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Family of Slain Girl Sues Georgia Apartment Complex
Feb 16 2012 // The family of a 7-year-old girl who was slain is accusing managers of her apartment complex of failing to properly check the background of a maintenance man who later confessed to killing her. The Atlanta...
Massachusetts Hotel, Workers Settle Class-Action Lawsuit Over Tips
Feb 15 2012 // About 150 current and former employees of a Pittsfield, Mass., hotel as well as hotel management have reached a $1.3 million agreement in a dispute over tips the workers claim they were entitled to but never received. The...
More Shipwreck Survivors File Lawsuits against Carnival, Costa Cruises
Feb 14 2012 // Dozens of additional survivors of the Costa Concordia shipwreck off Italy have joined a Florida lawsuit that accuses the ship’s owners of gross negligence and fraud, and asks for at least $528 million in damages. An...
New York Leads 11 States in Suing EPA Over Soot Rules
Feb 14 2012 // New York and 10 other states filed a lawsuit last Friday designed to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to issue new regulations on soot pollution. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said the lawsuit...
Montana Nurse Settles Wrongful Discharge Lawsuit
Feb 14 2012 // A Bozeman, Mont. nurse who was fired after serving as a surrogate mother for a patient has settled her wrongful discharge lawsuit with Billings Clinic. Anicee Acosta-Yearick worked for Bozeman OB/GYN, which is owned by...
Wall Street Fights Back vs. Expert Witness in Lawsuits
Feb 14 2012 // For years, Craig McCann played a prominent role as a top expert witness, his testimony helping to win millions of dollars for investors who sued financial companies. As those victories piled up, brokerages went to war on...
BP Wins Dismissal of Part of Investor Lawsuit Over Gulf Oil Spill
Feb 13 2012 // A U.S. federal judge dismissed a large part of a nationwide lawsuit accusing BP Plc and top executives of fraud for misleading shareholders before and after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill about the oil company’s...
Oregon’s ‘Second Lawsuit’ Legislation Tabled
Feb 13 2012 // The Oregon House Judiciary Committee on Monday tabled HB 4136, a bill its detractors said would have imported “the legacy of bad faith litigation” from neighboring states into Oregon. A handful of insurance...
Lawsuit Seeks $8 Million in Murders by Oregon Sergeant
Feb 13 2012 // Relatives of two women killed by an off-duty Clackamas County, Ore., sheriff’s sergeant are seeking $8 million in a lawsuit that alleges the county, the sheriff and two top aides knew the man was dangerously...
Parents Sue Park for $2.4 Million After Oregon Toddlers’ Deaths
Feb 13 2012 // A fire that killed two toddlers is the subject of a Umatilla County lawsuit that alleges negligence on the parts of the Seattle-based management company and the trailer park manager. The suit names the toddlers’...
China Author Sues for Defamation Over Ghostwriting Claims
Feb 13 2012 // Celebrity author Han Han has filed a defamation lawsuit in Shanghai against a writer who alleges some of Han’s prolific works were penned by others. Han, a novelist and semiprofessional race-car driver popular among...
Louisiana Citizens Offers to Settle Katrina-Rita Suit for $80M
Feb 13 2012 // Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort has offered to settle a dispute over slow handling of hurricane claims from 2005 for up to $80 million, with no more than $25 million of that for attorneys’ fees —...
Lawsuit Seeks To Block Google’s Privacy Changes
Feb 10 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...
Lawsuit: Payment Denied For Seniors’ Home Care
Feb 10 2012 // A lawsuit contends that a health insurer ran a scheme to avoid paying in-home care claims from what could be thousands of California’s elderly residents. Senior Health Insurance Co. of Pennsylvania, or SHIP, had a...
City of Erie, Penn., to Pay $207K in Firefighter’s Firing Lawsuit
Feb 10 2012 // The city of Erie will pay nearly $207,000 to a firefighter who was wrongly dismissed following a 2006 suicide attempt in which she set clothes on fire in a bathtub. U.S. District Judge Sean McLaughlin tallied the award a...
Lawyer Says Cruise Lawsuits Will Force Insurers to Demand Higher Standards
Feb 9 2012 // Insurers stung by multi-million dollar claims over the Concordia shipwreck will demand higher safety standards from the cruise industry, a lawyer who will file suits this month against Carnival Corp for more than 70...
Arizona Senate Panel Votes to Bar ‘Wrongful Birth’ Lawsuits
Feb 9 2012 // A Senate panel voted 3-2 to overturn an Arizona Supreme Court to rule that set a precedent in “wrongful birth” lawsuits. The panel said doctors and medical professionals can be held liable only for the cost of...
NYC Judge Throws Out Beer Pong Lawsuit
Feb 8 2012 // A judge has thrown out a New Jersey man’s lawsuit against a Greenwich Village pub over injuries he suffered following a beer pong game. The judge found Alan Berger voluntarily signed up for the beer-drinking game and...
Utah Officer Dismissed From Suit Over Student’s Death
Feb 7 2012 // A federal judge has dismissed the city of St. George, Utah and one of its police officers from a lawsuit filed by the parents of a high school student who was killed while handling a blank-firing prop pistol just before a...
BP Preparing ‘Vigorously’ As Start of Gulf Oil Spill Lawsuits Nears
Feb 7 2012 // BP said it was preparing “vigorously” for lawsuits related to its Gulf of Mexico oil spill, which are due to start later this month, as it unveiled a rise in fourth-quarter earnings boosted by higher oil prices...
