Newspaper Focuses On Legislator’s Role While Parties Battle Over Possible Dismissal of Settlement Factoring Lawsuit
As the parties to a putative class-action battle over whether a case involving structured settlement factoring should be dismissed, the dispute has drawn additional attention from a news publication that has underscored the fact that one of the defendants is a Virginia legislator. In this action, Plaintiffs allege that a Virginia lawmaker, Stephen Heretick, and several Virginia state court judges were complicit in a scheme to defraud personal injury victims. As reported today by the Virginia Pilot, this scheme involved…