Latest Lawsuits Headlines
All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Judge: Parents Of Child With Lung Disease Can Sue
Jun 22 2012 // A District Court judge in Gallatin County says a Montana couple who say they would have terminated a pregnancy if they had known their daughter would be born with cystic fibrosis can move forward with their lawsuit against...
Oklahoma Judge Rules Against OSU, Pickens in lawsuit
Jun 22 2012 // A Payne County judge ruled against Oklahoma State University’s athletic fundraising arm and its top booster, T. Boone Pickens, in their attempt to recover money spent on life insurance premiums in the school’s...
Judge Allows Investor Lawsuit Over Goldman CDO Conflicts
Jun 22 2012 // A federal judge said on Thursday that shareholders can proceed with a lawsuit accusing Goldman Sachs Group Inc. of concealing conflicts of interest in several collateralized debt obligation transactions, the fallout from...
Lawsuit Seeks to Curb Powers of New Federal Consumer Financial Board
Jun 22 2012 // A small bank and two conservative advocacy groups said on Thursday that they would file a lawsuit against the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, challenging what they call the agency’s “unlimited...
Appeals Court Throws Out Kentucky Bank’s Investment Lawsuit
Jun 21 2012 // A Kentucky-based bank that lost at least $14 million on mortgage-backed securities failed to read documents associated with the investment and didn’t give enough specifics to sustain claims of fraud against...
N.J. Judge OKs Lawsuit Arising From Schoolyard Killings in 2007
Jun 21 2012 // A judge has denied an attempt by Newark’s school district to throw out a lawsuit stemming from the murders of three college-bound students in a schoolyard in 2007. Wednesday’s ruling means the suit against the...
N.Y. Marriage Equality Act Lawsuit Seeks Spousal Healthcare Benefits
Jun 21 2012 // A New York hospital worker and her spouse have filed a lawsuit, saying spousal health benefits were denied to the same-sex couple. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan sought past and future health care...
Shasta County To Pay $855K To End Defamation Suit
Jun 21 2012 // Shasta County in Northern California has agreed to pay $855,600 to settle a lawsuit that accused former District Attorney Jerry Benito of defaming another county employee. The Redding Record-Searchlight reported the...
Insurer Sues Nocal Surgery Firm Over Alleged Overbilling
Jun 21 2012 // United Healthcare Services has filed a $39 million lawsuit against a Northern California company that manages five outpatient surgery centers, claiming the firm overbilled the insurance carrier and offered doctors...
The Business of Insuring Correctional Facilities
Jun 21 2012 // Montana State Prison inmate files suit for $2.2 million in federal court after he injures a toe when his foot got caught in a grain auger at the prison dairy. A Howard County, Indiana, inmate files a lawsuit claiming the...
Facebook Fiasco, ‘Blank Check’ Companies Disrupt IPO Insurance Market
Jun 21 2012 // The Facebook initial public offering (IPO) fallout is just getting started, but its effects are already being felt in the insurance community when it comes to covering directors and officers for future social media...
Suit Accuses Louisiana Companies of Exploiting Workers
Jun 21 2012 // A group of Filipino guest workers who allege in a lawsuit that their Louisiana-based employers subjected them to inhumane working and living conditions claim company officials have threatened some of them with deportation...
Maryland Man Whose Companion Disappeared in Aruba Sues Over Insurance
Jun 20 2012 // A Maryland man who was suspected in the presumed death of his traveling companion in Aruba is suing to collect on a travel insurance policy issued in the woman’s name. Gary Giordano says in a lawsuit that AMEX...
Colo. Supermax Inmates Sue Over Mental Health Treatment
Jun 20 2012 // Five inmates who say their mental health illnesses are deteriorating in solitary confinement inside the so-called Supermax prison in Colorado have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. In the complaint filed...
Lawsuit Claims Driver in Kentucky Tour Bus Crash ‘Crazed,’ Speeding
Jun 20 2012 // A lawsuit filed over the wreck of a tour bus in south-central Kentucky this month contends the driver was operating the bus in a “crazed” manner, had been consuming high-energy drinks and was driving too fast...
U.S. Settles Lawsuit Against Christus Spohn Health System Corp.
Jun 19 2012 // Federal prosecutors say a Texas-based hospital system has paid millions of dollars to settle a false claims lawsuit. Christus Spohn Health System Corp. has paid the United States more than $5 million to settle allegations...
Lawsuit Filed Over Kentucky Tour Bus Wreck
Jun 19 2012 // A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of three students who were in tour bus crash in south-central Kentucky last week minutes into a trip to Washington, D.C. WBKO-TV in Bowling Green reported that the lawsuit in Hart County...
D.C. Attorney General’s Office Suing Workers Over Benefits Scheme
Jun 18 2012 // The District of Columbia Attorney General’s Office has filed lawsuits against 13 current or former city employees accused of collecting unemployment benefits while holding government jobs. The lawsuits seek to...
NV Couple Sues Boy Scouts Over Son’s UT Drowning
Jun 18 2012 // A Las Vegas couple has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America over the July 2011 drowning of their 12-year-old son during a camp program in northern Utah. Christopher and Sherry Tuvell, in their...
Public Companies Underestimate Risk of Directors and Officers Lawsuit: Survey
Jun 18 2012 // Public company executives may be in for a surprise lawsuit. Despite the odds that they and their directors will be sued in the next 12 months, a new Chubb Public Company Risk Survey has found that more than 80 percent...
