Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
A Las Vegas judge on Wednesday preserved a majority of the public record in a case between TeamHealth and UnitedHealthcare that recently rendered a $63 million jury verdict for three groups of ER physicians over reimbursement rates. The ruling reflects the vast public interest the case has garnered from doctors in Texas and beyond as they consider their own legal rights against insurers.
Kat Li now is the seventh Texas-based lawyer in Kirkland's growing intellectual property practice group. She joins from McKool Smith.
Civil jury trials in Dallas County were halted Monday until Jan. 28 in light of the “high number of Covid cases and the wildfire spread” of the Omicron variant and other Texas courts were proceeding with restraint.
Schwegmann, who joined the firm in 2005, previously served as Lynn Pinker's general counsel and succeeds Eric Pinker, who served as managing partner for 21 years.
A trade secrets battle between two Houston companies in the energy industry ended Tuesday with a 40-page order by a local federal judge. The ruling was a win for a team of lawyers at Bracewell.
When we turned the page on 2020, the promise was to get 2020 behind us, if nothing else. For trial lawyers that meant getting back to the courtroom. Not all did, but the significant cases and significant verdicts involving Texas lawyers showed a promising horizon: Not so cloudy, even perhaps for the lawyer starting his case by pleading he was not a cat.
A Delaware chancery judge Wednesday ordered Dallas-based Energy Transfer to pay Tulsa-based The Williams Companies a $410 million breakup fee for the megamerger between the two companies that Energy Transfer called off in 2016 after market conditions in the energy industry became abysmal. The decision follows a six-day trial in May in Delaware that The Texas Lawbook covered in-depth.
Just weeks after a Harris County jury held Hilton 90% liable in the sexual assault of a Cleveland woman, the hotel chain settled with the victim for an undisclosed sum. By settling, experts say, Hilton is hoping the horrific details presented in court will "quietly go away."
The plaintiff, who was injured in 2016 while putting a bariatric patient into a wheelchair, was represented by a team of lawyers at Houston firm Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Agosto, Aziz & Stogner.
The verdict by a federal jury in Florida is the largest to date in an ongoing wave of suits alleging that 3M sold the U.S. government faulty protective equipment, resulting in hearing damage to thousands of military personnel.
After finding last week that the insurance giant acted with malice, oppression and fraud in setting low reimbursement rates for claims submitted by the plaintiff physicians, the jury reconvened Tuesday to decide punitive damages.
Toyota Motor Corp has reached a settlement in a case on appeal in which a Dallas family obtained a $213 million judgment in a car crash case, according to a joint motion the parties filed with the Supreme Court of Texas on Wednesday. The settlement agreement follows the preservation of the nine-figure judgment this summer in Dallas’ Fifth Court of Appeals and a 2018 jury trial that rendered a $242 million verdict for Benjamin and Kristi Reavis and their two young children, Emily and Owen, who suffered permanent brain damage after a 2016 rear-end crash in the family’s Lexus ES 300.
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