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Allied World Europe Expands Primary Professional Liability Product Suite
Nov 20 2012 // Allied World Europe has enhanced its suite of professional liability products to include primary capabilities. The new offering, Allied World Secure, consists of five products which cover a range of primary and excess...
Chipotle To Defend Itself Against Labor Lawsuit
Nov 19 2012 // Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. says a lawsuit alleging the Colorado- based company has failed to pay overtime to hundreds of employees is frivolous. The class-action complaint filed Thursday in federal court in New York says...
New Mexico Man Settles Sex Abuse Suit Against Catholic Church
Nov 19 2012 // An Albuquerque, N.M. man has settled a suit he filed against the Archdiocese of Santa Fe and a Catholic ministry group that helps troubled priests over molestation he claims he suffered at the hands of a priest beginning...
Arizona City Agrees To Settle Police Shooting Lawsuit
Nov 19 2012 // Flagstaff has agreed to a $225,000 settlement for the family of a 78-year-old Arizona man killed by police as he held his son at bay with a shotgun. Kenneth Mitchell was holding the gun to his son’s head after the...
Florida Supreme Court Rules in 2 Sovereign Immunity Cases
Nov 19 2012 // The Florida Supreme Court last week put off a decision on whether Citizens Property Insurance Corp. can use its status as a state-backed entity to avoid lawsuits accusing it of bad faith in responding to claims. The...
Ex-AIG CEO Greenberg, Starr May Appeal Dismissal of Bailout Suit
Nov 19 2012 // The Federal Reserve Bank of New York won the dismissal of former American International Group Inc. Chief Executive Maurice “Hank” Greenberg’s $25 billion lawsuit accusing it of unlawfully bailing out the...
Mississippi Kmart Flooding Case Set for Trial
Nov 16 2012 // The Mississippi city of Corinth and the Kroger Co. have asked a federal judge to dismiss them as defendants in a lawsuit over 2010 flooding at the Kmart in Corinth. Kmart Corp. is seeking compensation for flood damage at...
Lawyer Sues Microsoft Over Surface Tablet Storage
Nov 16 2012 // A California lawyer is suing Microsoft Corp., claiming the Surface tablet he bought doesn’t have all the storage space the company advertised. Andrew Sokolowski, a lawyer in Los Angeles, claims that he bought a...
Teacher Sues California School District Over Breastfeeding
Nov 15 2012 // A former Carmel school teacher accuses school officials in a lawsuit of failing to accommodate her breastfeeding schedule. The Monterey Herald reported that Sarah Ann Lewis Boyle has sued the Carmelo School, where she...
California Prison Doctor Wins $3M Wrongful Termination Suit
Nov 15 2012 // A California prison doctor who was abruptly fired without explanation has won a $3.3 million wrongful termination lawsuit. The Fresno Bee reported Dr. Muhammad Anwar signed a state contract in 1990 to provide surgical...
Los Angeles County Settles Bus Accident Suit For $3.5M
Nov 14 2012 // An attorney says Los Angeles County’s transit agency has paid $3.5 million to a California woman whose foot was crushed by a bus. Jenny Lopez sued the Metropolitan Transportation Authority after she stepped into a...
Utah Woman Injured in Carousel Accident Sues For $300k
Nov 13 2012 // A Washington City, Utah woman injured when a panel fell from the ceiling of a St. George carousel is suing for more than $300,000 in damages. A lawsuit filed this week claims Linda Williamson suffered head, neck, eye and...
Oregon Insurers Sue Landowners in Ashland Fire
Nov 13 2012 // Insurance companies that paid $1.7 million to six homeowners in a fire blamed on a homeless Ashland, Ore. man have sued the owners of a vacant lot where the fire started. The Ashland Daily Tidings reported the suit alleges...
Supreme Court to Hear Amex Appeal on Mandatory Arbitration Clause
Nov 11 2012 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider whether American Express Co may invoke an arbitration clause to prevent merchant customers from banding together in an antitrust lawsuit against the company. The court...
Oregon School Services District Suit Settled
Nov 9 2012 // The former superintendent of an agency that provides services to schools in the central Willamette Valley will get $200,000 to settle a suit over her firing. The Salem Statesman Journal reported that Maureen Casey was...
Ex-Utah College Official Files Sex Harassment Suit
Nov 8 2012 // A former associate dean at a for-profit college’s Ogden, Utah campus has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit, claiming repeated, unwelcome sexual advances occurred on a business trip in Las Vegas. Lee Berger, in her...
Insurer Seeks Delay in Landmark Wyoming Hotel Arson Suit
Nov 7 2012 // An insurance company is asking a federal judge in Cheyenne to delay a lawsuit over a disputed insurance claim in a 2010 fire that destroyed a landmark Wyoming hotel. National Security Corp. has asked U.S. District Judge...
Lawsuit Over South Carolina Data Breach Expanded to Private Firm
Nov 7 2012 // A former state senator has expanded his lawsuit over the hacking of millions of South Carolina tax returns to include a separate state agency and private data security company. Spartanburg attorney John Hawkins added...
Attorney’s Advice to Insurers on Reducing Class Action Exposure Post-Sandy
Nov 6 2012 // A veteran attorney who spent several years defending insurance companies in lawsuits from Hurricane Katrina is offering advice to insurers on class action and bad faith exposure post-Sandy. Insurers will be denying claims...
Anti-Lawsuit Groups, Lawyers Fueling Texas Races
Nov 6 2012 // Millions of dollars have been pumped into typically low-spending Texas Legislature races in recent weeks by groups hoping to limit the amount of money that can be awarded in lawsuits and attorneys fighting such...
