Latest Lawsuits Headlines
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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...
Supreme Court to Hear Comcast, Amgen Cases on Class Action Limits
Nov 6 2012 // The U.S. Supreme Court considered appeals by Comcast Corp. and Amgen Inc. that could help determine what kind of evidence must be presented before companies may be the subject of class-action lawsuits. Monday’s...
California’s Prop. 33 is Bomb-Tossing Battle to the End
Nov 5 2012 // Attack, attack and attack again. That’s been the modus operandi of each side in the Proposition 33 campaign, an initiative on the California ballot that enables automobile insurance consumers to take the loyalty...
Dad Of Girl Killed In Colorado Theater Shooting Sues
Nov 5 2012 // The father of the youngest person killed in the Colorado theater shootings is the latest to file a lawsuit in federal court against the theater operator. The Denver Post reported 6-year-old Veronica Moser-Sullivan’s...
N.Y. Auto Shop’s Lawsuit Against Progressive Moves Forward
Nov 5 2012 // A New York-based auto body shop has been allowed to move forward with its lawsuit that accuses Progressive Insurance Group Company and its affiliates of deceptive acts and practices. The ruling last month by the Appellate...
Tennessee Meningitis Patient Sues Massachusetts Pharmacy
Nov 5 2012 // A Hendersonville, Tenn. woman sickened by fungal meningitis after receiving a steroid injection for back pain is suing the pharmacy that supplied the drug. Janet Russell and her husband, Robert Russell, sued the New...
Meningitis Lawsuits: Success Could Hinge on Whether Courts See Product Liability or Medical Malpractice
Nov 5 2012 // Victims of a deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak are starting to sue the physicians and clinics that administered tainted steroid shots, and the success of the suits could hinge on whether judges decide the injections are...
Businesses Call for Controls on Litigation Funding Firms
Nov 5 2012 // A business lobby group wants the U.S. Congress to regulate companies that provide financing for commercial lawsuits, describing the practice as “coercive enterprise.” The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for...
Texas Lawmaker: TWIA’s Ike Litigation Costs Still Rising
Nov 5 2012 // Texas’ insurer of last resort for coastal property has paid out more than $1.2 billion in individual litigation costs related to 2008’s Hurricane Ike, one state lawmaker says. Information released by Rep. Larry...
Lawsuit Over Fatal Washington Goat Attack Dismissed
Nov 5 2012 // A judge has dismissed a widow’s lawsuit against the federal government over her husband’s death in a mountain goat attack at Olympic National Park in Washington two years ago. U.S. District Judge Robert Bryan...
What’s Ahead in Agency E&O
Nov 5 2012 // Competition, Hard Market, Healthcare Effects and More E&O Suits by Carriers Firmer insurance prices and an upward trend in agency revenues are signs of good times for most independent agencies. These same trends,...
South Dakota Burn Victim Sues Nebraska County, Village
Nov 1 2012 // A South Dakota man who was burned in a controlled grass fire in the Nebraska border town of Whiteclay is suing local authorities for negligence. Bryan Bluebird, of Pine Ridge, says authorities failed to spot him lying in a...
Montana School District Settles Rape Lawsuit
Nov 1 2012 // The Billings school district in Montana and its insurance carrier have agreed to pay nearly $91,000 to the family of a former Billings Senior High student who committed suicide in February 2010 after a former teacher was...
Father Files Northern California School District Discrimination Suit
Nov 1 2012 // The father of a black teenager has filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against a Northern California school district because an employee called his son a slave. N’Jai LeBlanc says he decided to sue the Redwood City...
Faulkner Estate in Mississippi Files Copyright Suit Over Quotes in Movie, Ad
Oct 31 2012 // William Faulkner wrote that the past is never dead. His heirs say their copyright to that phrase is very much alive. The author’s literary estate is suing Sony Pictures Classics for using a paraphrase of the line in...
Lawsuit Over Fatal Washington Ice Cave Collapse Dismissed
Oct 30 2012 // A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit over a Washington state ice cave collapse that killed an 11-year-old girl in 2010. Grace Tam was killed as she posed for a picture the Big Four Ice Caves in the Mount...
Pro Wrestler Hulk Hogan Settles Florida Lawsuit Over Sex Tape
Oct 30 2012 // Former pro wrestler Hulk Hogan entered into a legal settlement with a disc jockey over a sex tape involving Hogan and the DJ’s wife. A statement by Hogan’s publicist said the terms of the settlement are...
Supreme Court Rejects John Hancock Appeal Over Retirement Plan Lawsuits
Oct 30 2012 // The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to consider two appeals in a case weighing the ability of tens of millions of Americans to bring lawsuits over their retirement plans. Without comment, the court let stand an April...
