Twenty years ago, lawyers with Wilkes & McHugh, P.A. started out with one small office in Tampa. Since those early days in Tampa, Wilkes & McHugh, P.A. has grown to ten offices across the country -- from Tampa Bay all the way to California.
Below you will find the various news stories that have been written about Wilkes & McHugh, P.A., cases.
D'Army Bailey will serve as speaker during the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. chapel assembly at 11 a.m. Wednesday, in the J. F. Lane Health and Physical Education Building on the campus of Lane College. Bailey, a graduate of Yale Law School, founded the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel, the site of King's assassination. He is the author of two books, including "Mine Eyes Have Seen: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Journey."
Read MoreIMG Academies, the Bradenton training facility that draws students from all over the world who aspire to be pro athletes, on Thursday was found to be negligent along with two medical professionals in the death of a 16-year-old student.
Read MoreGREENVILLE, Miss. - Henry Gibson died as a result of abuse and neglect at Arnold Avenue Nursing Home in Greenville. On Sept. 10, 2009, a Washington County jury awarded the family $1.5 million.
Read MoreDEQUEEN, Ark. - A Court in Sevier County decided today (April 17, 2009) that a family deserved $7 million for the neglect and wrongful death of its patriarch. John W. Minor, an 87-year-old DeQueen man, died after officials at a local nursing home neglected him to the point where his body was covered with 35 bedsores. The sores, many in advanced stages and infected, made it impossible to embalm his body when Minor passed away on May 2, 2004.
Read MoreA jury awarded a 21-year-old Wauchula woman $65 million Wednesday for her injuries in a 2007 crash. Lymon had been driving her Dodge Neon on Aug. 21, 2007, when a tractor-trailer owned by an Auburndale-based company, Bynum Transport, struck her car at State Road 35 and State Road 64, according to the lawsuit naming Bynum and the driver.
Read MoreA Polk County jury awarded a 21-year-old woman $65 million in damages Wednesday in a personal injury lawsuit against a trucking company. On Aug. 21, 2007, Kendra Lymon was a normal 19-year-old woman whose life was shattered when an 18-wheeler, owned by Bynum Transport Inc., T-boned her little Dodge Neon at the intersection of State Road 17 and State Road 64
Read MoreOn Monday, March 9, in Clark County Circuit Court, Vernon Johnson filed suit on behalf of his 95-year old motheragainst the home's administrator, Robert Hollins, as well as its parent and partner companies. Vernon alleges that his mother, Lucy Hale, suffered "accelerated deterioration of her health beyond the normal aging process," as well as poor hygiene, bedsores with maggot infestation, malnutrition, weight loss and dehydration.
Read MoreThe surviving family of Cheathum Myers could end up getting nearly $30 million in punitive damages which were stripped away by the trial judge after jurors found NHC partially liable for the death of an 88-year old man.
Read MoreA civil trial for a wrongful death lawsuit involving the death of 90-year-old Olive Shaffer of Acme brought against a Mt. Pleasant nursing home ended with a negotiated settlement after just two witnesses testified.
Read MoreA Westmoreland County jury started hearing arguments Tuesday in a wrongful death lawsuit in which the family of a 90-year-old Acme woman claims the nursing home where she lived was negligent in her care and caused her death.
Read MoreA Tennessee court has granted a retrial for punitive damage and upheld most of a separate $4.1 million compensatory damage award in a negligence lawsuit against National Healthcare Corp., a Murfreesboro-based nursing home operator.
Read MoreThe Tennessee Court of Appeals has sustained most of a $4.1 million damage award against Murfreesboro-based nursing home operator National Healthcare Corp., while denying the company's bid to relieve it of any punitive damages.
Read MoreThe father of a Fort Smith man killed when he jumped over the railing of an interstate bridge filed suit Wednesday against the driver of a tractor-trailer he claims is responsible for his son’s death.
Read MoreThe father of an Interstate 540 crash victim filed a lawsuit Wednesday in Crawford County Circuit Court, siting an Arkansas trucking company for his death.
Read MoreNearly one year after a fire at Seven Springs Resort in Somerset County, Pennsylvania killed a Belle Vernon couple, the parents of one of the victims have filed a lawsuit in Pittsburgh regarding their son's death.
Read MoreThe parents of a Fayette County man who died while trying to save his girlfriend from a condominium fire a year ago have filed a lawsuit alleging negligence.
Read MoreThe family of a Belle Vernon man who died last year in a fire at a Seven Springs Mountain Resort condominium filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the condo association, chimney cleaning company, chimney manufacturer
Read MoreThe parents of a Rostraver man who died in a 2008 fire in a Seven Springs Mountain Resort condominium have filed suit alleging negligence.
Read MoreThe parents of a 22-year old who died in a condo fire near Seven Springs Mountain have filed a lawsuit against several different parties.
Read MoreThe parents of a Rostraver man who died in a 2008 fire in a Seven Springs Mountain Resort condominium have filed suit alleging negligence.
Read MoreThe parents of a young man killed in a condo fire at Seven Springs file a lawsuit.
Read MoreA woman who says her 86-year-old husband died after receiving the wrong medication issuing Oak Hill Hospital in Spring Hill.
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