Cum Laude graduate of Cumberland School of Law, Pet Mackey is a civil trial litigation expert who represents plaintiffs in business and consumer tort, contracts and construction, employment disputes and insurance.
Consumer groups are opposing the insurance industry’s effort to lower reserve requirements. The Consumer Federation of America and the Center for Economic Justice are up in arms – they believe that…
A 10 week course to better explain to lay people how the legal system works – the People’s Law School – returns January 26 in Huntsville, Alabama. Huntsville’s Mayor, Tommy Battle, explains how the…
Two weeks after the area around the Kingston, Tn. steam plant was inundated with fly ash sludge after a holding pond ruptured, news has surfaced a TVA Inspector General had issued a report in…
By now, if you do not know who Bernie Madoff is, chances are you have been hibernating in a cave for the winter. This self professed financial scammer has been front page news world wide for his…
Residents of a subdivision in Tennessee located near the Kingston, Tn. Power Plant filed a lawsuit against the Tennessee Valley Authority seeking $165,000,000 in damages caused by the rupture of a…
Remember Dan Akroyd as Irving Mainway hawking safe toys such as Bag O’ Glass, Doggy Dentist and Mr. Skin-Grafter on Saturday Night Live? The joke was, nobody would sell toys that were as dangerous…
The red states in the Southeast and parts of the West (I guess that is just about all of them) lead the country in poverty levels and divorce, infant mortality, obesity and teen pregnancy rates. The…
A friend of mine recently told me that he had read about a jury awarding emotional distress damages in favor of a husband and wife whose home was improperly wired by an electrical…
It is your first trip to the State of Alabama. You have traveled to Mobile on a business trip. Your mission is to assess Alabama as apotential site for your company’s expansion. …
Youare buying a brand new home. Youare excited – you should be. Atclosing, the builder hands you a warranty on your new home. It may have been mentioned back whenyou first spoke with your…
Whenyou made a offer on your new home, your realtor no doubt pointed out that you could make your offersubject to a home inspection. Thatway, if you found something that you did not like, you had…
The next time a group supporting tort reform tells you that your vote will result in lower insurance rates for the professional being sued that they are looking to protect, ask a question. Of the…
