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Supreme Court Rejects Tobacco Firm Appeal of Florida Award
Mar 26 2012 // The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday it will not hear an appeal by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. in a Florida case in which it was ordered to pay $28.3 million to a woman whose husband died of lung cancer after decades of...
Washington Mutual Sues Its D&O Insurers, Seeks Up to $250M
Mar 26 2012 // Washington Mutual Inc. recently filed a lawsuit against a dozen insurance companies that had provided directors’ and officers’ coverage. The troubled bank holding company that just completed its Chapter 11...
Small-Town Cafe Banter Becomes Defamation Lawsuit in Texas
Mar 26 2012 // Bennie Dale Morris used to be a regular at Frank’s Place — eating meals and drinking coffee several times a day at the smoke-filled cafe — until the restaurant owner’s joking around got a little too...
Change to Connecticut Medical Malpractice Law in Dispute
Mar 26 2012 // State lawmakers are moving ahead with legislation they say will fix a problem with Connecticut’s medical malpractice law that has kept some legitimate lawsuits out of the courts, despite heavy opposition from the...
Morgan Stanley Directors Win Pay Lawsuit Dismissal
Mar 23 2012 // Twelve directors of Morgan Stanley have won dismissal of a shareholder lawsuit accusing them of letting the Wall Street bank overpay its employees even while accepting taxpayer-funded federal bailouts. Shareholders accused...
Airport Security Guard In Southern California Settles Suit For $200K
Mar 23 2012 // A black Santa Monica Airport security guard who claims the city denied him a promotion because of his race and age has settled the case for $200,000. The Santa Monica Daily Press reported 56-year-old Vonnell Adams also...
Missouri Insurance Company Sues Over Mamtek Bonds
Mar 23 2012 // Columbia, Mo.-based Shelter Insurance has filed a $390 million lawsuit against a Memphis firm that it says failed to do due diligence on a municipal bond offering for the failed Mamtek sweetener plant project in...
Family of Los Angeles Gang Member Awarded $3M In Lawsuit
Mar 22 2012 // The family of a gang member who died in Los Angeles police custody in 2007 has been awarded more than $3 million in a wrongful death lawsuit. The Los Angeles Times reported the civil jury’s award for damages in the...
Jury Awards Northern California Woman $22M in Medical Suit
Mar 22 2012 // A jury has awarded a Menlo Park woman $22 million in damages in her medical malpractice lawsuit against the Palo Alto Medical Foundation. Forty-eight-year-old Robyn Frankel was paralyzed from her neck down after undergoing...
$1.29M For Fired Deputy Chief Who Sued Socal City Of Burbank
Mar 21 2012 // A jury has awarded more than $1 million to a former deputy police chief who sued the city of Burbank, Calif. claiming he was fired for speaking out against racial discrimination within the police department. The Los...
Families, GE Await Verdict in Oregon Helicopter Suit
Mar 21 2012 // A Multnomah County jury is deliberating whether a problem with an engine was responsible for the 2008 crash of a helicopter that killed nine firefighters on a wildfire in Northern California. A pilot who survived and the...
South Carolina’s The Citadel Sued Over Summer Camp Abuse Allegations
Mar 21 2012 // An attorney who represents three people who say they were molested by a former cadet at The Citadel in South Carolina has filed six lawsuits against the former student, the school and its president. Mullins McLeod said his...
ABI Calls for Lawsuit, Health and Safety Regs Reform to Help UK Business
Mar 20 2012 // The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has issued a call “for action to free businesses from the fear of the UK’s compensation culture and overzealous interpretations of health and safety rules that could...
Willis Among Targets of Stanford Third Party Class Actions
Mar 20 2012 // Victims of Allen Stanford’s estimated $7 billion Ponzi scheme won a victory when a federal appeals court said they may pursue class-action litigation against third parties they believe aided in the now-convicted...
Lawsuit Against Berkshire Hathaway Over Sokol Trades Dismissed
Mar 20 2012 // Berkshire Hathaway won dismissal on Monday of a shareholder lawsuit that stemmed from allegations former executive David Sokol profited by violating the company’s insider trading policy. Shareholders sued the...
Ex-LSU Football Star Sues Over Insurance Policy
Mar 19 2012 // A former Louisiana State University football player is suing his ex-financial planner for allegedly obtaining an inadequate insurance policy meant to protect the athlete in the event of a career-ending injury during his...
Venezuelans Threaten Mass Lawsuits for Faulty Breast Implants
Mar 19 2012 // Some 2,000 Venezuelan women are threatening to sue doctors, private clinics and distributors for faulty PIP breast implants if they do not get free replacements in one of the world’s hottest markets for plastic...
Mississippi Trial Date Set in Decade-Old Frankel Case
Mar 19 2012 // More than a decade after it was filed, a federal judge in Mississippi has set a tentative trial date in a lawsuit stemming from scams run by a notorious financier who looted $200 million from insurance companies and...
Global Warming Litigation Ruling in Favor of Insurers Vacated
Mar 19 2012 // What Does This Mean? As if times weren’t uncertain enough, the Virginia Supreme Court issued a ruling on Jan. 17, 2012, vacating its Sept. 16, 2011, opinion in Steadfast Insurance Co. v. The AES Corp. and granting a...
Wealthy Americans Fear Lawsuits But Lack Sufficient Coverage
Mar 19 2012 // America’s wealthiest families increasingly worry that their wealth alone makes them a target for a high-stakes liability lawsuit in this uncertain time of high unemployment and tepid economic growth, according to a...
