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Supreme Court Rejects Pfizer Bid for Shield From Asbestos Suits
Jun 24 2013 // The U.S. Supreme Court refused to shield Pfizer Inc. from some asbestos lawsuits connected to its Quigley Co. subsidiary, a bankrupt unit that stopped most operations in 1992. The justices today rejected Pfizer’s...
Florida Court Allows Californian’s Suit Against Miami Firms Tied to Mexican Resorts
Jun 24 2013 // A divided Florida Supreme Court is letting a lawsuit go ahead against a company that runs a resort in Mexico. The court ruled last Thursday that Shahla Cortez can proceed with her lawsuit against three Miami companies...
Lawsuit Filed Against Charter Bus Company Over Kentucky Crash
Jun 24 2013 // The parents of two students who were among those injured when a bus crashed on a Kentucky interstate as the group returned from a college campus visit have sued the charter bus operator, claiming the vehicle was not...
S.C. Sheriff’s Office Settles Lawsuit; Insurance Reserve Fund to Cover Costs
Jun 21 2013 // The York County sheriff’s office in South Carolina has reached a settlement with the family of a pedestrian struck and killed by a deputy’s patrol car. The Herald of Rock Hill reported the sheriff’s...
Ex-workers Sue Over Pay on Oregon Public Projects
Jun 21 2013 // Former workers on public projects say in a federal court suit in Eugene, Ore. they were underpaid and have asked for more than $3.5 million. The Eugene Register-Guard reported the suit names four former workers as...
Southern California Man Sues Costco Over Hepatitis A Outbreak
Jun 21 2013 // A Burbank man has sued Costco, claiming he got hepatitis A from frozen berries that have been linked to illnesses in eight states. City News Service reported Greg Patterson’s lawsuit is at least the fifth filed in...
Big Business the Winner in U.S. Supreme Court Class Actions
Jun 21 2013 // In a series of rulings this year, the U.S. Supreme Court has steered a consistent course against consumers or small businesses that want to bring class action lawsuits against corporate defendants. Comcast Corp, Whirlpool...
Liberty Law School in Virginia Demands Lawsuit Coverage From Hanover
Jun 20 2013 // Liberty University’s law school wants a judge to force its insurance company to pay for its defense in a lawsuit stemming from a same-sex-marriage custody battle. Virginia Lawyer’s Weekly reports that the...
Ebix, Goldman Sachs Terminate Merger Agreement Amid Probe
Jun 20 2013 // Ebix Inc., a supplier of software and E-commerce services to the insurance industry, announced that it and an affiliate of Goldman, Sachs & Co. have agreed to terminate their previously announced merger agreement. The...
High Court Rules for American Express in Class Action Case
Jun 20 2013 // The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that an arbitration agreement prevents merchants from bringing class action claims against American Express Co . The nine-member court ruled on a 5-3 vote, with liberal Justice...
Suit Filed Over Southern California Border Patrol Chase Death
Jun 19 2013 // The parents of a man who died when his car burst into flames during a Border Patrol chase in San Diego County is suing the government for wrongful death. Twenty-five-year-old Alex Martin of Texas died in March of 2012....
Family Sues Over Colorado Woman’s Death In Reality TV Project
Jun 19 2013 // The survivors of a woman killed during the production of a reality TV show pilot have filed a wrongful death and negligence lawsuit against Discovery Communications Inc. and Anthropic Productions Corp. Terry...
Carnival Files Suit Against Alabama Ship Repair Firm
Jun 19 2013 // The Carnival Corp. filed a lawsuit last week seeking more than $12 million in damage that its cruise ship, Triumph, sustained in an early April windstorm.A file photo of the cruise ship Carnival Triumph being towed into...
IPO-Seeking China Companies Pay More to Avoid Boards Going Naked
Jun 18 2013 // Stephen Markscheid holds one of the riskiest jobs in the world — or so say directors and officers liability insurers. The 59-year-old former banker, a Mandarin-speaking American, sits on the boards of five...
Drug Makers Can Be Sued for ‘Pay for Delay’: Supreme Court
Jun 18 2013 // Drugmakers can be sued for paying rivals to delay low-cost versions of popular medicines, the U.S. Supreme Court said in a decision that rewrites the rules governing the release of generic drugs. The 5-3 ruling is largely...
Judge Grants Toyota More Time to Win OK of $1.1 Billion Settlement
Jun 17 2013 // Toyota Motor Corp. and lawyers suing the company were given more time to win final approval of a $1.1 billion settlement of claims that recalls related to unintended acceleration hurt the value of U.S. customers’...
Washington Public Employee Fired Over Fruit Pie Suing City
Jun 17 2013 // A Bridgeport, Wash., public works employee who was fired by the mayor for shoplifting a $1.69 fruit pie is filing a wrongful termination lawsuit against the city. Mayor Marilynn Lynn said the value of the theft...
Solar Construction: Too Hot to Handle?
Jun 17 2013 // The solar construction industry has been extremely hot in recent years. Perhaps, too hot. The sector’s rapid growth has led to an oversupply of solar panels, which has turned up the heat on manufacturers to lower...
BP Shareholders Seek Class Action Status for Suit Over Gulf Spill
Jun 16 2013 // BP Plc’s U.S. investors asked a federal court to grant class action, or group, status for their lawsuit claiming the company misled them before and after the 2010 spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The investors, led by...
Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Utah Police Agency
Jun 14 2013 // The family of a young woman fatally shot by West Valley City police has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the officers involved and the former police chief. Danielle Willard’s parents filed the lawsuit Wednesday...
