ArticlesLast Updated: September 4, 2026 We get this question every week, usually from a woman who has used relaxers since she was a girl and has just been handed a cancer diagnosis. The honest answer is that qualifying comes down to three things: what you were diagnosed with, how long and how often you used the products, and whether...
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ArticlesThe short answer, as of September 2026 No AFFF personal injury payouts have been made, and none are scheduled. There is no settlement fund for people who got sick, and no trial date on the calendar The billions you have read about are water utility money. 3M’s settlement pays public water systems to clean up contamination. It pays nothing...
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ArticlesLast Updated: September 4, 2026 On August 26, 2026, eight days into testimony in Oakland, Meta settled the case brought by 51 state attorneys general for $16.7 billion. It is the largest payment any social media company has made over harm to children, and it ended a trial that was supposed to run into October. Our phones started ringing...
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ArticlesOzempic Lawsuit — September 2026 Status Two separate cases: 4,022 lawsuits over gastrointestinal injuries sit in MDL 3094, and 216 lawsuits over sudden vision loss sit in MDL 3163. Both are before Judge Karen S. Marston in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, but they are years apart in maturity The decisive moment is now: from September 10 through 18,...
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ArticlesAlabama recognizes two very different lawsuits when someone is hurt and later dies: the wrongful death claim and the survival action. They answer different questions, pay different damages to different people, and, in a rule that traps the unwary, Alabama handles the survival side unlike almost any other state. Families who understand the difference protect claims that others lose...
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ArticlesMost Alabama wrongful death cases resolve within one to three years, with strong, clear-liability cases sometimes settling in under a year and complex corporate cases running longer. But the honest answer is that the timeline is built from stages, each with its own clock, and families who understand the stages stop feeling lost inside the process. Here is the...
Continue Reading ArticlesWritten by Fob James IV, Esq. | Fob James Law Firm, LLC | Last Updated: September 4, 2026 Hair Relaxer Litigation — September 2026 Status No settlement exists. No global settlement has been announced and no plaintiff has been paid through the MDL 12,129 cases are pending in MDL 3060 as of the September 1, 2026 JPML report before...
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ArticlesAlabama is one of the most heavily forested states in the country, with timberland covering roughly two-thirds of the state, and that timber moves on trucks. Log trucks are a daily presence on rural highways from Clanton to Camden, and they combine nearly every risk factor in trucking: extreme weights, shifting cylindrical cargo, slow entries onto fast two-lane roads,...
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ArticlesSomewhere in the stack of papers your family signed on admission day, there is probably an arbitration agreement, a clause designed to move any future abuse or neglect case out of an Alabama courtroom and away from an Alabama jury. Facilities count on families never reading it, and later, on believing that a signature ended their rights. Neither is...
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ArticlesAfter an Alabama truck accident, the driver is almost never the only party who owes you money, and often isn’t even the most important one. As many as nine different parties can share liability, each with its own insurance policy, and the difference between a driver-only claim and a full multi-defendant case is frequently measured in hundreds of thousands...
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