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$11M judgment for hearse chasing

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — A lawyer and his firm was ordered to pay an Arkansas attorney over $11.4 million in damages after the latter prevailed in a civil racketeering suit. A jury concluded the Arkansas lawyer was representing a grieving family that was wrongly induced by nonlawyer “case runners” to switch law firms. The jury awarded the prevailing lawyer $6.6 million in damages, but a federal judge nearly doubled that amount by considering statutory damages and other factors.

/ August 29, 2025

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