A Delaware judge’s ruling that plaintiff attorneys in a case against Elon Musk were entitled to hundreds of millions of dollars in legal fees has prompted renewed calls for tort reform on social media and from a legal expert who spoke to Fox News Digital.  Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick ruled earlier this month that Musk is not…

Three women are facing charges after an investigation uncovered a scheme involving staged car accidents and fraudulent medical claims, according to Miami-Dade police. On Monday, detectives executed a search warrant at Wise Care Corp., a clinic in Hialeah, following months of surveillance taking the clinic’s owner, a therapist and a receptionist into custody.   Those women were…

Six years ago, a single Tesla shareholder—with just nine shares to his name—sued the electric vehicle company, arguing that CEO Elon Musk’s $56 billion compensation package was unfair. The shareholder’s lawyers, in turn, saw a jackpot for themselves in the making. Last week, a Delaware judge sided with this lone shareholder, despite 72 percent of Tesla shareholders’ previously voting…

Eight people and two law firms have been charged in what authorities say was more than a decade-long scheme of staging vehicle crashes in the New Orleans area and then submitting fraudulent insurance claims, leading to what prosecutors allege was the murder of one person to cover it up.

Despite the images on his over-the-top and omnipresent billboards, John Morgan isn’t an astronaut, swimsuit model, leather clad biker or Santa Claus. He’s a lawyer, a self-made billionaire and the founder of Orlando, Fla.-based Morgan & Morgan, the largest personal injury law firm in the U.S., with more than 1,000 lawyers (and 6,000 employees total)…

CEO Elon Musk won’t be a pauper because a Delaware chancery court on Monday overturned his Tesla pay package—worth some $100 billion at the company’s current stock price. But the decision still sets a bad legal precedent that will damage American corporate law. Delaware Court of Chancery Judge Kathaleen McCormick in January blocked Mr. Musk’s 2018 compensation plan on grounds that…

The NYPD is investigating the disturbing staged accident on the Belt Parkway that went viral on TikTok — as experts said such insurance scams are on the rise in New York because fraudsters are “getting away with it.” A police spokesperson said Tuesday that detectives have interviewed victim Ashpia Natasha about the Oct. 16 caught-on-dashcam crash, in…

Mike Papantonio is an evangelist for the gospel of mass torts. The 70-year-old shares the good news with his flock twice a year at the Wynn Las Vegas during the raucous Mass Torts Made Perfect conference. “You’re going to do well financially doing it,” he tells his lawyers, “but you’re also going to do something…

It’s the melting pot of all scams. Russian gangsters, MS-13 members, and a cadre of corrupt surgeons, lawyers and lenders are pulling off the latest big con in the city: bogus personal-injury lawsuits where immigrants go under the knife to help their twisted ruse. Migrants and other desperate New Yorkers are pressured into getting unneeded spinal fusion surgery…