Monthly Archives: <span>April 2023</span>

Massachusetts High Court Opens 27,000 Drunk Driving Cases to Reconsideration

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that 27,000 people who pled guilty or were convicted of drunk driving from June 1, 2011 to April 18, 2019, are entitled to have their cases reconsidered due to the state police lab’s …

Uber Drivers Are Not Interstate Workers Exempt From Arbitration, Court Rules

Uber Technologies Inc drivers are not exempt from a U.S. law requiring them to bring work-related legal disputes in private arbitration rather than joining class action lawsuits in court, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Wednesday. A panel of the …

Louisiana Man Latest to be Sentenced for Staged Automobile Collision Scheme

United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that Lois Russell, age 63 of Gibson, Louisiana, was sentenced on April 20, 2023 after previously pleading guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section …

Massive Fire at Louisiana Sawmill Put Out

BOGALUSA, La. (AP) – Firefighters from departments across southeast Louisiana and nearby areas of Mississippi worked for hours before extinguishing the flames from a massive fire at a sawmill on Lake Pontchartrain’s north shore early Monday. The fire at the …

Ohio Families Living in Limbo Months After Fire

AST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) – Jeff Drummond spends days and nights alone in a tiny room with fake wood paneling, two small beds and a microwave atop a mini refrigerator that serves as a nightstand – his pickup truck parked …

Risk Strategies Enters Wisconsin With Acquisition of Johnson Insurance Services

Risk Strategies announced it is finalizing terms of a purchase agreement under which it will purchase the assets of Johnson Insurance Services, a subsidiary of Johnson Financial Group. Following the completion of due diligence, the transaction is expected to close …

World Acquires Kansas’ Iron Gates

World Insurance Associates LLC announced that it acquired the business of Iron Gates Insurance Group LLC (“Iron Gates”) of Haven, Kansas and Anthony, Kansas on March 1, 2023. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Iron Gates has been serving …

Jury Finds Deutsche Bank Liable for $95 Million in International Ponzi Scheme Suit

A south Florida jury has found Deutsche Bank liable for failing to flag a Ponzi scheme that allegedly forced several Cayman Island companies into bankruptcy and liquidation. The Germany-based global banking firm, which faces another lawsuit over the scheme and …

Driver Charged in Fatal Apple Store Crash Pleads Not Guilty

The driver of an SUV that crashed into a Massachusetts Apple store, killing one man and injuring nearly two dozen other people, was traveling as fast as 60 miles per hour (96 kilometers per hour) in the seconds before the …

How Former Columnist’s Civil Lawsuit Alleging Sex Assault by Trump Reached Court

As Donald Trump ran for and served as president, over a dozen women publicly accused him of sexual assault and harassment. Most of those claims – all denied by Trump – were never taken to court. None has gone to …