Court Upholds Distribution of Attorney Fees in Civil Suit Over Worker's Fatal Accident

A Louisiana appellate court upheld the distribution of contingency fees between two law firms that represented the family of a worker who was killed while inflating a defective tire. Case: Kaster, Lynch, Farrar & Ball LLP v. Meeks & Associates LLC, No. 2025-CA-0087, 08/08/2025, published. Facts and procedural history: Elwood Breaux Jr. worked for the Plaquemines Parish Government. He suffered fatal injuries in February 2014 at work while inflating a Goodyear G182 RSD tire, when a zipper rupture caused the tire to explode. His widow filed a wrongful death/survival action ag...