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• Allstate Ordered to Refund $56 Million

  Craig Cherry | March 15, 2007 12:00 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  A Travis County, Texas District Judge ordered Allstate Insurance to refund approximately $56,000,000.00 in overcharges to policyholders. The order is, in part, the result of ongoing litigation that began in December 2004 after the Texas Department of Insurance disapproved Allstate's proposed rate increase of five percent. The order requires Allstate to also pay interest to policyholders at an...

• Ford Recalls Police Cars With Defective Wheels

  Craig Cherry | March 14, 2007 9:03 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Ford Motor Company is in the process of recalling nearly 110,000 Crown Victoria police cruisers as a result of a wheel defect. The wheel defect can cause a rapid loss of tire pressure during high-speed pursuits due to cracks developing in the steel wheels.The recall affects only certain 2003-2005 year model Crown Victorias. According to Ford, the wheel defect has been linked to at least two...

• Construction Workers Lift Bus to Save Girl

  Christina Cole | March 11, 2007 6:09 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)

  After a collision involving a car and bus on Tuesday, construction workers came to the rescue of a five-year-old-girl who was pinned under the bus, managing to free her.A car ran a red light and smashed into a Primrose School bus causing it to roll over, said Police. Nine people were hurt in the crash, including seven children ages five and six and two adults.Nearby construction workers used...

• Chrysler Recalls Nearly 500,000 Vehicles

  Craig Cherry | March 10, 2007 7:23 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Yesterday, Chrysler recalled nearly a half-million vehicles for a variety of reasons. After receiving over sixty reports of fires in 2004-2006 Dodge Durango SUVs, the SUVs are being recalled due to electrical overloads that are repeatedly occurring in the driver's side instrument panel below the dashboard.The recall will involve more than 328,000 Dodge Durango SUVs. Chrysler is also recalling...

• Business Litigation Lawyers At Cherry & Jordan, LLP

  Craig Cherry | March 03, 2007 12:35 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  The attorneys at our firm have handled a wide variety of business litigation matters including breach of contract, misrepresentation, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, conversion and misappropriation of trade secrets.Just last year, my partner Dudley Jordan defended the president of a local insurance company after he was sued by his former business partner. Dudley not only got a jury finding in...

• Atlanta Bus Accident Kills 6, Injures 29

  Craig Cherry | March 03, 2007 6:30 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)

  A motorcoach charter bus carrying a college baseball team from Ohio drove off an overpass in Atlanta, Georgia yesterday killing six and injuring twenty-nine others. Many of the passengers are believed to have been fully or partially ejected from the bus. Of the six bus passengers killed, four were students from Bluffton University. The bus driver and his wife were also killed. Twenty-eight...