoming a founding member of his own firm.

Delaware companies linked to Harry Markopolos, the fraud investigator who tried for eight years to get the SEC to shut down Madoff's Ponzi scheme, have filed lawsuits against major banks alleging these banks defrauded public pension funds.

In November 2010, the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed implementing section 922 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act's whistleblower program.

The federal judge overseeing the multidistrict litigation (MDL) against Davol, Inc. and C.R. Bard, Inc., Judge Mary M. Lisi, denied the companies' bid for a new trial.

On Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011, Administrator of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF) Kenneth Feinberg announced new proposed criteria that the GCCF plans to use moving forward.