An editorial from the Charleston Daily Mail
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — In December, ABC News shone the national spotlight on state’s highest court detailing financial ties between Justice Robin Davis and plaintiffs’ attorney Michael Fuller.
Fuller, who hails from Mississippi, lined up $35,000 in contributions for Davis’ 2012 re-election campaign. He also paid $1 million to purchase a Lear Jet from Davis’ husband, attorney Scott Segal.
This all came as Fuller had a multi-million dollar case heading to Davis’ desk.
In 2011, a Kanawha County jury awarded $91.5 million to the family of Dorothy Douglas, who had filed a negligence lawsuit against nursing home Heartland of Charleston, which is owned by Manor Care Inc. A Kanawha County judge reduced the award by $1 million
The case ended up before the state Supreme Court last year and Davis wrote the majority opinion that preserved $40 million of the jury award. Fuller’s firm got a $17 million payout from the case — one of the largest lawsuit cuts the firm had ever received.
The matter is coming up again because Fuller is once again representing a family suing Heartland of Charleston in another case making its way to the Supreme Court…
