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Louisiana Citizens Board Offers $103M to Settle Lawsuit
Feb 24 2012 // Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort is offering nearly $103 million to settle disputes over its handling of claims after hurricanes Katrina and Rita more than six years ago. The governing board of the...
Bankers and Their Insurers Escape Big Penalties in FDIC Prosecutions
Feb 24 2012 // Like many banks engulfed by the mortgage crisis, First National Bank of Nevada specialized in risky home loans that didn’t require borrowers to prove their incomes. When the housing bubble burst, First National got...
Lawsuit Says Ambulance Firm Dissected Man’s Brain
Feb 23 2012 // A Northern California coroner is being sued by the parents of a man whose brain was given to an ambulance company for dissection. The New York couple’s 30-year-old son was killed in a 2008 car crash. The San...
One-Armed Man Sues Starbucks For Not Hiring Him
Feb 23 2012 // A man who was born with half a left arm is suing Starbucks for failing to hire him as a barista. Eli Pierre sued the company in San Diego, Calif. two weeks ago for unspecified damages. Pierre says that during a Feb. 1...
Virginia Residents File $2B Lawsuit Over Toxic Fly Ash
Feb 23 2012 // A group of Chesapeake residents has filed a $2 billion lawsuit against the owners of Battlefield Golf Club at Centreville and Dominion Virginia Power, claiming that the toxic fly ash on which the course was built...
Pennsylvania Christian College Sues Over Birth Control Regs
Feb 22 2012 // A Christian college in western Pennsylvania has sued the federal government saying regulations that require employers to offer birth control coverage that includes drugs that abort fertilized embryos are “directly at...
Ex-NFL Players in Louisiana Sue League Over Concussions
Feb 22 2012 // Nearly a dozen former National Football League players living in Louisiana have sued the NFL, the latest players to accuse the league of failing to protect players from the risks associated with concussions. Several former...
La. Settles Federal Lawsuit Over Sexual Harassment
Feb 21 2012 // The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections agreed last week to modify its sexual harassment policies and training as part of a settlement with the Justice Department, which accused the state department of...
Court Upholds Lawsuit Against Northern California Hooters
Feb 21 2012 // A state appeals court has upheld a class-action lawsuit filed by servers at several San Francisco Bay area Hooters restaurants in Northern California. The 1st District Court of Appeal denied a request by the...
5 States May Intervene in California Honda Small Claims Case
Feb 21 2012 // A judge last week granted California and four other states more time to consider objecting to a class-action settlement between Honda Motor Co. and car owners over inflated fuel-efficiency claims about the...
Cruise Ship Industry Leaves Crash Victims Little Hope for Recovery
Feb 21 2012 // When Walter Henry Alderfer learned last month about the Costa Concordia shipwreck off Italy, it brought back bad memories. In April 2007, he, his wife and his daughter were aboard the Sea Diamond cruise ship when it struck...
$20M Verdict Upheld in Massachusetts Pool Slide Lawsuit
Feb 20 2012 // A Massachusetts judge has upheld a $20 million jury award to the family of a Colorado woman who died after a Toys `R Us inflatable pool slide partially collapsed. In October, a jury ordered Toys “R Us to pay the...
Minnesota Gov. Dayton Vetoes Lawsuit Reform Bills
Feb 20 2012 // Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has vetoed four Republican-sponsored lawsuit reform bills, and is again criticizing the GOP as “too extreme to lead.” Dayton said at a news conference that the bills ignored court...
Judge Allows South Carolina Firm’s Twitter Lawsuit
Feb 20 2012 // A South Carolina company’s lawsuit accusing a former employee of costing it hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost business when he took Twitter followers can go forward, a federal judge has ruled. San...
Lawsuit Seeks to Block Google’s Privacy Changes
Feb 20 2012 // A consumer watchdog group is suing the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to prevent Google from making sweeping changes to its privacy policies next month. The planned revisions would enable Google Inc. to bundle the...
Penn State Countersues PMA Over Coverage of Sandusky Lawsuit
Feb 17 2012 // Penn State has filed a countersuit against its primary general liability insurer, Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association (PMA) Insurance Co. PMA had filed for declaratory judgment on Jan. 31, arguing that the Blue...
Passenger in Deadly Montana Bus Crash Files Lawsuit
Feb 17 2012 // A passenger in a western Montana bus crash that left two people dead and 32 injured filed a lawsuit Tuesday in state court accusing Rimrock Stages Inc. and Greyhound Lines Inc. of negligence. The lawsuit was filed on...
Family Of Murdered Inmate Sues Hawaii, Prison
Feb 17 2012 // The family of a Hawaii inmate stabbed to death at a private prison in Arizona sued the state of Hawaii and prison operator Corrections Corporation of America on Wednesday. The legal action came after two gang members...
Lawsuit Claims Oahu Pet Store Lopped Off Dog Ear, Cut Tail
Feb 16 2012 // Two dog owners filed a lawsuit claiming their pets were mutilated while being groomed at an Oahu pet store. The lawsuit filed in state court Monday said plaintiff Gladys Kapuwai dropped off her dog Dodo for grooming at the...
5 States May Intervene In Honda Hybrid Settlement
Feb 16 2012 // A judge on Tuesday granted California and four other states more time to consider objecting to a class-action settlement between Honda Motor Co. and car owners over inflated fuel-efficiency claims about the...
