Newsworthy Cases
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Jeff Embry and George P. Cowden, IV Recognized as Number 13 in The Top 50 Verdicts in Texas in 2016
Jeff Embry and George P. Cowden, IV, of Hossley & Embry, LLP were recognized as number 13 in the Top 50 verdicts in Texas in 2016 by TopVerdict.com for their work on the case Hinson vs. Dorel Juvenile Group. You can learn more about the personal injury/product liability case here.
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Jeff Embry Featured in Trial Magazine for Case Against Car Seat Manufacturer Dorel
Hossley Embry recently achieved two separate jury verdicts totaling $34.4 million on behalf of their clients, Nicole and Cameron Hinson, whose son Cayden was paralyzed in a car wreck while restrained in a Dorel forward-facing car seat. Pursuing a failure-to-warn theory against the car manufacturer, Dorel Juvenile Grp., Inc., Jeff Embry asserted that the company Read More
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Tyler, Texas – Daughters Mourn Mother’s Vioxx-Related Death
Tyler, Texas – Daughters Mourn Mother’s Vioxx-Related Death Today, Vioxx is known for the incredible danger it posed to consumers. Approved in 1999 by the FDA and taken off the market just 5 years later, the drug was found to more than double the risk of heart attack and death in users in one study. Read More
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Hossley & Embry Achieves $34.4 Million Verdict Against Car Seat Manufacturer, Dorel Juvenile Inc.
Yahoo Finance also covered the story here. On Friday afternoon, a jury in Marshall, Texas reached two separate verdicts totaling $34.4 million in a case in which a toddler was permanently paralyzed after being seated in a Dorel Juvenile Inc. Safety 1st Summit car seat during a May 2013 auto accident. The child’s mother, Nicole Read More
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Hossley Embry Files 14 Lawsuits against Volkswagen
Yesterday, we officially filed 14 separate lawsuits related to the ongoing Volkswagen emissions scandal. We are seeking damages for fraud and financial loss on behalf of our clients who were duped by Volkswagen and will now face diminished resale values and significant out-of-pocket costs for repairs. As a result, the media is beginning to take Read More
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LA Times Coverage: Toyota Rollover Case
$1.5 Million Toyota Rollover Case Reveals Company Secrets Back in 2006, Jeff Embry worked on Pennie Green’s personal injury case. On an otherwise ordinary trip to the movies with her cousin just outside of Fort Worth, Texas, a car turned in front of her without warning and forced her vehicle into a rollover. In the Read More
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FOX News: H&E Represents Drunk Driving Victim
Drunk Driver Kills Mother of Two in San Antonio Most of us know that drunk driving is a problem in the United States. In fact, nearly 10,000 people were killed in alcohol-impaired driving crashes in 2014 alone, and drunk driving accounts for nearly one-third of all traffic-related deaths in the United States each year. But Read More
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Miss. Jury Awards $1 Million to Asbestos Plaintiff in Case Against Union Carbide
FAYETTE, Miss. –– A Mississippi jury has awarded just over $1 million to an asbestos plaintiff, accepting the plaintiff’s claims that exposure to Union Carbide’s Visbestos and Super Visbestos in viscosifiers led him to develop asbestosis. The Mississippi Circuit Court for Jefferson County jury reached the verdict on Feb. 24, sources said. Union Carbide with Read More
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Wal-Mart to Nix Request for Injured Toddler
The giant retailer had asked federal court to have parents of partially paralyzed toddler bring child to jury selection in gross negligence case.
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Are You in the Red?
The legal problems for Syngenta have been growing as more farmers and businesses take action to sue the company after a genetically modified seed was placed on the market before China approved it. Read more.
