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About this office: Huddleston Bolen LLP is a full-service regional law firm representing leading global corporations, national companies, entrepreneurs, and individuals. Our lawyers serve clients from offices in Huntington and Charleston, West Virginia, and Louisville and Ashland, Kentucky. The firm has a renowned Litigation Group, known for trying the toughest cases in the toughest venues in the country, with an outstanding record of success. The Group provides a full array of litigation services to transportation companies, insurance carriers, natural resource clients, manufacturers, banks, health care providers, and other businesses. Huddleston Bolen's Business Group offers services focused on meeting the needs of privately held companies and regional businesses in areas, including: corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, contracts, bankruptcy and creditor rights, tax, real estate, eminent domain, banking, securities, corporate governance, and trusts and estates. To understand our client's business, we have established several industry groups, including the firm's Railroad Practice, which is the largest and one of the oldest in the nation; a Natural Resource Practice, representing land holding companies and other owners of mineral rights; a Health Care Practice, representing hospitals, medical groups, and physicians; and a Banking and Finance practice, representing the interests of regional banks, credit unions, and other creditors. For nearly 130 years, Huddleston Bolen lawyers have dedicated themselves to providing clients with the highest levels of legal representation and customer service. That legacy, begun in 1871 on the eastern banks of the Ohio River, continues today, as we serve our clients anywhere and anytime they need us. Specific Practice & Industry Groups Details: Statement of Practice Summary: Civil Litigation and General Business Practice. Civil Litigation Practice includes Railroad Defense, Personal Injury Defense, Product Liability, Toxic Tort, Insurance Defense and Insurance Coverage, Medical and Professional Malpractice, General Commercial Litigation, and Employment related Litigation. Business Practice includes Banking, Bankruptcy, Mergers and Acquisitions, Purchase and Sale of Businesses, Formation of Businesses, Condemnation, Real Estate, Mineral Law, Estate Planning and Probate, Tax, Labor Negotiations and Arbitrations, Workers' Compensation, Employment Law, Employee Benefits, Patent and Trademark, Admiralty Law, and Environmental Law. Documents by Lawyers at this office Strategy For A Daubert Victory: Take On the "Junk Science"
James Wade Turner, November 12, 2009, previously published by LexisNexis® Martindale-Hubbell® Counsel to Counsel Magazine
on September/October 2009 In May 2009, a West Virginia circuit court judge invalidated the causation hypothesis used by hundreds of plaintiffs in personal injury cases against a Class I railroad. The ruling is significant
for negligence defense strategies because it uses the U.S. Supreme Court's Daubert criteria -- which... Year Established: 1871 Representative Clients: General Corporate and Labor Litigation: CSX Transportation, Inc.; Norfolk Southern Corp.; Ashland Inc.; Appalachian Power Co.; Western Pocahontas Properties, LP; Greenbrier Hotel; The Ohio River Co.; BASF Corp.; KI(USA) Corp.; Champion Industries, Inc.; Corbin, Ltd.; Applied Card Systems, Inc.; Rubberlite, Inc.; Speedway SuperAmerica LLC. Banking and Finance: Bank One, WV, NA; Community Trust Bank; Kentucky Bank and Trust; National City Bank; Merrill Lynch Credit Corp. Railroad and Transportation Companies: CSX Transportation, Inc.; Norfolk Southern Railway Company; Norfolk and Western Railway Company; Amtrak; Carolina Freight Carriers; Tri-State Transit Authority; North American Van Lines, Inc.; Conrail; Illinois Central Railroad Company; American Commercial Barge Line. LLC; International Truck and Engine Corporatin; American Transportation Corp.; ACE/USA. Insurance: United Services Automobile Assn.; Transamerica Insurance Group; Nationwide Insurance Co.; State Automobile Mutual Insurance Co.; Electric Mutual Insurance Co.; Insurance Company of North America; Podiatry Insurance Company of America; Insurance Company of Decatur; Shelby Ins. Group; National Chiropractic Mutual Insurance Co.; First Financial Insurance Co.; St. Paul Insurance Companies; Travelers Insurance Co.; American Family Insurance Co.; National Transportation Adjusters, Inc.; American Medical Security. Products Defense: Case Corporation; Compaction America, Inc.; General Electric Company; Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Inc.; U-Haul International; Interneuron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Communications: The Herald-Dispatch; AEI, Inc. Coal, Oil, Gas and Environmental: Vandalia Resources, Inc.; Pittston Coal Management Company; Appalachian Mining, Inc.; Marrowbone Development Co.; Guyan Eagle Investment Co.; Eagle Coal Corp.; C.L. Ritter Lumber Co., Inc.; Wayne County Land and Mineral Co.; Big Sandy Coal Corp.; Waste Management of North America, Inc.; Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC; Dow Agro Sciences LLC; Exxon Mobil Corp.; Pocohontas Land Corporation. Healthcare: Genesis Affiliated Health Services, Inc.; Ultimate Health Services.
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