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Delaware Court Backs Fee-Shifting in Shareholder Class Actions
May 12 2014 // Delaware’s Supreme Court has ruled that corporations can adopt bylaws requiring an investor who sues and loses to pay the company’s legal costs, potentially upending the economics of a booming type of...
Lawsuit Filed by Mother of ASU Frat Pledge Who Drowned
May 8 2014 // The mother of an Arizona State University fraternity pledge who drowned after a night of drinking has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the chapter. Grace Culolias wants a jury trial to decide punitive and...
Mother Files Wrongful Death Suit Against West Virginia ‘Tough Mudder’
May 7 2014 // A Maryland woman whose son drowned last year along an obstacle course in West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the organizers of Tough Mudder’s Mid-Atlantic event. The...
Allied World Bermuda Launches the Thirty2°/Sixty4 Suite
May 6 2014 // Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, AG announced the launch of a Bermuda’s “Thirty2°/Sixty4°” suite that addresses a wide range of liability exposures currently facing corporations and their...
Louisiana Senate Panel OKs Bill to Derail Oil & Gas Lawsuit
May 5 2014 // Another bill pushed by Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration to undermine a lawsuit filed by a south Louisiana flood protection board against oil and gas companies is advancing in the state Senate. Senate Bill 469 by...
Armstrong Appeals to Texas Supreme Court to Halt Insurer Lawsuit
May 5 2014 // Lance Armstrong has asked the Texas Supreme Court to stop a Dallas company from trying to force him to pay back about $12 million in bonuses it paid him for winning the Tour de France. SCA Promotions sued Armstrong last...
BNSF Settles Lawsuit with Montana City Over Contamination
May 5 2014 // BNSF Railway has settled a lawsuit filed by landowners living near a former railroad tie treatment plant near Somers, Mont. BNSF spokesman Matt Jones told the Flathead Beacon the settlement reached last month calls for the...
GM Negotiating with Claimants in Ignition Switch Lawsuits
May 5 2014 // A mediator for General Motors has begun negotiations about settling more than 300 claims related to a deadly ignition switch problem in some older model small cars. Kenneth Feinberg confirmed in an interview with The...
Archdiocese in Oregon Faces New Sex Abuse Lawsuit
May 5 2014 // Another lawsuit has been filed against the Catholic Archdiocese of Portland by a man who says he was one of dozens of boys sexually abused by a priest in the 1960s and 1970s. In the lawsuit filed last month in federal...
Monster Involved in Insurer-Funded Settlement in California
May 5 2014 // Corona, Calif.-based Monster Beverage Corp. has agreed to settle an ongoing securities class action lawsuit against the company and two of its officers in federal district court in Los Angeles. The settlement, reportedly...
North Dakota Workers’ Comp Agency Sues Aon eSolutions
May 5 2014 // North Dakota’s workers’ compensation agency has sued a Chicago company over a failed $17 million computer system overhaul. The Workforce Safety and Insurance agency filed its lawsuit in state court against Aon...
Accounting Class Action Settlements Stable But Associated Market Losses Double
May 2 2014 // The number of accounting case settlements in 2013 increased for the second year in a row, but remained low compared with the previous ten years, according to Cornerstone Research’s latest report According to the...
Supreme Court Rules Patent Suit Winners Can Get Legal Fees
Apr 30 2014 // Companies that successfully fight off “unreasonable” patent lawsuits can get their legal fees paid, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a decision that may benefit Google Inc., Apple Inc. and other technology...
Allied World No. Am. Launches ‘ForceField’ Product Suite in Canada
Apr 30 2014 // Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, AG announced today the launch of its ForceField management liability product suite in the Canadian market. ForceField offers five coverage components including: Directors &...
Court Revives Suit Over WWII Site Cleanup in California
Apr 29 2014 // A divided U.S. appeals court revived efforts by oil companies to force the federal government to reimburse them for the cost to clean up a Southern California site where they had dumped toxic sludge during World War II. By...
N.Y.’s Four Seasons Restaurant Sued Over Plan to Move Picasso Painting
Apr 28 2014 // New York’s storied Four Seasons restaurant has for decades harbored one of the city’s more unusual artworks: the largest Pablo Picasso painting in the United States. But a plan to move it has touched off a spat...
Student’s Suit Alleges Columbia University Mishandled Sexual Misconduct
Apr 28 2014 // Columbia University and Barnard College mishandled incidents of sexual assault and misconduct on campus, according to a complaint filed yesterday with the U.S. Education Department by 23 students. The complaint alleges...
Tennessee Supreme Court Reinstates Malpractice Suit
Apr 28 2014 // The Tennessee Supreme Court has reinstated a medical malpractice lawsuit that had been thrown out by lower courts because the plaintiff failed to file paperwork to confirm it had met notice requirements. Richard Thurmond,...
Supreme Court Facing Additional Patent Issues This Week
Apr 27 2014 // Even as it deals with hot-button issues like campaign financing and affirmative action, the U.S. Supreme Court has patents on its mind these days. The court, which has already heard four patent-related cases this term,...
Landlords Who Evicted Tenants For Airbnb Sued by San Francisco
Apr 25 2014 // The city of San Francisco has sued two landlords for allegedly evicting tenants to rent out rooms on such websites as Airbnb, opening a new front in a controversy over increasingly popular home-rental services. In separate...
