Pittsburgh Business Showcase airs on KDKA, Channel 2, and profiles businesses important to Pittsburgh

Melissa Hutts

PITTSBURGH, Penn. (July 31, 2009) Melissa Hutts, shareholder at Baron & Budd, P.C., was featured on a local television station in Pittsburgh as part of a Pittsburgh Business Showcase segment on the Dallas-based law firm Baron & Budd. Hutts is an accomplished trial attorney and has a strong background in mesothelioma and other asbestos-related diseases as well as product liability and consumer fraud. The segment ran as part of the Pittsburgh Today Live morning newscast on July 31 on KDKA, Channel 2.

Hutts’s interview focused on Baron & Budd’s areas of practice, specifically the firm’s mission to help those with mesothelioma and asbestos-related diseases receive fair compensation from the companies that exposed them to asbestos and caused their diseases. Hutts also discussed Baron & Budd’s response to current issues involving healthcare, the environment, the financial industry and the recent outcry over unreasonable banking fees.

Founded more than 30 years ago to provide legal help to victims of mesothelioma and asbestos-related diseases, Baron & Budd has expanded its services to other areas consistent with the firm’s mission, like representing individuals struggling with the damages caused by defective Chinese drywall or the costs of unreasonable bank overdraft fees. The law firm also represents cities and public water provides recover cleanup costs from polluters. And Baron & Budd attorneys work with states to recover losses from Medicare and other fraud and help whistleblowers the compensation they deserve for bring fraud to light.

Baron & Budd has always worked to protect American families and communities from harm caused by corporate misconduct. Today, the firm continues to keep a close watch on legal issues that are important to all of us—issues like healthcare, water quality and the safety of our homes, workplaces and communities.

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About Baron & Budd

Dallas-based Baron & Budd, P.C., with offices in Baton Rouge, Austin and Beverly Hills, is a nationally recognized firm with more than three decades of experience representing people and communities harmed by corporate negligence. It has been recognized by the National Law Journal’s “Plaintiffs’ Hot List” six out of the seven years the list has been published (2002-2006, 2008, by Incisive Media). The firm resolved one of the first asbestos exposure cases in the United States in the 1970s and has continued to help people affected by asbestos exposure, as well as communities and consumers dealing with the costs of fraud and corporate misconduct.