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NFL Facing Possible Class Action Claim Over Concussions
Aug 22 2011 // Seven former players have sued the NFL in Philadelphia over the league’s handling of concussion-related injuries, the first potential class-action lawsuit of its kind. The players accuse the league of training...
California Targets Law Firms It Says Preyed On Struggling Homeowners
Aug 22 2011 // California has broken up what it called a ring of law firms that fraudulently induced struggling homeowners nationwide to pay thousands of dollars each to file mass lawsuits against their mortgage lenders. Kamala Harris,...
Court Sets October Deadline for Women Suing WalMart
Aug 22 2011 // Women who were part of a massive class action lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will have until the end of October to file individual lawsuits against the company, a U.S. judge ruled. Women who say the company denied...
GM Says Bankruptcy Shields It Against Impala Lawsuits
Aug 22 2011 // General Motors Co. is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit over a suspension problem on more than 400,000 Chevrolet Impalas from the 2007 and 2008 model years, saying it should not be responsible for repairs because the flaw...
CEO of Arkansas-based Heifer Foundation Sues Board Members, Insurer
Aug 19 2011 // The chief executive of the foundation that supports the hunger-relief organization Heifer International has sued four foundation board members, alleging that he was suspended in retaliation for raising questions about...
Illinois Court: Homeowner Suit Against Flood Determination Firm May Proceed
Aug 19 2011 // A flood determination company may be sued by Illinois homeowners for failing to determine the couple’s home was in a flood plain, a state appeals court has found. The Illinois Court of Appeals for the Third District...
Most Doctors Sued Sometime in Career
Aug 19 2011 // A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine this week says that one in 14 doctors faces a malpractice suit every year. Moreover, almost every physician will face a malpractice suit — or more than one...
Starbucks Settles Discrimination Suit Over Fired Dwarf Barista
Aug 19 2011 // Starbucks has agreed to pay $75,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought on behalf of a Texas barista who said she was fired because she was a dwarf. The global coffee giant agreed to settle with Elsa...
AIG, Banks File Motion to Block Class Action Suit
Aug 18 2011 // Bailed-out insurer American International Group and dozens of banks have filed motions in federal court to block a proposed nationwide class-action suit against them over AIG’s 2008 near-collapse. Their argument is...
ACLU Sues Over Kansas Abortion Insurance Law
Aug 18 2011 // The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a Kansas law that restricts insurance companies from covering most abortions. The ACLU of Kansas and Western filed the lawsuit in federal court in...
Mississippi Judge Dismisses Claim Against ‘The Help’ Author
Aug 17 2011 // Did Kathryn Stockett use her brother’s African-American maid as the basis for a character in the bestselling novel-turned-movie “The Help?” For now, that question may go unanswered, by a court anyway. A...
Allstate Sues Goldman Sachs Over Toxic Mortgage Securities
Aug 17 2011 // Allstate Corp. is suing Goldman Sachs Group Inc., saying more than $122 million in mortgage-backed securities the insurance company bought beginning in 2006 were fraudulent. Allstate said in a statement that it filed the...
Court Questions Handling of White Firefighters’ Reverse Bias Case
Aug 17 2011 // Reviving a lawsuit brought by a black firefighter, a federal appeals court in New York on Monday raised new questions about the impact of a Supreme Court ruling in favor of the reverse-discrimination lawsuit brought by 17...
Oregon Family Sues Cargill Over Contaminated Turkey
Aug 17 2011 // A Cargill Inc. unit is being sued by an Oregon family who said their young daughter was hospitalized after eating Salmonella-contaminated turkey, the subject of one of the largest U.S. meat recalls ever. The lawsuit is one...
Vermont Town Answers Former Treasurer’s Lawsuit
Aug 17 2011 // A Vermont town being sued by its former treasurer is denying the allegations of her civil suit. Nearly a year after Linda Stone filed the suit against the town of Irasburg, the town filed an answer in court, citing...
3 Settle Injury Lawsuits Over Martha Stewart Chair
Aug 15 2011 // Three people whose fingers were snipped off or injured by Martha Stewart patio chairs have won settlements against her company and Kmart, which sold the furniture, their attorney said Thursday. Des Moines attorney Guy Cook...
Investors’ Suits Against News Corp. Directors Face Long Odds
Aug 15 2011 // News Corp. shareholders angry over the hacking scandal engulfing Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate face an uphill fight trying to hold company executives and directors responsible in court. In the nearly six weeks...
Validus Sues Transatlantic; Offers Look at Books
Aug 12 2011 // The three-way bidding war for reinsurer Transatlantic Holdings grew more complicated Thursday as hostile suitor Validus Holdings sued the company, but also offered to open its own books for review. The dual moves were...
Second Court Allows Damages Suit Against Rumsfeld Over Alleged Torture
Aug 11 2011 // A lawsuit accusing former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of personal responsibility for U.S. forces allegedly torturing two American whistleblowers who worked for an Iraqi contracting firm will be allowed to move...
Goldman Faces Damages Suit Over Failed Credit Unions
Aug 11 2011 // The U.S. regulator of credit unions this week sued Goldman Sachs & Co. for more than $491 million in damages over losses incurred by two failed credit unions that purchased mortgage-backed securities underwritten by...
