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New York Family Awarded $130M in Medical Malpractice Lawsuit
Apr 19 2013 // A Long Island, N.Y., family has been awarded $130 million in a malpractice lawsuit. The parents of Shannon Reilly of Bayport had sued St. Charles Hospital and Rehabilitation Center in Port Jefferson. They claimed her...
Woody Allen v. William Faulkner: Fair Use?
Apr 19 2013 // A lawsuit filed by William Faulkner’s heirs over a quote in the Woody Allen film “Midnight in Paris” has been scheduled for trial April 7, 2014, in U.S. District Court in Oxford, Mississippi. The Faulkner...
Deal OK’d in Muslims’ False Advertisement Suit Against McDonald’s
Apr 18 2013 // A judge has finalized a $700,000 settlement between McDonald’s and members of Michigan’s Muslim community over claims a Detroit-area restaurant falsely advertised food as prepared according to Islamic...
2 N.J. Gas Stations Settle Suit Over Alleged Price Gouging After Sandy
Apr 18 2013 // Two gas stations in New Jersey will pay a combined $46,000 to settle claims they gouged gas prices following Superstorm Sandy. The state attorney general’s office and the division of consumer affairs announced the...
BofA CEO Moynihan, Ex-CEO Lewis Facing Mortgage Disclosures Suit
Apr 18 2013 // A federal judge has revived a securities fraud lawsuit accusing Bank of America Corp. Chief Executive Brian Moynihan, his predecessor Kenneth Lewis, and others of misleading shareholders about the risk the bank might have...
Nevada Firm Pays $70k in Suit Over Pregnant Worker
Apr 17 2013 // A government contractor at the Hawthorne Army Depot in northern Nevada has agreed to pay $70,000 to settle a lawsuit over the firing of a pregnant woman and her husband. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Louisiana Katrina/ Rita Class Action Flood Settlement Process Revised
Apr 16 2013 // A previous version of the more than $20 million settlement proposed in 2008 in a class action suit over flooding in Louisiana stemming from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita has been revised. The new settlement now includes a...
Securities Lawsuits Declined 10% in 2012; Future Trend Unclear: PwC
Apr 16 2013 // Federal securities class action filings in 2012 decreased by about 10 percent from 2011. There were 172 cases in 2012, compared to 191 cases in 2011, according to consultant PwC US in its annual securities litigation...
New Mexico Judge To Decide $14 Million ‘Lizard Man’ Suit
Apr 15 2013 // A federal judge says he will render a verdict as soon as possible in the $14 million wrongful death suit filed by the family of a samurai sword-wielding man shot and killed by a Las Cruces Police officer. The Las Cruces...
Judge Nixes Insurer Lawsuit After Juror Conducts Online Research
Apr 15 2013 // A federal judge in Louisville has dismissed an entire jury pool in a civil case because one of the jurors did online research about the defendant. U.S. Magistrate Judge James Moyer excused the panel in a case brought by...
Class Action Suits Against Accountants Declined in 2012
Apr 12 2013 // Fewer class-action lawsuits alleging accounting improprieties were filed last year in the United States, but those that were settled in 2012 carried a higher price tag, according to a study from Cornerstone Research. As...
Iowa Hospital Close to Finalizing $2M Bias Lawsuit
Apr 11 2013 // A Waterloo, Iowa, hospital is close to finalizing a $2 million class-action lawsuit that compensates African-Americans who say they were denied jobs and promotions because of their race. Allen Hospital will pay 35...
Former Livermore Lab Workers Sue
Apr 11 2013 // A jury is hearing from former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory workers in Northern California who say they were unfairly targeted due to age, salaries and other issues. The Oakland Tribune reported 130 ex-employees...
As Gun Sales Soar, Insurance Sales Follow Suit
Apr 11 2013 // Proposed federal and state gun legislation is having an unintended effect on growth in the gun insurance market across the country. Experts in this segment say new policy submissions dealing with all aspects of guns,...
New Hampshire Jury Finds Exxon Mobil Liable for $236.4M in U.S. Pollution Suit
Apr 9 2013 // A New Hampshire jury on Tuesday found Exxon Mobil Corp liable for $236.4 million in a civil lawsuit that charged the oil company had polluted groundwater in the state with a gasoline additive used to reduce smog in the...
Wisconsin Lawmaker Defends Change to Asbestos Lawsuit Rules
Apr 9 2013 // Asbestos-exposure lawsuits would be slowed until plaintiffs reveal how many businesses their attorneys plan to go after under a bill introduced by a Republican lawmaker, who said the measure would prevent lawyers from...
Bills Target Nevada’s Construction Defect Law
Apr 9 2013 // Construction defect laws intended to protect consumers have morphed into a trial lawyer’s dream and a nightmare for Nevada’s building trades, putting many out of business and sending the cost of insurance...
Court to Review Mississippi Coastal Landowners’ Climate Change Suit
Apr 9 2013 // A federal appeals court has agreed to review a three-judge panel’s ruling that a group of Mississippi coastal landowners can sue energy and chemical companies on allegations that linked greenhouse gas emissions to...
Federal Lawsuit Filed Over Arkansas Oil Spill
Apr 9 2013 // Two women who live near an ExxonMobil pipeline that ruptured and spilled thousands of barrels of oil in central Arkansas filed a federal lawsuit against the company on April 5. The class-action complaint from Kimla Greene...
AIG Asks Court to Dismiss Part of Greenberg Suit over Bailout
Apr 8 2013 // Insurer American International Group Inc. has asked a court to block Maurice “Hank” Greenberg’s efforts to sue the U.S. government on AIG’s behalf, saying its former CEO has not proven he should...
