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Attempt to Mediate West Virginia Monsanto Suit Fails
Dec 30 2011 // Another attempt to resolve a West Virginia class-action pollution lawsuit against Monsanto Co. has failed. Media outlets report that several hundred plaintiffs attended a court-ordered mediation Tuesday at a Charleston...
New York Unions Sue State Over Retiree Health Insurance Costs
Dec 29 2011 // Unions representing state workers in New York have filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the Cuomo administration challenging an increase in health insurance contributions for thousands of retirees. According to the...
Former New Mexico Hospital Exec Sued Over Missing $3.2M
Dec 29 2011 // A recently filed lawsuit accuses a former executive at a New Mexico hospital of bilking the care center out of more than $3 million by funneling the money through companies he owned in Arizona, Texas and New Mexico. The...
Suit in Mass. Bullying Case Was Settled for $225,000, Documents Show
Dec 29 2011 // A lawsuit brought by the parents of Phoebe Prince, a 15-year-old Irish immigrant in Massachusetts who committed suicide after relentless bullying, was settled for $225,000, according to documents made public Tuesday. The...
Jan. 2 Deadline Looms For People Suing Over 9/11 Health Claims
Dec 28 2011 // More than 1,600 people who filed lawsuits claiming that their health was ruined by dust and smoke from the collapsed World Trade Center must decide by Jan. 2, 2012, whether to keep fighting in court, or drop the litigation...
Unhappy Law School Grads Consider Suing Their Alma Maters
Dec 28 2011 // Many law schools try to attract more applicants by showing off how well their graduates do in the real world. The schools tell their prospective students about their graduates’ high employment and salary figures. But...
Ex-NFL Players Sue League Over Brain Injuries
Dec 26 2011 // Jamal Lewis, Dorsey Levens and two other former National Football League players have sued the league over brain injuries that they say left them struggling with medical problems years after their playing days ended. Lewis...
U.S. Airlines and Lost Luggage Liability
Dec 26 2011 // With so many people flying over the holidays, there’s a good chance some of these travelers will end up at their final destination without their luggage. Nearly four of every 1,000 passengers filed a complaint about...
E-Trade, Insurers to Settle Mortgage Class Action Lawsuit for $79M
Dec 22 2011 // E-Trade Financial and its insurers have agreed in principle to pay $79 million to settle class action lawsuits brought against the online brokerage as a result of losses in its mortgage and home equity loans portfolio in...
Utah Pollution Fighters Sue Kennecott Over Mining Dust
Dec 21 2011 // 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...
N.Y. Court: AG Enforcement Doesn’t Pre-empt Private Securities Suits
Dec 21 2011 // Enforcement by the state attorney general against securities fraud doesn’t pre-empt private common-law claims of negligence against investment companies, New York’s top court ruled Tuesday. The Court of Appeals...
Louisiana Citizens Owes More than $100M to Policyholders, High Court Says
Dec 20 2011 // 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...
West Virginia AG Sues Insurer, Auto Repair Shop
Dec 20 2011 // West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw said last week that his office has sued Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and an auto repair shop. The attorney general says the defendants allegedly repaired vehicles with what...
Utah Widow Sues Again Over Suicide In Artifacts Case
Dec 19 2011 // The widow of a Blanding, Utah doctor who killed himself after his June 2009 arrest in a Utah ancient artifacts trafficking case has filed another wrongful death lawsuit. The Salt Lake Tribune reports Jeanne Redd names the...
New Hampshire Woman, Children Win $8.5M in Wrongful Death Lawsuit
Dec 19 2011 // A New Hampshire woman and her two children have won $8.5 million in a wrongful death lawsuit against a trucking company. A federal court jury in Concord concluded last Thursday that Loignon Champ-Carr Inc. negligently...
Chevron Lawsuit Flags Brazil Investment Risks
Dec 16 2011 // A $10.6 billion lawsuit against U.S. oil company Chevron and rig contractor Transocean could further cool an increasingly chilly investment climate in Brazil’s natural resources industry. The lawsuit, filed as a...
Judge Tosses JPMorgan Lawsuit Against Insurers
Dec 14 2011 // A JPMorgan unit cannot force insurers to pay a $250 million settlement between failed investment bank Bear Stearns and government regulators, a state appeals court in New York ruled on Tuesday. Reversing a trial court, the...
California Family Who Lost 4 Sues Over Military Jet Crash
Dec 13 2011 // A family that lost four members when a military jet crashed into their San Diego home in 2008 is suing the U.S. government for compensation for an accident that the Marine Corps has acknowledged was caused by a mechanical...
SEC Sues Brokerage Insurance Fund Over Stanford Victims’ Claims
Dec 13 2011 // Federal securities regulators have sued a brokerage industry backed fund on behalf of victims who lost money in Allen Stanford’s alleged $7 billion Ponzi scheme and have yet to recover any funds. The U.S. Securities...
San Diego County Hospitals Settle Dumping Lawsuits
Dec 9 2011 // Two San Diego County hospitals will pay about $375,000 to settle lawsuits claiming they illegally dumped blood, needles and other medical waste in a landfill. The San Diego County district attorney’s office on...
