Owners of businesses – large and small – relied on insurance to tide them over as coronavirus spread and cities and states imposed drastic but necessary “lock down” orders.  In extremely large numbers, insurers are denying these claims and business owners have no choice but to hire attorneys and look to the courts for relief.  As reported in the ABA Journal, the Lanier Law  Firm is taking the lead in this ground-breaking litigation as part of a nationwide legal consortium representing the dining and hospitality industry and also, major sports and entertainment franchises and their venues.

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Lanier: J&J needs to accept responsibility for victims of cancer-causing talc

HOUSTON, May 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Mark Lanier, the trial lawyer who earned the largest jury verdict to date on behalf of consumers who have developed cancer from talc-based cosmetics, welcomed an announcement by Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) that it would cease manufacturing products containing talc, but he added that more work is ahead for talc victims. Continue reading “Attorney Mark Lanier ‘Gratified but Not Yet Satisfied’ by Johnson & Johnson Decision to Discontinue Talc-Based Baby Powder” →

Lawsuit charges mining giant, real estate developers failed to warn homeowners about contamination

LAKELAND, Fla. – Homeowners in two central Florida neighborhoods built atop abandoned phosphate mines have filed a federal lawsuit against The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS), charging that the Minnesota-based company, as well as two real estate developers who are also defendants, failed to warn residents about widespread contamination in neighborhoods that were developed over reclaimed strip mines. Continue reading “Central Florida Homeowners Sue The Mosaic Company over Radiation Health Risks from Phosphate Mining” →