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Contractor Sues Retailer Over Remodeling Project
May 22 2012 // An Idaho-based general contractor is suing Fred Meyer Inc. and its parent, Kroger Co., claiming the retail chain improperly dumped the contractor over the renovation of a Fairbanks, Alaska store. The Fairbanks Daily...
Mississippi Pathologist Settles with Innocence Project Over Defamation Claim
May 22 2012 // A forensic pathologist who sued the Innocence Project for defamation has accepted a $100,000 judgment to end the suit. The Clarion-Ledger reported that the Innocence Project said it agreed to the judgment because its...
Arizona Man Files Lawsuit Against LA Fitness
May 21 2012 // A Tempe, Ariz. man has filed a lawsuit against LA Fitness, claiming the fitness club depleted his bank account. Benjamin Calleros told The Arizona Republic on Thursday that LA Fitness staff members used his electronic...
The Next New Thing
May 21 2012 // Coverage Issues from Fracking Claims Every few years there are predictions of a new type of claim that threatens to engulf carriers. In the 1980s and 1990s it was environmental clean up claims and SuperFund, followed...
Gaylord Hotels Suing Government Over 2010 Nashville Floods
May 21 2012 // Gaylord Entertainment Co. has filed a lawsuit accusing the National Weather Service and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers of negligence that heavily damaged its luxury hotel in Nashville and the famous Grand Ole Opry House...
Texas Attorney General Fighting State Farm Non-Renewal Plans
May 21 2012 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is taking issue with one of the nation’s largest homeowners insurer’s plan to non-renew thousands of policies for properties along the Gulf Coast. Abbott said his office is...
Family Sues California Mortuary Over Switched Bodies
May 18 2012 // A family is suing a mortuary over a body switch that resulted in a grandmother being buried in another woman’s clothes in a California cemetery instead of an above-ground crypt in Nicaragua. The lawsuit filed...
Insurance Trades Join Suit Against Oregon’s MVR Fee Increase
May 18 2012 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies and the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America have joined a lawsuit filed this week against the Oregon Departments of Administrative Services and...
Court Tosses Workplace Retaliation Damages Suit Against Mississippi College
May 18 2012 // A federal appeals court has ruled for Hinds Community College in a workplace retaliation case. In 2010, a Mississippi federal judge ordered the school to pay a former professor $345,020 after a federal jury found she had...
MGIC Sues Freddie Mac in Insurance Coverage Dispute
May 17 2012 // Mortgage insurer MGIC Investment Corp. has sued mortgage financier Freddie Mac and the Federal Housing Finance Administration to settle a dispute over coverage limits on certain insurance policies. MGIC said on Thursday it...
For Law Firm Dewey & LeBoeuf, the Time May Have Come for Last Rites
May 17 2012 // For Dewey & LeBoeuf, the time may have come for last rites. It has laid off hundreds of employees, been hit with lawsuits for not paying its bills and continued to shed partners, including on Wednesday the last member...
Florida Blood Bank Sued Over HIV Infection Says Supply Is Safe
May 17 2012 // A Florida blood bank being sued by a patient who claims he was infected with HIV after a transfusion says its blood supply is safe. Gainesville, Fla.-based LifeSouth Community Blood Centers said in a release that every...
Missouri House Approves Bill on Suing Co-Workers
May 16 2012 // Missouri lawmakers likely will not pass any legislation moving claims related to deadly work-related diseases into the workers’ compensation system, Senate Majority Leader Tom Dempsey said. The state Legislature will...
Alabama Man Sues Florida Blood Bank Over HIV Infection
May 16 2012 // An Alabama man has filed a lawsuit against a Florida blood bank, charging that a transfusion during a coronary bypass surgery infected him with HIV. The lawsuit alleges that the contaminated blood given to Howard Midkiff...
Judge Dismisses Part of Lawsuit Over Birds Point Levee
May 15 2012 // A federal judge has dismissed a large portion of a class-action lawsuit brought by more than 140 southeast Missouri farmers whose land was damaged when Birds Point levee was intentionally breached last year. Judge Nancy B....
Utah Joins E-Book Price Fixing Lawsuit
May 15 2012 // The state of Utah has joined an antitrust lawsuit accusing publishers of fixing e-book prices. The Utah Attorney General’s Office says Utah has joined 29 other states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia in...
Louisiana Sheriff’s Office, TV Producers Sued
May 14 2012 // A Chauvin, La., woman, who claims a deputy used unnecessary violence as television cameras rolled, has filed suit against the Terrebonne Sheriff’s Office and the production company of an upcoming TV show. The suit...
Bozeman Museum Awarded $2.3M in Donation Lawsuit
May 14 2012 // A jury awarded $2.3 million to the Museum of the Rockies Inc. in a lawsuit against a Bozeman-area developer who failed to pay a promised endowment and research gift after using the museum and paleontologist Jack Horner in...
Iditarod Champ Sues Over Nearly Severed Finger
May 14 2012 // A former Iditarod champion who was forced to drop out of last year’s dog-sled race when he nearly severed his index finger is suing the Oregon company that made his knife and the sporting goods store that sold it to...
New York Judge Orders Anonymous Blogger into Court Over Business Reports
May 14 2012 // A New York judge has ordered an anonymous blogger to appear in court next week over accusations that the blog Alfredlittle.com wrote false reports about a Chinese company to drive down the stock. The blogger was served...
