The Unraveling of a Drilling Mud Lawsuit
Smith County, MS: April 11 will mark the one-year anniversary of the
drilling mud trial
Thomas C. Brown Jr. v. Phillips 66 Company, et al. If the names don't spark recognition, the eventual amount of the jury award will: $322 million for plaintiff Brown, who alleged a diagnosis of asbestosis was triggered from his work as a mud engineer
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Rice Farmers Receive Historic Compensation for GMO Contamination
Birmingham, AL:
Bayer Cropscience has agreed to pay rice farmers from Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi a total of $750 million in an historic settlement after an experiment genetically modified type of rice escaped from one of its test fields and contaminated US crops
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Mississippi Man Awarded Record Asbestos Compensation
Jackson, MS: A jury recently awarded $322 million in
asbestos compensation to a Mississippi man who sued Chevron Phillips Chemical and Union Carbide Corp. after he allegedly inhaled asbestos fibers while he mixed drilling mud
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