Latest Lawsuits Headlines
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Judge Won’t Dismiss Massey Shareholder Suit Over Safety
Mar 30 2012 // A federal judge refused Wednesday to dismiss a lawsuit by former Massey Energy shareholders who say they were deliberately misled about the company’s safety record before the Upper Big Branch mine disaster in West...
Judge Throws Out Investor Lawsuit Against Bank of America Over Mortgages
Mar 30 2012 // Bank of America Corp. on Thursday won dismissal of a lawsuit by investors who wanted the bank to buy back mortgage loans that underlie more than $1.06 billion of securities. The case is tied to risky home loans issued by...
Iowa Pension Fund Sues Audit Firm Over Fraud Loss
Mar 29 2012 // The Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System has sued a New York-based auditing firm, alleging that the company failed to detect a theft scheme that cost the pension fund millions of dollars. The Des Moines Register...
Lawsuit Filed In Michigan In Fatal September Helicopter Crash
Mar 29 2012 // The estate and family of a man who died in a northern lower Michigan helicopter crash in September claims in a lawsuit that negligence contributed to the accident that killed him and another Detroit-area man. A lawsuit was...
Oregon Company Sues Columbia Sportswear
Mar 29 2012 // A Eugene, Ore., company has sued Columbia Sportswear, accusing the larger company of stealing Innovative Sports’ technology and using it to make a successful line of heated clothing. The Register-Guard reported the...
Judge Approves $158M Drug Settlement in Texas Lawsuit
Mar 29 2012 // A Texas judge has finalized a $158 million settlement between Texas and a subsidiary of health care giant Johnson & Johnson in a Medicaid fraud lawsuit over the anti-psychotic drug Risperdal. The agreement, reached...
Arbitron To Pay $400,000 In Lawsuit Over Ratings
Mar 28 2012 // Radio audience ratings company Arbitron Inc. says it is paying $400,000 to settle a case in California in which it was accused of under-representing black and Hispanic listeners in its surveys in the state’s largest...
Oilfield Cleanup a Big-Money Dispute in Louisiana
Mar 28 2012 // A behind-the-scenes firestorm in Louisiana’s legislative session centers on a big-money, years-long dispute between landowners and the oil and gas industry over how cleanup should be handled of environmental damage...
Another Spectator Injured In Reno Air Races Crash Sues
Mar 27 2012 // A spectator injured in September’s deadly crash at the Reno National Championship Air Races is suing organizers and the pilot. Edward Larson’s lawsuit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Reno, is the...
Fund Lawsuit in New York Against Madoff Auditor Dropped
Mar 26 2012 // The liquidators of a fund that once funneled money to the now-imprisoned swindler Bernard Madoff have dropped a $900 million lawsuit accusing Ernst & Young LLP of negligence, professional malpractice and breach of...
Facebook Says Emails Show New Yorker’s Lawsuit a Fraud
Mar 26 2012 // Facebook Inc. released emails by founder Mark Zuckerberg from his days at Harvard University to bolster its arguments that a wood-pellet salesman who sued for a 50 percent stake in the social media company lied and forged...
Supreme Court Rejects Tobacco Firm Appeal of Florida Award
Mar 26 2012 // The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday it will not hear an appeal by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. in a Florida case in which it was ordered to pay $28.3 million to a woman whose husband died of lung cancer after decades of...
Washington Mutual Sues Its D&O Insurers, Seeks Up to $250M
Mar 26 2012 // Washington Mutual Inc. recently filed a lawsuit against a dozen insurance companies that had provided directors’ and officers’ coverage. The troubled bank holding company that just completed its Chapter 11...
Small-Town Cafe Banter Becomes Defamation Lawsuit in Texas
Mar 26 2012 // Bennie Dale Morris used to be a regular at Frank’s Place — eating meals and drinking coffee several times a day at the smoke-filled cafe — until the restaurant owner’s joking around got a little too...
Change to Connecticut Medical Malpractice Law in Dispute
Mar 26 2012 // State lawmakers are moving ahead with legislation they say will fix a problem with Connecticut’s medical malpractice law that has kept some legitimate lawsuits out of the courts, despite heavy opposition from the...
Morgan Stanley Directors Win Pay Lawsuit Dismissal
Mar 23 2012 // Twelve directors of Morgan Stanley have won dismissal of a shareholder lawsuit accusing them of letting the Wall Street bank overpay its employees even while accepting taxpayer-funded federal bailouts. Shareholders accused...
Airport Security Guard In Southern California Settles Suit For $200K
Mar 23 2012 // A black Santa Monica Airport security guard who claims the city denied him a promotion because of his race and age has settled the case for $200,000. The Santa Monica Daily Press reported 56-year-old Vonnell Adams also...
Missouri Insurance Company Sues Over Mamtek Bonds
Mar 23 2012 // Columbia, Mo.-based Shelter Insurance has filed a $390 million lawsuit against a Memphis firm that it says failed to do due diligence on a municipal bond offering for the failed Mamtek sweetener plant project in...
Family of Los Angeles Gang Member Awarded $3M In Lawsuit
Mar 22 2012 // The family of a gang member who died in Los Angeles police custody in 2007 has been awarded more than $3 million in a wrongful death lawsuit. The Los Angeles Times reported the civil jury’s award for damages in the...
Jury Awards Northern California Woman $22M in Medical Suit
Mar 22 2012 // A jury has awarded a Menlo Park woman $22 million in damages in her medical malpractice lawsuit against the Palo Alto Medical Foundation. Forty-eight-year-old Robyn Frankel was paralyzed from her neck down after undergoing...
