Hubbard &
Knight
Attorneys at Law
Anniston & Talladega
Alabama
Anniston 256-237-9586
Talladega 256-362-1152
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Attorneys at Law Anniston & Talladega Alabama Anniston 256-237-9586 Talladega 256-362-1152 |
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News
March 10, 2010 - We apologize for not updating this site regularly. We have been busy. For example we have three jury trial set within the next two months. We have tried one case in each of the last two weeks (as of March 10, 2010). September 8, 2009 - Talladega Office is in use, as is our main office in Anniston. August 17, 2009 - Jim Hubbard and Tim Knight struck a jury and started a trial in Talladega Circuit Court. Case was settled to our clients' satisfaction during the second day. July 2009 - We will try at least one jury trial in August, and hope to dispose of three jury cases by then, which are all set: we are ready on all three. We have a major trial in October that is occupying much time now, but we expect to be ready to go. Tim Knight once deposed Michael Jackson in Los Angeles in Federal case number CA-79-M-0084-E. Two of his brothers sat through the deposition as well.
September 2008 - We have had several successful jury trials since our last modification of this webpage. We have several jury cases we expect to try within the next three months. We are handling business and financial cases as well as personal injury, death and other tort cases. Our Talladega office is still under remodeling. November 2007 Jim Hubbard and Tim Knight are trying cases regularly in several East Alabama counties. We are working up for trial product defect, Guidant pacemaker, and Pharmaceutical cases against Wyeth, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Bayer and others. We intend to try several of these in the upcoming court year. We have railroad cases and traffic accident cases, together with other product liability and business dispute litigation ongoing. June 2006 - (have not updated website since March 2005). We have tried a number of cases since our last update of this website and will continue to try cases, jury and non-jury. March 2005 - A jury was struck on one of our Talladega cases on February 28, 2005 and the case was tried by jury for several days during that week with a verdict entered on Friday, March 4, 2005, in the sum of $390,637.00 plus interest. November 2004 - Our First Vioxx case was set to be the first to go to trial in the Nation. October 28, 2004 - The latest Verdict in favor of our client; was entered today by a jury in Talladega Circuit Court. The substantial verdict was nearly twice the offer made by the opposing party. (Amount confidential after settlement of the case). We continue to try jury cases if a fair settlement is not offered. October 15, 2004 - We are handling a number of Vioxx cases. Our first was filed August 22, 2003. Some are surprised that we have a case that old, when the drug was only recently removed from the market. Our experts identified Vioxx as the culprit in a sudden death case long before the present wave of news hit. We plan to try these cases quickly, or if the company changes its tactics now, settle, but in any event move with maximum speed to a resolution. August 26, 2004 - We have spent much of the week in Talladega for the Summer Jury term. The jury returned a verdict in our client's favor for $205,000 late Thursday, well over twice the opposing party's highest offer. On July 15, 2004 we succeeded in obtaining an order of Remand from Federal Court of a series of Monsanto PCB cases, upsetting the Monsanto strategy which was designed to draw all Monsanto PCB litigation into the Federal system under the aegis of the "Solutia" bankruptcy case pending in New York City. As a result of this ruling, Alabama PCB victims will not have to fear their cases being swamped in the turmoil of the distant bankruptcy. This required four different Federal Court hearings, at which Tim Knight represented claimants before several Federal Judges. Our Briefs and the Court's Orders will be available on-line linked to this site when digitized. The Federal Judge who wrote the July 15 Order noted: "This court can fathom no equitable reason for allowing indemnification by a bankrupt debtor whose existence was created by the indemnitee to create federal jurisdiction; particularly when the siring corporation's alleged misconduct, which forms the basis for the immediate action under consideration, contributed to the bankruptcy." Memorandum Opinion, page 28. The learned and thorough analysis by a highly respected and conservative federal judge should go a long way toward pushing Monsanto and its bevy of spun-off and merged corporations to make reasonable plans to compensate those injured by its acts and omissions. May 1, 2004 Report: We have had several successful jury trials since our last modification of this webpage. Substantial verdicts were entered in favor of our clients in major cases we tried in December 2003 and March of 2004, with our latest favorable jury verdict as of this writing on March 31, 2004. At our last edition, we had tried five cases since September 2002 with each verdict in favor of our clients being in six digits. A trial jury returned a verdict for $confidential for our client on February 24, 2003. Our latest verdict was $confidential on August 28, 2003 following a $confidential Verdict on April 29, 2003. Jim Hubbard's case of Cherokee Elec. Co-op. v. Cochran was recently discussed in American Law Reports in "Electrical Utility's Liability to Nonemployee for Personal Injury...from Exposure of Person or Motor Vehicle to Sagging or Downed Power Line" at 95 A.L.R.5th 29, §3a (2002). Jim Hubbard's famous closing argument in that case was appealed to the Supreme Court (706 So.2d 1188) but the Supreme Court affirmed the $3,000,000 verdict in favor of our client. This holding was discussed as one of the largest Alabama verdicts of its kind by the Supreme Court in an analysis of large verdicts. Tillis Trucking Co., Inc. v. Moses 748 So.2d 874. The Federal Court recently found in our client's favor in Melvin v. Mastercraft, et al. and declared that a Coosa River motorboat inflicted injury was not a proper subject of Federal Jurisdiction -- thus allowing our case to go forward in the local court. CV-01-N-3375-E, January 13, 2003. Tim Knight's case of Burns v. Windsor, 31 F.3d 1092, has become the most cited Eleventh Circuit case on amount-in-controversy federal removal jurisdiction (cited 88 times by Federal Courts according to West Law Publishing Co.). See, e.g., Fowler v. Provident Life and Accident Ins. Co., 2003 WL 1821523, *2 (N.D.Ala.2003) March 10, 2003. Web ChangesThis is where we'll announce the most recent additions to our web site. If you've visited us before and want to know what's changed, take a look here first. |
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