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Alabama Riverboat Owners, Sorority Sued Over Student Drowning
Apr 10 2014 // Relatives of a University of Alabama student who drowned after falling from the Bama Belle riverboat during a 2012 sorority party have filed a wrongful death lawsuit. The Tuscaloosa News reported that Tre’ Jones...
Allstate, Merrill Lynch End $167 Million Mortgage Suit
Apr 9 2014 // Allstate Corp. and Bank of America Corp.’s Merrill Lynch unit agreed to end a lawsuit by the insurer over $167 million in mortgage-backed securities as the second-largest U.S. lender continues to resolve litigation...
Tesla Sued by Wisconsin ‘Lemon Law King’
Apr 9 2014 // Wisconsin’s self-proclaimed lemon law king filed a lawsuit against direct-order car maker Tesla Motors, accusing the company of selling a defective electric sedan to a Franklin doctor. Tesla is currently fighting new...
Priest Sex Abuse Alleged in Another Hawaii Suit
Apr 9 2014 // Another lawsuit against the Catholic Church in Hawaii claims that a former Bishop sexually abused a boy who went to him to report he had been abused by another priest. Attorneys for the 59-year-old Honolulu man filed the...
Allstate, Bank of America Agree to End Lawsuit Over Mortgages
Apr 8 2014 // Allstate Corp. and Bank of America Corp.’s Countrywide unit have agreed to dismiss a lawsuit stemming from $700 million of toxic mortgage debt, according to a court filing on Tuesday. The parties “have agreed...
Judge Awards Utah Woman $250K In Dog Bite Suit
Apr 8 2014 // A judge has ruled in favor of an Ogden, Utah woman in a lawsuit over a severe dog bite. Second District Judge Mike DiReda found that Sara Loving was owed $250,000 in damages from defendants James and Cindy Davis for...
Court Says FTC Can Sue Hotel Chain Over Data Breaches
Apr 8 2014 // A U.S. court ruled on Monday that the Federal Trade Commission can proceed with a lawsuit against hotel group Wyndham Worldwide Corp. for allegedly failing to safeguard consumers’ personal information. Wyndham had...
Injured Skier Sues Oregon Resort Over ‘Drunken’ Snowboarder
Apr 7 2014 // A skier injured when an allegedly drunken snowboarder collided with her has filed a $900,000 lawsuit against the snowboarder and Skibowl in Oregon. The suit from Maria Magdalena Stanila alleges the Mount Hood ski resort...
Could Washington Landslide Lawsuits Win?
Apr 7 2014 // The warnings could hardly have been clearer. One technical report told of the “potential for a large catastrophic failure” of the 600-foot hillside above a rural neighborhood near Oso, on the Stillaguamish...
Credit Bureau Experian Facing Litigation, State Probes Over Data Breach
Apr 7 2014 // Experian Plc is enmeshed in litigation over its 2012 purchase of the assets of data firm Court Ventures, which is at the center of a breach that exposed some 200 million American Social Security numbers to...
Owners of Leaky Iowa Apartments Win Suit Against Insurer
Apr 7 2014 // An insurance company has been told to pay $12.4 million to the owners of a West Des Moines, Iowa, apartment complex that was plagued with water leaks and mold. Construction of the Westlake apartments began in 2002....
California Toy Company Settles Beastie Boys Suit
Apr 7 2014 // A California toy company has settled its lawsuit against the Beastie Boys over its parody of their song “Girls” in a promotional video that went viral. An agreement to dismiss the claim was filed in late March...
Top 5 Riskiest States for Employee Lawsuits: Hiscox
Apr 7 2014 // Four states – California, Illinois, Alabama and Mississippi – along with the District of Columbia, are the top five riskiest places in the country for employee lawsuits. Businesses in these states and jurisdictions...
Shareholders Sue in 94 Percent of M&As; 75 Percent Settle Before Closing: Cornerstone Research
Apr 7 2014 // Shareholders challenged more than 94 percent of U.S. merger and acquisition deals valued over $100 million in 2013, according to a new M&A report by Cornerstone Research. Deals worth $100 million or more attracted an...
Insurance Can’t Protect Libertarian’s Dream of Unlimited Liability: McArdle
Apr 6 2014 // If you run in libertarian circles, you hear a lot about lawsuits. It’s the obvious recourse for anyone who wants less regulation but can’t bring themselves to insist that, say, chemical companies should be...
Oregon State University Pays $101K Settle Campus Paper Suit
Apr 4 2014 // Oregon State University has paid $1,000 plus $100,000 in legal fees to a former student to settle a lawsuit over the confiscation of distribution boxes for a conservative-leaning student newspaper. The Oregonian reported...
Malpractice Suit Over Frozen California Woman to Proceed
Apr 4 2014 // A family that claims a woman was frozen to death in a hospital morgue after she was prematurely declared dead can proceed with a medical malpractice lawsuit, an appeals court ruled. The California 2nd District Court of...
N.Y. Regulator Lawsky Sued by AIG Over Probe Into Unlicensed Insurance
Apr 3 2014 // American International Group Inc. sued to block New York’s top financial regulator, Benjamin Lawsky, from fining it over marketing insurance overseas without a state license, claiming it would be...
Church Investor Sues Wal-Mart Over Sale of Guns, ‘Offensive’ Music
Apr 3 2014 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s sale of sexually charged music and high-capacity weapons hurts the company’s image, an historic Wall Street church said in a lawsuit seeking to force a shareholder vote on tightening...
Texas Windstorm Insurer Sued for Passing on Ike Costs to Policyholders
Apr 2 2014 // A Corpus Christi man is suing the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association for hundreds of millions of dollars because he says it improperly passed on costs to policyholders like him after Hurricane Ike in 2008. Ramiro Gamboa...
