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Governments Getting Into Patent Buying Business: Reuters
Mar 20 2013 // Patent competition in the United States is usually a fierce arena for private companies, but now the South Korean and French governments are suiting up. Both countries have launched patent-acquisition companies, with the...
Supreme Court Insurance Ruling a Setback for Class Action Claimants
Mar 20 2013 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a homeowner seeking to sue his insurer could not file suit in a state court considered friendly to plaintiffs. In a unanimous ruling that marks a setback for lawyers who file...
Supreme Court Nixes Bid to Bypass Federal Court on Class Actions
Mar 19 2013 // A plaintiff seeking class action status for a claim may not bypass federal court for a friendlier state court by agreeing to cap damages below the $5 million threshold for cases federal law says companies have a right to...
Suit Alleges Oregon Teen Burned During MRI
Mar 18 2013 // A teenage boy and his mother have sued a Portland hospital, alleging the boy was burned after a technician left metal discs on his body during a magnetic resonance imaging exam. The Oregonian reported that Aaron Lee and...
Court Throws Out Class Action Against JP Morgan Over Clearing Broker
Mar 18 2013 // A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday threw out a class action lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase & Co., making it easier for companies that clear trades to avoid being accountable to investors who are defrauded by their...
Iowa County Settles Lawsuits Over Strip Searches
Mar 15 2013 // Woodbury County officials in northwest Iowa have decided to pay three women a total of $385,000 to settle their lawsuits over strip searches at the county jail. Woodbury County Board Chairman Larry Clausen said the board...
New Mexico Drunken Driver Explains Suit Against Friend, Restaurants
Mar 15 2013 // A Santa Fe, N.M. man convicted of a fatal 2010 drunken-driving accident says his filing a lawsuit against two restaurants and a drinking buddy doesn’t mean he’s not taking responsibility for his actions. James...
Credit Suisse to Pay $400 Million to Settle U.S. Bond Lawsuits
Mar 15 2013 // Credit Suisse Group AG has agreed to pay at least $400 million to settle lawsuits by investors over the Swiss bank’s role in raising money for a healthcare financing company that collapsed in a $2.9 billion fraud...
Sirius XM Sues D&O Insurers, Seeks to Recoup Post-Merger Defense Costs
Mar 14 2013 // New York-based satellite radio services company Sirius XM Radio Inc. filed a lawsuit against two directors and officers insurers last week. Sirius XM alleges XL Specialty Insurance Co. and U.S. Specialty Insurance...
Arizona Law On Medical Malpractice Suits Upheld
Mar 14 2013 // A new Arizona Supreme Court ruling upholds a state law that seeks to screen out flimsy medical-malpractice suits by requiring that plaintiffs have a testifying witness from the same medical specialty as the doctor being...
Greenberg Doubles Claims in AIG Bailout Suit vs. U.S. to $55 Billion
Mar 12 2013 // Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, the former American International Group Inc. chief executive, has more than doubled the size of his class action lawsuit against the United States over the insurer’s bailout to...
New York State Psychiatric Association Files Suit Against UnitedHealth
Mar 12 2013 // The New York State Psychiatric Association and consumers with health insurance from UnitedHealth Group Inc on Monday sued the company over mental health benefits, saying it had not provided the treatments that federal and...
AIG Shareholders Gain Class Action Status in Greenberg’s Bailout Suit
Mar 12 2013 // Two groups of American International Group Inc. shareholders won class-action status from a federal judge on Monday in a $25 billion lawsuit by former Chief Executive Maurice “Hank” Greenberg over alleged...
Wisconsin Woman Loses Privacy Lawsuit Against Google
Mar 11 2013 // A federal appeals court has dismissed a Wisconsin woman’s lawsuit against Google Inc. alleging that it was using her name to generate revenue through online advertising. Beverly Stayart, of Elkhorn, alleged that if...
Wrongful Death Lawsuit in Idaho Filed On Behalf Of Marine
Mar 11 2013 // A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against the owners of a Meridian apartment building and its property management company after an 18-year-old Marine died of carbon monoxide poisoning in his girlfriend’s...
New Mexico Drunken Driver Sues Buddy, Restaurants
Mar 11 2013 // A repeat drunken driver convicted in a crash that killed two teenagers has sued his drinking buddy and two Santa Fe restaurants that served him alcohol. James Ruiz, 37, filed a lawsuit Wednesday in New Mexico District...
Southern California Hotel Sued Over Corpse in Water
Mar 11 2013 // Two former guests of a Southern California hotel where a 21-year-old woman’s corpse was found floating in a rooftop water tank have sued. A lawsuit was filed in February in Los Angeles Superior Court against the...
Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Sued for Denying Wind Mitigation Discounts
Mar 11 2013 // Citizens Property Insurance Corp. purposefully deprived customers of windstorm mitigation discounts through an arbitrary reinspection program that has cost customers nearly $200 million. That claim is the basis of a...
Suits Against Army Corps Over Nashville Floods Dismissed
Mar 11 2013 // A federal judge has dismissed a pair of lawsuits claiming the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was responsible for flood damage in 2010 to the Grand Ole Opry, Gibson Guitar and other Nashville-area businesses. The companies...
Family’s Lawsuit Against Charlotte Airport, US Airways Dismissed
Mar 8 2013 // A North Carolina judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against Charlotte, its airport and an airline by the family of a teen who apparently fell to his death from the wheel well of a jet approaching Boston. Superior Court...
