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Massachusetts Jury Returns $20M Verdict in Pool Slide Suit
Oct 18 2011 // A Massachusetts jury has ordered Toys `R Us to pay more than $20 million to the family of a woman who was killed when an inflatable pool slide partially collapsed at a 2006 party. The Salem Superior Court verdict, returned...
Mississippi High Court Weighing Limit on Lawsuit Damages
Oct 18 2011 // The Mississippi Supreme Court has asked attorneys for more information as it considers whether the state’s limitation on damages in civil cases is constitutional. In an order last month, the court asked attorneys for...
Motorists Sue Tennessee City Over Traffic Cameras
Oct 17 2011 // Motorists are suing Bluff City for $6 million over its traffic cameras. Chris Cawood and Jonathan Proffitt claim the city and Arizona-based American Traffic Solutions Inc. are conspiring to violate the federal Fair Debt...
D.C. Metro Sues Insurer Lexington Over Lost Revenue
Oct 17 2011 // Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority recently filed a lawsuit against its insurer Lexington Insurance Co. of Boston charging that that the insurer failed to indemnify for the revenue losses in the train...
Former Idaho Insurance Investigators Sue Department of Insurance, Others
Oct 17 2011 // A lawsuit filed by former Idaho insurance investigators says they were forced out of the Idaho Department of Insurance for turning over information to the feds during an investigation into an eastern Idaho insurance...
Chartis to Trim Workforce; AIG Settlement Approved
Oct 17 2011 // American International Group said its property/casualty carrier Chartis will eliminate some jobs, with the reduction affecting less than 1 percent of its workforce, or roughly 400 or fewer positions. “As part of...
Homeowners Insurance Contributes to Settlement in Wisconsin Polka Suit
Oct 17 2011 // A Chippewa Falls, Wis., polka musician has won a court battle involving his ex-wife and her new husband, who he accuses of stealing one of his most popular tunes. Ray Rubenzer filed a federal copyright infringement lawsuit...
Louisiana Woman Sues Facebook Over Cookies
Oct 14 2011 // A Louisiana woman is suing Facebook over allegations that the social networking site collects and stores users’ Internet browsing history without their permission. Former Louisiana Attorney General Richard Ieyoub...
Kentucky Mining Company Sued Over Flooding Death, Damage
Oct 14 2011 // A lawsuit filed by residents in southeastern Kentucky blames a mining company’s surface mining practices for stoking a flood that killed a man and damaged homes in Knox County this summer. The suit against Nally...
Widow Sues Tennessee Veterans Hospital Over Husband’s Suicide
Oct 14 2011 // The widow of an Iraq war veteran from Tennessee claims in a lawsuit that the Veterans Affairs was negligent in failing to diagnose and treat his post-traumatic stress disorder before he committed suicide in 2008. The suit...
Transatlantic Says in Talks with Fourth Suitor
Oct 11 2011 // Bermuda-based reinsurer Transatlantic Holdings Inc , which has been at the center of a months-long buyout battle, said it entered talks and signed a confidentiality agreement with a fourth, unnamed, suitor. Transatlantic...
Michigan Court Says Man Can Sue In-Laws Over Fall
Oct 11 2011 // This could make the family Thanksgiving a bit uncomfortable. A Detroit-area man is suing his in-laws after falling through their garage attic while hunting for a Christmas wreath. The Michigan appeals court has reversed a...
AIG’s $725M Settlement with Pension Funds Gains Preliminary Approval
Oct 7 2011 // New York federal court gave a preliminary approval to American International Group’s $725 settlement deal with Ohio public pension funds. It’s another forward step in AIG’s effort to resolve ongoing legal...
Stine Sworn in as Nebraska Workers’ Comp Court Judge
Oct 7 2011 // Judge Tom Stine has been sworn in to serve on the bench of the Nebraska Workers’ Compensation Court. Attorney General Jon Bruning opened and officiated the swearing-in ceremony, which took place in the Nebraska State...
Mississippi Lawsuit Against Bar Over Drunk Driving Death Leads to $15M Judgment
Oct 7 2011 // A lawsuit and the state’s dram shop law have led to a $15 million judgment in Mississippi against Slippery Nick’s Saloon and Grill. However those who brought the suit do not expect to collect since the bar had...
Del Monte, Barclays to Pay $89.4M to Settle Investors’ Suit
Oct 7 2011 // Del Monte Corp. and Barclays Capital agreed Thursday to pay $89.4 million to settle a lawsuit that claimed they had not acted in investors’ best interests in the food company’s $4 billion takeover. Lawsuits...
Homeowners Insurer Contributes to Settlement in Wisconsin Polka Suit
Oct 6 2011 // A Chippewa Falls, Wis., polka musician has won a court battle involving his ex-wife and her new husband, who he accuses of stealing one of his most popular tunes. Ray Rubenzer filed a federal copyright infringement lawsuit...
Tennessee’s Dollywood Sues German Builder Over Ride Malfunction
Oct 6 2011 // The Dollywood theme park in East Tennessee has filed a $500,000 lawsuit against a German company over a ride that park officials claim has malfunctioned. The suit, in Sevier County Circuit Court, claims the Timber Tower...
Texas Gov. Perry’s ‘Loser Pays’ Law Seen Having Limited Effect
Oct 5 2011 // Texas Governor Rick Perry’s latest plan to kick trial lawyers out of his state may not send them packing after all. The so-called “loser pays” law that Perry has touted as he seeks the Republican...
Court Agrees with Dismissal of Abuse Suit Versus Pittsburgh Diocese
Oct 3 2011 // The Superior Court has sided with a judge who dismissed a lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh filed by the family of a man who committed suicide last year after the diocese stopped paying for his...
