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Most recently, the national law firm Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman filed four actions Tuesday and Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina on behalf of employees and customers who claim their personally identifiable information was exposed during a cyberattack in March.

The Eighth Circuit noted several problems with the defendants' reliance on a pop-up window during contract signing, including a lack of information on where an agreement's arbitration clause may be, how many clicks were needed to find it, and whether their website changed.

"Dr. Sherri Studstill indicated that damages were a possibility but that she had not made any determination that Mr. Simmons had suffered any actual damages," Tennessee Court of Appeals Judge Jeffrey Usman wrote in a Dec. 3 opinion.

"It's got a horrible reputation for bad verdicts and it's a very antilawsuit place, but this case just transcended all of that," plaintiffs attorney Frank Swarr said of the wrongful-death case handled in St. Tammany Parish court in Louisiana.

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The verdict is believed to be the second largest personal injury verdict in Houston County history, behind a $20.5 million verdict against a pharmaceutical company in 2017.

"It's still shocking how often this happens," L. Chris Stewart of Stewart Miller Simmons Trial Attorneys in Atlanta said. "Key card security should be the number one measure if you work at that front desk, above anything else. The key cards are the priority, and it's not being taken as seriously as it should."

In more than 800 cases nationwide, federal and state courts have interpreted the phrase "direct physical loss" as requiring some physical alteration or damage to property. The North Carolina opinion's author, Justice Anita Earls, put the onus on the insurance companies to clearly indicate what is covered and excluded.

When a mother fatally fell over a guardrail at an Atlanta train station in February 2020, an initial police report was used as a basis to charge her boyfriend with murder for supposedly pushing her off an overpass. However, attorneys representing her daughter knew there was more to the story.

When a mother fatally fell over a guardrail at an Atlanta train station in February 2020, an initial police report was used as a basis to charge her boyfriend with murder for supposedly pushing her off an overpass. However, attorneys representing her daughter knew there was more to the story.