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South Dakota Jury Says County Not Covered for Dairy Lawsuit
Jan 9 2012 // A jury ruled Aurora County doesn’t have insurance coverage for a lawsuit filed by a South Dakota dairy farming family. Thompson Farms says the southeastern South Dakota county put them out of business by imposing a...
Olympus Sues President, Ex-directors over $1.7 Billion Fraud: Sources
Jan 9 2012 // Japan’s Olympus Corp has sued its current president and three ex-directors for several million dollars in compensation, sources told Reuters on Monday, as the company seeks to draw a line under one of the...
Utah Pollution Fighters Sue Kennecott Over Mining Dust
Jan 9 2012 // Clean air groups are making good on a promise to sue Kennecott Utah Copper over air pollution. The groups say Kennecott is kicking up too much dust at its Bingham copper mine and should curtail operations. They say...
Louisiana Citizens Owes More than $100M to Policyholders, High Court Says
Jan 9 2012 // Louisiana’s highest court has reinstated a nearly $100 million judgment against the state’s property insurer of last resort in a class action lawsuit stemming from Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The Louisiana...
Elly May Clampett Barbie Doll Suit Settled
Jan 9 2012 // The actress who played Elly May Clampett on the “The Beverly Hillbillies,” toymaker Mattel Inc. and CBS Consumer Products Inc. have settled a lawsuit in which Donna Douglas claimed the companies didn’t...
How to Protect Businesses from the Rising Trend of Employment Practices Lawsuits
Jan 9 2012 // Business owners today face tough economic challenges. One of those challenges is the increasing risk of employment practices liability (EPL) lawsuits. According to a 2010 Chubb survey, some 30 percent of business owners...
Aon Wins Preliminary Injunction in Lawsuit
Jan 9 2012 // Late last month, a New York court granted Aon Risk Services Northeast a preliminary injunction involving its former executive. The Supreme Court of the State of New York said it is temporarily barring Michael Cusack (the...
N.J. Court Rules in Favor of Allstate in Agency Franchise Lawsuits
Jan 7 2012 // Allstate announced on Friday that the Superior Court of New Jersey has entered judgment in favor of Allstate New Jersey Insurance Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Allstate Insurance Company, and dismissed all claims...
Opponents of Arizona Law Seek Class-Action Status
Jan 6 2012 // A judge set an April 9 hearing for considering a request by opponents of Arizona’s 2010 immigration enforcement law to grant class-action status in their lawsuit that seeks to declare the law unconstitutional. The...
Insurer Sues Google in Alabama Over Unflattering Search Results
Jan 5 2012 // An insurer is hoping to use an Alabama state law governing deceptive trade practices to stop Google from prominently displaying negative websites about the company. American Income Life Insurance Co. has filed suit in the...
Two N.Y. Port Authority Retirees Sue Over Revoked Lifetime Toll Passes
Jan 5 2012 // Two retired Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police officers who became lawyers have filed lawsuits because the agency revoked lifetime toll and parking passes. Thomas Westfield filed suit on behalf of himself and...
SEC Sues Texas Life Settlements Firm, Alleges Deception
Jan 5 2012 // Federal securities regulators filed suit against a Texas-based provider of so-called “life settlements,” accusing it and three top executives of defrauding shareholders by overvaluing the life insurance...
Lawsuits Filed in Las Vegas Over Buttocks Surgery Death
Jan 5 2012 // Wrongful death lawsuits have been filed in Nevada state court against a Colombian couple convicted of causing a 42-year-old Las Vegas woman’s death in a botched buttocks enhancement procedure in the back room of a...
Judge Tosses $322M Mississippi Asbestos Lawsuit Verdict
Jan 5 2012 // A Mississippi judge has thrown out a $322 million lawsuit verdict that had been hailed as the largest asbestos award for a single plaintiff in U.S. history. The case began to unravel last year after defense lawyers asked...
Honda Owner Bypasses Class Action in California, Hopes Others Follow
Jan 4 2012 // A woman who expected her 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid to be her dream car wants Honda to pay for not delivering the high mileage it promised. But rather than joining other owners in a class-action lawsuit, she is going solo in...
Football Players Sue Chicago Law Firm
Jan 4 2012 // Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Kyle Orton and some 20 other NFL players are suing a Chicago law firm for more than $10 million, claiming they received bad financial advice on investing in energy concerns. The 14-page...
Ruling Boosts Bond Insurer MBIA’s Fraud Suit Against BofA’s Countrywide
Jan 4 2012 // A New York state judge made it easier for the bond insurer MBIA Inc. to pursue its $1.4 billion lawsuit accusing Bank of America Corp.’s Countrywide Financial unit of fraudulently inducing it to insure risky...
Lawsuit Settled Over Death Of Utah Inmate
Jan 3 2012 // Salt Lake County in Utah has agreed to settle a federal lawsuit filed by the family of a 19-year-old Magna man who starved to death while in the county jail earlier this year. The dollar amount and other terms of the...
Securities Class Actions Steady in 2011; Surge Against Chinese Firms
Jan 3 2012 // The pace of filings of class actions under federal securities and commodity laws held relatively steady in 2011 as compared to the previous three years, according to a new report. But there has been a substantial shift in...
South Carolina Company Sues Ex-Worker Over Twitter Followers
Dec 31 2011 // An Internet company in South Carolina has sued one of its former employees, saying the worker cost the company thousands of dollars in lost business when he took 17,000 Twitter followers with him when he left the...
