Hurricane Katrina Insurance Claims
Michael Caddell and John Scofield were retained to evaluate over 400 business and personal insurance claims arising from wind damage caused by Hurricane Katrina along the Mississippi coast. Within months of retention, the firm successfully resolved approximately 40 of the disputes, and they initiated lawsuits for almost 100 pending claims. Since its initiation of litigation, […]
Victory for Quapaw Tribe in Environmental Litigation
As lead counsel, Caddell & Chapman secured an $11.5 million settlement on behalf of its client, the sovereign Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma against ASARCO LLC, a mining company and recovered an additional $8.856 million for the Quapaw Tribe against various other mining defendants and the BNSF railroad. The Quapaw claimed that ASARCO’s mining activities caused natural resource […]
Data Security Breach Class Action
On August 24, 2009, Judge Lee Rosenthal in the Southern District of Texas appointed Michael Caddell as Co‑Lead Counsel for a class of banks, credit unions and other financial institutions in a multi-district litigation case against Heartland Payment Systems. Heartland processes payment card transactions for about 250,000 merchants and handles an average of more than […]
Trans Union – Privacy Class Action
Caddell & Chapman served as Co‑Settlement Class Counsel in multi-district litigation against Trans Union in the Northern District of Illinois. The privacy class action litigation focused on Trans Union’s use of its vast database of financial information, which includes the confidential financial information of most adults in the United States, to create and sell “target […]
Construction Defect Litigation
Caddell & Chapman resolved part of a major construction defect case involving an $85 million, 30‑story condominium tower on South Padre Island in Texas. The tower, having suffered extreme differential settlement during its construction, will be imploded in December 2009. Representing the owner, Caddell & Chapman successfully addressed multi‑party claims and obtained a confidential settlement […]
Multi-Million Dollar Insurance Litigation
Caddell & Chapman represented Park Memorial Condominium Association in litigation against Lexington Insurance company for breach of contract in denying Park Memorial’s insurance claim and failing to indemnify Park Memorial for covered damages at the condominiums in accordance with the conditions of the policy. Park Memorial submitted an insurance claim to Lexington related to partial […]
Ford Ambulance Diesel Engine Class Action
Caddell and Chapman served as co‑lead counsel in litigation pending against Ford in the Eastern District of Texas federal court involving defective diesel engines used by Ford in ambulances. On February 20, 2009, the Federal Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Beaumont Division, preliminarily approved the settlement of a class action that Caddell & […]