Texas Personal Injury Lawyers
Q: there is a news that "Texas personal injury lawyer has found a new and highly ingenious way to take a big byte out of the laptop computer industry: File a phantom class-action lawsuit for consumers over a problem they've never encountered. " I am just be particularly down on the legal profession in general and the Texas justice system in particular. I just read the above news. Lawsuits and lawyers like this? No place but Texas
A: The man who helped represent Texas in its lawsuit against Big Tobacco, managed to extract a $2.1 billion settlement from Toshiba Corp., after he filed a $9.5 billion lawsuit on behalf of 5 million consumers. Toshiba, the world's leading maker of laptop computers, decided to settle the suit late last month rather than take the risk of losing a bigger bundle in a Texas courtroom. As a result, he and a handful of lawyers at the Beaumont firm of Orgain, Bell & Tucker will divvy up $147.5 million in contingency fees. Toshiba agreed to give cash rebates ranging from $210 to $443 to an estimated 1.8 million owners of Toshiba notebook computers bought since March 5, 1998, and to make discount coupons available to an additional 3.2 million owners. The lawsuit was filed last March in federal court in Beaumont for two lead-plaintiffs who own Toshiba laptops -- a Beaumont lawyer, and one, who lives in the Dallas suburb of Plano.