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trippfirm / Posted on April 11, 2013 /

STATEWIDE – Injured in a slip and fall or trip and fall at a Dollar Tree Store? Dollar Tree has a history of failing to follow industry standards for stocking merchandise and failing to properly build merchandise displays. If you were injured because of the negligence of Dollar Tree, you may have a case and may…

Parents Warned: Bounce Houses Pose Lead Hazard to Children

trippfirm / Posted on August 17, 2010 /

NATIONAL – An investigation by the Center for Environmental Health (CEH) has prompted lawsuits to be filed today by CEH and the California Attorney General against leading makers, distributors and suppliers of bounce houses (also called jump houses or inflatable jumpers). CEH testing found one bounce house contained more than 70 times the federal limit…

The Truth about Lawsuits

trippfirm / Posted on March 26, 2010 /

Big Corporations and Their Powerful CEOs Say the Legal System Is In Crisis – They claim that lawyers and “frivolous” lawsuits are clogging the courts, bankrupting large corporations and costing our economy thousands of jobs. The Real Crisis: Your Rights Are Under Attack In fact, the real reason these special interests support so-called tort “reform”…

“Lost value” lawsuits seen as most significant source of liability for Toyota

trippfirm / Posted on February 23, 2010 /

NATIONAL – In a column in Forbes (2/22), analytical services company Oxford Analytica wrote that lawsuits against Toyota will include “traditional product liability claims,” as well as “claims that seek to recover cars’ ‘lost value’” and “shareholder suits that seek to recover for the drop in the company’s share price.” The column assesses the lost…

Federal judge DENIES Toyota’s bid to seal whistleblower lawsuit

trippfirm / Posted on September 18, 2009 /

NATIONAL – Toyota Motor Corp.’s request to seal a U.S. lawsuit by a former in-house attorney claiming the carmaker destroyed crash data was denied yesterday by a judge who said the suit was already ‘irreversibly’ public. The suit, filed in July by Dimitrios Biller, a former Toyota in-house lawyer, claims the world’s largest automaker hid…

Some consumers suing banks over debit overdraft fees

trippfirm / Posted on September 9, 2009 /

According to the The New York Times (9/9, A1, Lieber, Martin) reports on the increased incidence of banks charging hefty fees when customers overdraw their accounts with debit card purchases, noting that “this year alone, banks are expected to bring in $27 billion by covering overdrafts on checking accounts, typically on debit card purchases or…

Florida Lt. Governer Jeff Kottkamp joins Chinese drywall suit.

trippfirm / Posted on September 3, 2009 /

FT. MYERS – The South Florida Business Journal (9/2, Brinkmann) reported, “Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp has joined hundreds of other Floridians in filing suit over defective Chinese drywall in his home.” He and his wife, “Cynthia Kottkamp, filed federal suit Monday in Fort Myers against manufacturer Knauf Gips KG and Knauf Plasterboard Tianjin Co. The…

Over 2000 lawsuits filed in Chinese drywall cases • U. S. Sen. Bill Nelson has discussed drywall issues with Chinese officials

trippfirm / Posted on August 20, 2009 /

STATEWIDE – The Jacksonville Business Journal (8/19) reported, “U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson said in a media release Tuesday he pressed Chinese officials in recent trips there to cooperate more fully in investigations of defective high-sulfur drywall that was made in China and is ruining homes in the United States.” While in Shanghai last week, “Nelson,…

Judge intent on “fast-tracking” Chinese drywall suits.

trippfirm / Posted on August 11, 2009 /

“About 600 tainted Chinese drywall lawsuits have been consolidated in multidistrict litigation under U.S. District Judge Eldon E. Fallon for pretrial issues.” Attorneys say that Fallon “is intent on fast-tracking a handful of cases for trial,” asking both sides “to select 10 cases to jump start the process of turning over documents and other information,”…

Chinese experts say drywall problems likely stem from synthetic gypsum • RECOVERY OF DAMAGES MAY PROVE DIFFICULT

trippfirm / Posted on July 1, 2009 /

The Wall Street Journal (7/1, Hagerty, McQueen) reports, “The odors, respiratory complaints and corrosion blamed on drywall from China used in American homes may have been caused by the failure to remove sulfur and other contaminants from synthetic gypsum, some Chinese experts in building materials say.” Yue Wenhai, vice president of the committee of gypsum…