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Consumers Posting Negative Reviews Could Face Legal Issues
Jan 7 2013 // If you are mad as hell about a consumer experience you’ve had, you may want to exercise your right of free speech to express your dismay in a public forum – these days, by posting a negative review on a site...
Oklahoma Mom Sues Over Twitter Picture of Unclothed Daughter
Jan 7 2013 // The mother of a Booker T. Washington High School girls basketball player is seeking more than $75,000 in damages from Tulsa Public Schools, Twitter and others after a picture of her daughter in her underwear was circulated...
5 Idaho Inmates Sue Beer Companies Seeking $1 Billion in Damages
Jan 3 2013 // Five inmates at the Idaho State Correctional Institution south of Boise are suing a handful of major beer and wine companies, contending that alcohol led to their crimes and that they should have been warned that the...
Pennsylvania Governor Announces Lawsuit vs. NCAA Over Penn State Scandal
Jan 3 2013 // Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett said on Wednesday he will ask a federal court to throw out the multimillion-dollar sanctions levied by the NCAA against Penn State University over the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse scandal,...
Attorney Behind $43M Award for Ohio Agent Against Nationwide Insurance to File Class Action
Jan 3 2013 // An Ohio law firm that represented a former Nationwide Insurance agent for a $42.8 million jury verdict is getting ready to file a class action against the insurer “in the near future.” Attorney Caryn Groedel...
In N.J. Pet Sitter Lawsuit, Debate Over ‘Independent Contractor’ Status
Jan 2 2013 // A recent court ruling in New Jersey focused on the question of whether a plaintiff who was bitten by a dog while working as a part-time pet sitter can be described as an “independent contractor.” The plaintiff,...
Murder Witness Sues California National Guard for Retaliation
Jan 2 2013 // A sergeant is suing his employer, the California Army National Guard, for alleged retaliation after he testified in the murder trial of a colleague who was later convicted of killing a pregnant recruit. City News Service...
Texas Residents File Harassment Suit Against City
Jan 2 2013 // Nine people have filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city of Bovina, Texas accusing a former police chief and other city officials of a pattern of harassment and extortion. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in...
Long-Awaited New Hampshire Pollution Trial Ready to Start
Dec 31 2012 // Nearly a decade after it was first brought, a lawsuit accusing two oil giants of widespread groundwater contamination in New Hampshire is expected to present jurors with the most complex and time-consuming trial in state...
Worker’s Comp Reforms, Portable Persistency Top West’s 2012 Headlines
Dec 31 2012 // Dec. 21, 2012 came and went and the apocalypse was so lackluster as to be forgotten among the year’s myriad headlines. Now that we are all well and good, and past doomsday, here are Insurance Journal’s best...
Lawsuit Over Arizona Man’s Taser Death In Utah Settled
Dec 31 2012 // A settlement has been reached in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of an Arizona man who died in 2009 after a southern Utah police officer shocked him with a Taser, lawyers for both sides said. The parties...
Mississippi Suit Seeks $3.6M for Unpermitted Electronic Use of Photos
Dec 31 2012 // A Rankin County, Mississippi photographer is seeking $3.6 million in a lawsuit claiming her images were used without permission in an electronic book. Suzi Altman filed a copyright infringement suit in Jackson federal...
Missouri Republicans to Tackle Workers’ Compensation
Dec 28 2012 // Nearly two dozen years after Monroe Gunter retired from a long career at a Missouri power company, he was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer often caused by exposure to asbestos. Gunter sued his former employer, claiming...
Louisiana Pie Maker Sues Fire Suppression Company, Insurers
Dec 28 2012 // New Orleans pie maker Simon Hubig Company Inc., whose Louisiana plant was destroyed in a blaze six months ago, has sued the Kenner company that created and maintained its fire suppression system. The Times-Picayune...
Toyota Claimants Not Part of $1.1 Billion Settlement Face Uphill Climb
Dec 28 2012 // Toyota Motor Corp. eliminated a huge obstacle with a U.S. settlement over unintended acceleration in its cars and trucks, leaving it to fight smaller cases that will be harder for plaintiffs to prove and less likely to...
Farmers Agents Sue Carrier Over Contracts, Taking Client Info
Dec 27 2012 // A group of Farmers Group Inc. agents have filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court alleging the Los Angeles, Calif.-based carrier has undercut them by sharing their data with a competing subsidiary and several...
New Jersey Court: Pet Sitter Can Sue Dog’s Owners Over Bite
Dec 27 2012 // A New Jersey appellate court says a woman injured by a dog she was being paid to watch can sue the animal’s owners. The Star-Ledger reports the Bergen County woman agreed to care for her neighbor’s golden...
Judge Approves $7.8 Billion Settlement in BP Class Action Suit
Dec 26 2012 // A U.S. judge last Friday gave final approval to BP Plc’s settlement with individuals and businesses who lost money and property in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The order only addressed the settlement of...
Toyota to Settle Acceleration Cases for More Than $1 Billion
Dec 26 2012 // Toyota Motor Corp. has agreed to spend $1.1 billion to settle sweeping U.S. class-action litigation over claims that millions of its vehicles accelerate unintentionally, as the Japanese automaker seeks to move past the...
W.Va. Jury Finds Doctor, 2 Lawyers Filed False Asbestos Claims
Dec 26 2012 // A West Virginia radiologist and two Pennsylvania attorneys who were involved in thousands of asbestos lawsuits have been found guilty of civil racketeering for conspiring to fabricate claims against CSX Transportation. The...
