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Liskow Secures Summary Judgment Win Affirming Statutory Employer Status
Liskow & Lewis are most popular: within Insurance topic(s) with Senior Company Executives, HR and Finance and Tax Executives with readers working within the Accounting & Consultancy, Aerospace & Defence and Environment & Waste Management industries Liskow secured a complete summary judgment for Methanex in a personal injury suit, Knight v. Turner Industries Group, L.L.C., et al., No. 23-469 (M.D. La.).
Liskow Secures Success On Summary Judgement Motion, Dismissing The Entirety Of Plaintiffs' Personal Injury Claims, With Prejudice
Liskow lawyers Cherrell Taplin and Melanie Derefinko recently secured a ruling in their favor dismissing the entirety of Plaintiffs' claims against Liskow's client, ExxonMobil Product Solutions Company ("ExxonMobil"). Gerren Jenkins, along with his wife and children, initiated the personal injury lawsuit against ExxonMobil, Gulf Intermodal Services, LLC, and Park Avenue Intermodal, LLC.
Liskow Secures Success on Summary Judgement Motion, Dismissing the Entirety of Plaintiffs’ Personal Injury Claims, with Prejudice
Liskow lawyers Cherrell Taplin and Melanie Derefinko recently secured a ruling in their favor dismissing the entirety of Plaintiffs’ claims against Liskow’s client, ExxonMobil Product Solutions Company (“ExxonMobil”). Gerren Jenkins, along with his wife and children, initiated the personal injury lawsuit against ExxonMobil, Gulf Intermodal Services, LLC, and Park Avenue Intermodal, LLC.
All Bark And No Bite: Middle District Finds Conclusory Intentional Tort Allegations Against Employer Insufficient To Prevent Removal On Improper Joinder Grounds - Professional Negligence - United States
Listen to this post On March 11, 2024, Liskow lawyers Kathryn Gonski and Melanie Derefinko secured the denial of a motion to remand on improper joinder grounds and the dismissal of an intentional tort claim against Methanex, a major Louisiana plant owner, in Knight v. Turner Industries Group, L.L.C., et al., No. 23-469 (M.D. La.).
All Bark and No Bite: Middle District Finds Conclusory Intentional Tort Allegations Against Employer Insufficient to Prevent Removal on Improper Joinder Grounds
On March 11, 2024, Liskow lawyers Kathryn Gonski and Melanie Derefinko secured the denial of a motion to remand on improper joinder grounds and the dismissal of an intentional tort claim against Methanex, a major Louisiana plant owner, in Knight v. Turner Industries Group, L.L.C., et al., No. 23-469 (M.D. La.).
All Bark and No Bite: Middle District Finds Conclusory Intentional Tort Allegations Against Employer Insufficient to Prevent Removal on Improper Joinder Grounds
On March 11, 2024, Liskow lawyers Kathryn Gonski and Melanie Derefinko secured the denial of a motion to remand on improper joinder grounds and the dismissal of an intentional tort claim against Methanex, a major Louisiana plant owner, in Knight v. Turner Industries Group, L.L.C., et al., No. 23-469 (M.D. La.).
Supreme Court Punts on Important Arbitrability Question | JD Supra
On January 25, 2021, the United States Supreme Court dismissed, as “improvidently granted,” a writ of certiorari it had previously granted on a petition asking it to consider “[w]hether a provision in an arbitration agreement that exempts certain claims from arbitration negates an otherwise clear and unmistakable delegation of questions of arbitrability to an arbitrator.” Henry Schein, Inc. v. Archer & White Sales, Inc., 592 U.S.___ (2021) (“Henry Schein II”).
Supreme Court Punts on Important Arbitrability Question
On January 25, 2021, the United States Supreme Court dismissed, as “improvidently granted,” a writ of certiorari it had previously granted on a petition asking it to consider “[w]hether a provision in an arbitration agreement that exempts certain claims from arbitration negates an otherwise clear and unmistakable delegation of questions of arbitrability to an arbitrator.” Henry Schein, Inc. v. Archer & White Sales, Inc., 592 U.S.___ (2021) (“Henry Schein II”).
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