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About Alva Caine
Growing up on a cattle farm in Safford, Alabama, Alva Caine appreciated the value of hard work from a young age. When his father died while his siblings were away at college, Alva learned firsthand how a sudden loss could change a family forever. He was commissioned a Lieutenant, serving as an aviator and Army helicopter instructor pilot, and was later promoted to Captain while stationed at Camp Casey, Korea with the 7th Aviation Battalion of the 7th Infantry Division. Upon returning to civilian life, he graduated cum laude from Cumberland School of Law and obtained his LL.M. from Harvard University Law School in 1971.
Alva has been with Hare Wynn in some capacity ever since and serves as Of Counsel for the firm. Over a decades-long career, he has represented hundreds of clients across a wide range of areas, from product liability to catastrophic injury. He served as secretary and then president of the Alabama Trial Lawyers Board of Governors and as president of the Alabama State Bar Association from 1989 to 1990.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Hare Wynn Newell & Newton
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Scott Powell of Hare Wynn Newell and Newton served as one of four co-lead class counsel in the $1.51 billion nationwide settlement against Syngenta, recovering losses for hundreds of thousands of U.S. corn growers, grain handlers, and ethanol producers whose market access to China was cut off after the company prematurely commercialized an unapproved GMO corn trait.
A class action filed in 2002 on behalf of roughly 400,000 residents across six north Alabama counties ended in a court-approved $300 million cleanup settlement requiring 3M and co-defendants to remediate PFAS contamination throughout the Tennessee River watershed.
Scott Powell of Hare Wynn Newell and Newton served as co-lead class counsel when a Kansas federal jury returned a $217.7 million compensatory verdict against Syngenta, finding the seed company negligent for commercializing its MIR162 GMO corn trait in the United States before China approved it for import, triggering a market collapse that cut off American farmers from one of their largest export buyers.
The widow of Derric Rush, a church music minister killed in a 2009 Birmingham crash by an off-duty police officer, won a default judgment against Club Volcano for serving the officer while intoxicated, after a trial on damages in 2013. The same judgment included $3.25 million against the officer, James Kendrick. The Alabama Supreme Court voided the club's judgment in 2014 because service by publication had not been shown to be justified.
A Bessemer jury returned a $15 million verdict against the owners of a BP convenience store that sold beer to an underage driver whose vehicle struck a tree, killing a 13-year-old passenger and injuring three others in May 2007.
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