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J&J Reaches $4 Billion Settlement of Hip-Implant Suits: Sources
Nov 13 2013 // Johnson & Johnson will pay more than $4 billion to resolve thousands of lawsuits over its recalled hip implants in the largest settlement of U.S. legal claims for a medical device, three people familiar with the deal...
5 Southern California Jail Inmates Awarded $740,000 in Force Suit
Nov 12 2013 // A federal jury has awarded $740,000 to inmates who suffered broken bones when guards put down a Los Angeles County jail protest. City News Service reported five inmates were granted the money in an excessive-force lawsuit....
Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Over Upper Big Branch Mine Setttlement Payouts
Nov 11 2013 // A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by relatives of three men killed in the Upper Big Branch mine disaster who claimed that Alpha Natural Resources failed to pay them each $1.5 million as promised under a settlement...
Texas Brine Sued by Liberty Insurance over Louisiana Sinkhole
Nov 7 2013 // One of the insurers for Texas Brine Co. has filed a lawsuit accusing Texas Brine of ignoring warnings about the potential for disaster if it continued mining an Assumption Parish, La., salt dome cavern. The suit arises...
Los Angeles County Settles $7.5M Medical Malpractice Suit
Nov 7 2013 // The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a $7.5 million payment to a toddler who was born with a brain injury at a county-run hospital to settle a medical malpractice lawsuit. The lawsuit filed on behalf of the...
Morgan Stanley Says AIG May Sue Over Mortgage Investments
Nov 5 2013 // Morgan Stanley, the sixth-largest U.S. bank by assets, said it may be sued by American International Group Inc. over mortgage-backed securities that the insurer bought before the financial crisis. AIG purchased $3.7...
Judge Dismisses Suit Against Bank of America For Not Disclosing AIG Claims
Nov 4 2013 // Bank of America Corp. has won the dismissal of an unusual lawsuit in which shareholders accused it of concealing a $10 billion fraud case brought by American International Group Inc. In a decision made public on Monday,...
Insurer For Montana City Settles Lawsuit With Family
Nov 4 2013 // The insurance company for the city of Billings has agreed to settle a lawsuit stemming from the death of a 41-year-old man at Rose Park pool. The Billings Gazette reported that the agreement approved on Tuesday by District...
Arkansas Judge OKs Class-Action Status in Marlboro Lights Suit
Nov 4 2013 // A judge in Arkansas has granted class-action status to a lawsuit that claims Philip Morris USA deliberately exaggerated the safety of its Marlboro Lights cigarettes. Attorneys for Philip Morris had argued that any lawsuits...
Court Says Oklahoma Tribe Immune from Dramshop Liability Lawsuit
Nov 4 2013 // The Oklahoma Supreme Court, reversing a previous ruling, says a family injured in a 2006 auto accident cannot sue the Peoria Tribe or its Buffalo Run Casino, where the other driver in the crash had been drinking. The...
Utah Man Who Topples Rock Faces Questions Over Lawsuit
Nov 4 2013 // A Utah Boy Scout leader whose toppling of an ancient rock formation in a state park was captured in a viral online video is facing questions over a personal injury lawsuit he filed a month before the incident. Glenn Taylor...
Wyoming Outdoor Leadership School Sued Over 2011 Death
Nov 1 2013 // The mother of a 20-year-old Minnesota man has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Lander, Wyo.-based National Outdoor Leadership School. The lawsuit filed by Elizabeth Brenner, of Minnetonka, Minn., in federal court...
9 with Cancer Sue DuPont Over West Virginia Plant Chemical
Nov 1 2013 // Nine Ohio and West Virginia residents who have cancer and other diseases have filed federal lawsuits this month against chemical giant DuPont Co. The lawsuits accuse the Wilmington, Del.-based company of knowingly...
Oregon Mother Seeks $7.6M In Meatball Choking Death Lawsuit
Oct 31 2013 // The mother of a young Oregon girl who died after choking on a meatball at her preschool is seeking $7.6 million in a lawsuit against the suburban Portland school and its owner. The Oregonian reported that the lawsuit filed...
Court Says Oklahoma Tribe Immune from Dramshop Liability Lawsuit
Oct 29 2013 // The Oklahoma Supreme Court, reversing a previous ruling, says a family injured in a 2006 auto accident cannot sue the Peoria Tribe or its Buffalo Run Casino, where the other driver in the crash had been drinking. The...
Justice Department Wielding FIRREA in Financial Fraud Cases
Oct 29 2013 // The U.S. Department of Justice appeared to have struck gold last week with the law it wielded against one of the nation’s largest banks over conduct that fueled the financial crisis. To convince a jury that Bank of...
Idaho Lawsuit Is Latest Claim Against Remington
Oct 28 2013 // Remington Arms Co., maker of one of America’s most-popular hunting rifles, is in court again, this time with an Idaho lawsuit filed by a man who says he was shot through the foot by a defective weapon. Loren Korpi,...
Parents Awarded $3.75M In Colorado Wrongful Death Suit
Oct 28 2013 // An Arapahoe County jury has awarded $3.75 million in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of a 12-year-old boy who drowned in the shallow end of a Centennial country club pool. The Denver Post reported Bill...
Family Members Sue Over Fatal California Limo Fire
Oct 28 2013 // Family members of the victims of a fatal Bay Area limousine fire in California have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against six different companies. The San Francisco Chronicle reported the lawsuit claims the companies were...
Alabama Couple Sues Kentucky Motel Owners for $5M Over Illness
Oct 28 2013 // An Alabama woman has filed suit seeking $5 million from the owners of a Kentucky motel where she says she was infected with Legionnaire’s disease. Vera Ann Johnson and husband John Allen Johnson of Wedowee filed suit...
