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Tanning Beds Substantially Raise Skin Cancer Risks
NPR: Tanning Beds Substantially Raise Skin Cancer Risks.
New research finds people who frequent tanning salons significantly increase their risk of getting melanoma, one of the most aggressive and deadliest cancers.
Learn more about Seeger Weiss’s investigation here.
BP Oil Spill Legal Network
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Chinese Drywall News Roundup
AP: La. family with drywall-tainted home awarded $164K
“The award he gave is going to be more than sufficient to remedy the Hernandez home,” said plaintiffs’ attorney Christopher Seeger.
Wall Street Journal: Chinese Drywall Maker Says It Is in Talks With Builders
The homeowner will also receive money for damaged property and be reimbursed for living expenses and attorney and court fees, said Chris Seeger, the attorney representing the Hernandez family.
This “creates a problem in that [KPT is] not going to get out cheap like they want to,” he said.
Wall Street Journal Law Blog: Justice Near for the Prisoners of Chinese Drywall?
“Seeger…dramatically compared the drywall to a ‘poltergeist’ taking over and slowly destroying the Hernandez’s Mandeville, La., home.”
Miami Herald: Court ruling gives boost to victims of bad drywall
“These initial decisions in Louisiana are hugely important for thousands of homeowners who have been living with the poltergeist effects caused by this defective material in their midst,” said the Hernandezes attorney, Christopher Seeger.
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Second Bellwether Chinese Drywall Victory
Federal judge awards Hernandez family $164,049 in bellwether Chinese drywall case. Congrats to Chris Seeger, Jeff Grand, and many others! Learn more by reading our press release:
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Seeger Weiss secures bellwether $2.6 million verdict in Chinese drywall case
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As First Drywall Trial Concludes, Media Takes Notice
Business Weekly: “Chinese Drywall Maker Should Pay for Home Damage, Lawyer Argues”
Knauf Plasterboard Tianjin Co., a Chinese drywall manufacturer, should pay to restore a Louisiana house to its original condition, before corrosive gases from the product “shattered the dreams” of the family that lived in it, their lawyer said.
“Let’s just give them the house that they had, that they built until they installed the defective Chinese dry wall,” Chris Seeger, the lawyer for Tatum and Charlene Hernandez, said today in a closing statement at the end of a weeklong trial in U.S. District Court in New Orleans.
Seeger asked U.S. District Judge Eldon Fallon, who will determine the case without a jury, to approve a $200,000 remediation plan for the home.
Sarasota Herald Tribune: “Drywall repair estimates for one house vary by $142,000″
But during a bruising cross-examination, the details of Carubba [the expert hired by KPT]’s own methods — and even his truthfulness — were called into question by Chris Seeger, one of the lead plaintiffs’ attorneys.
Sarasota Herald Tribune: Louisiana man testifies about drywall in his “dream house”
All the family wants, he said, is their house fixed.
“We just want to drive up at home like we used to, and say we’re home, this is our safe place,” he said.
“All my life savings, it all went into Madoff and it is all gone.”
“Madoff Judge Endorses Trustee’s Rule on Losses,” from the New York Times:
The ruling is a setback for investors like Adele Fox of Tamarac, Fla., an 87-year-old retired school secretary who was widowed in 1986. Mrs. Fox withdrew more than her original capital for living expenses, but still had nearly $3 million on her account statement when the fraud was discovered.
Under Judge Lifland’s ruling, she is not eligible for cash from the Securities Investors Protection Corporation, the industry-financed organization that provides limited protection for customers of failed Wall Street firms.
“My health has been a mess,” Mrs. Fox said on Monday. “I can manage, more or less, but if I have to go into a facility, what would I do? All my life savings, it all went into Madoff and it is all gone.”
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