Gordon Rhea was honored with the highest award during the Virgin Islands Bar Association’s annual meeting on December 8, 2023. The award ceremony highlighted Rhea’s dedication to the legal profession and his commitment, dedication and valuable contributions to the people of the Virgin Islands. The Winston A. Hodge Award for Public Service was established by […]
Read the original Article on The St. Croix Source More than a decade after he was charged with racketeering, fraud and embezzlement, St. Thomas attorney Amos Carty Jr. has been cleared of wrongdoing at the Schneider Regional Medical Center. A three-judge panel at the Virgin Islands Supreme Court reversed Carty’s 2019 conviction in an appellate […]
Justice has finally come for Dr. Albert Titus, the St. Croix surgeon who fought for six years to prove he was wrongfully terminated and publicly slandered by jealous colleagues at Luis Hospital. V.I. Superior Court Judge Michael Dunston wrote in a scathing 24-page opinion that hospital officials’ actions were so egregious, Titus is entitled to […]
ST. THOMAS — A first-of-its-kind consolidated trial in a lawsuit over the deaths of two territorial residents from cigarette smoke awarded $113 million in damages, lawyers in the case say. The civil trial involved two separate six-person juries hearing arguments in the case, said Gordon Rhea, who tried the case along with Michael Weisman and […]
The Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) announced on Sunday that two tobacco lawsuits tried this month in St. Thomas have concluded with verdicts totaling $113.3 million. The cases, Gerald v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and Brown v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., were brought by the children of two deceased smokers who had been hooked on […]