Latest Lawsuits Headlines
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Calif. Sues Doctor over Aggressive Billing Tactics
Sep 10 2012 // The California Attorney General’s office is suing a Los Angeles County doctor over her practice of refusing to accept lower insurance company reimbursements and instead billing patients for the full amount. The...
Texas DA Investigating State Farm Hurricane Claims
Sep 9 2012 // Texas investigators have opened a criminal probe into how State Farm handled what may turn out to be thousands of insurance claims from Gulf Coast homeowners involving damage from Hurricane Ike in 2008, officials...
Lawsuit Claims Discrimination By In-N-Out Chain
Sep 7 2012 // A lawsuit filed on behalf of two black men in Oakland claims In-N-Out Burger didn’t hire them because of their race and age. The suit filed Tuesday in Alameda County Superior Court asks a judge to order the...
Anchorage To Pay $5.5M To Settle Rape Lawsuits
Sep 6 2012 // The Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska will pay more than $5.5 million to 11 women who claimed they were sexually assaulted by a police officer now serving 87 years in prison for rape, Mayor Dan Sullivan’s office...
Group Cleaning Kentucky Superfund Site Sues Past Users
Sep 6 2012 // Companies, municipalities and universities in Kentucky that contributed to what was once one of the largest hazardous waste facilities in the United States should have to pay for its cleanup, the group managing what is now...
Suit: Arizona Police Mistook Seizure, Used Taser
Sep 5 2012 // A federal lawsuit says Nogales, Arizona police wrongly used a stun gun on a disabled man after officers mistook his seizure for criminal activity. The Nogales International reported that 40-year-old Diego Lerma claims in a...
New Mexico Whistleblower Settles Lawsuit
Sep 5 2012 // The state has agreed to settle a lawsuit with a whistleblower who accused the New Mexico Department of Health of nepotism and financial irregularities. The Albuquerque Journal reported that under a settlement agreement...
Guitars With Playboy Bunny Logo Subject Of Lawsuit
Sep 4 2012 // Photos of Playboy playmates have gone from the cover of the magazine to the center of a lawsuit between two Oregon guitar makers. Houston guitar designer Stephen Marchione (MARK-ee-ohn-ee) claims he was never paid the...
Tennessee Jury Awards Family $7.8 Million in Hospital Negligence Suit
Sep 3 2012 // A Dyer County, Tenn., jury awarded $7.8 million in damages to the family of a child who suffered severe brain damage as a result of an improperly treated wound at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. The Dyersburg State...
Supreme Court to Review State v. Federal Class-Action Case Involving Insurer
Sep 3 2012 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider the constitutionality of a legal tactic that can make it harder for companies to defend against class-action lawsuits, in a case it will review in the term that starts on...
Families Sue over Kansas Grain Elevator Blast
Aug 31 2012 // Family members of four people killed in a grain elevator explosion last year in northeast Kansas are suing employees of Bartlett Grain Co., including its current president Bob Knief, less than five months after federal...
Ford Sued Over Patent Infringement
Aug 31 2012 // Ford Motor Co has been sued for allegedly infringing a patent that covers a fuel-injection system it uses in its top-selling F-150 truck. According to a federal complaint made public on Thursday, TMC Fuel Injection System...
Beazley Enhances Suite of Data Breach Products for Businesses
Aug 31 2012 // Beazley has unveiled major enhancements to its Beazley Breach Response (BBR) product. Launched over three years ago, BBR includes a separate limit of coverage for breach response services, and Beazley recently announced...
Pennsylvania Hospital, Ohio Parents Settle Organ Donor Suit
Aug 30 2012 // An Ohio couple has settled their lawsuit against a northwestern Pennsylvania hospital they accused of killing their son to harvest his organs for transplant. The parents of 18-year-old Gregory Jacobs had claimed Hamot...
Janssen Pharmaceuticals Settles Deceptive Advertising Practices Suit for $181M
Aug 30 2012 // Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. and its parent company Johnson & Johnson have agreed to resolve charges of improper marketing and advertising of the powerful anti-psychotic drugs Risperdal and Invega in the largest...
Allstate Sues Florida Neurologic Clinic for $7.6M in False Claims
Aug 30 2012 // A Florida neurologic clinic that specializes in treating patients with traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries is being sued by a major automotive insurance company for more than $7 million in false claims stemming from...
Citigroup Settles Securities Lawsuit for $590M
Aug 30 2012 // Citigroup Inc. agreed to pay $590 million to settle a shareholder lawsuit accusing it of hiding tens of billions of dollars of toxic mortgage assets, one of the largest settlements stemming from the global financial...
Ohio Doctor Can Be Sued in Inmate’s Suicide: Update
Aug 29 2012 // A psychiatrist is not immune from being sued for damages by the family of a teenage inmate who killed himself in prison, a federal appeals court has ruled. Psychiatrist Kenneth Tepe had argued that he should be immune from...
BP Gets 6.5K Claims in Midwest over Bad Gas; 2 Lawsuits Filed
Aug 29 2012 // BP says it has received more than 6,500 claims from customers in the Midwest needing repairs after fueling up with some of the 2.1 million gallons of gasoline recalled in three states over high levels of a polymer...
Ex-NFL Player John Mott Sues in N.Y. for Head Injury
Aug 29 2012 // Former NFL player John Mott has sued the league in federal court in New York, saying it failed to warn players about the dangers of head injuries. Mott joined several thousand other retired NFL players and some of their...
