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Louisiana Citizens Offers to Settle Katrina-Rita Suit for $80M
Feb 13 2012 // Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort has offered to settle a dispute over slow handling of hurricane claims from 2005 for up to $80 million, with no more than $25 million of that for attorneys’ fees —...
Lawsuit Seeks To Block Google’s Privacy Changes
Feb 10 2012 // A consumer watchdog group is suing the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to prevent Google from making sweeping changes to its privacy policies next month. The planned revisions would enable Google Inc. to bundle the...
Lawsuit: Payment Denied For Seniors’ Home Care
Feb 10 2012 // A lawsuit contends that a health insurer ran a scheme to avoid paying in-home care claims from what could be thousands of California’s elderly residents. Senior Health Insurance Co. of Pennsylvania, or SHIP, had a...
City of Erie, Penn., to Pay $207K in Firefighter’s Firing Lawsuit
Feb 10 2012 // The city of Erie will pay nearly $207,000 to a firefighter who was wrongly dismissed following a 2006 suicide attempt in which she set clothes on fire in a bathtub. U.S. District Judge Sean McLaughlin tallied the award a...
Lawyer Says Cruise Lawsuits Will Force Insurers to Demand Higher Standards
Feb 9 2012 // Insurers stung by multi-million dollar claims over the Concordia shipwreck will demand higher safety standards from the cruise industry, a lawyer who will file suits this month against Carnival Corp for more than 70...
Arizona Senate Panel Votes to Bar ‘Wrongful Birth’ Lawsuits
Feb 9 2012 // A Senate panel voted 3-2 to overturn an Arizona Supreme Court to rule that set a precedent in “wrongful birth” lawsuits. The panel said doctors and medical professionals can be held liable only for the cost of...
NYC Judge Throws Out Beer Pong Lawsuit
Feb 8 2012 // A judge has thrown out a New Jersey man’s lawsuit against a Greenwich Village pub over injuries he suffered following a beer pong game. The judge found Alan Berger voluntarily signed up for the beer-drinking game and...
Utah Officer Dismissed From Suit Over Student’s Death
Feb 7 2012 // A federal judge has dismissed the city of St. George, Utah and one of its police officers from a lawsuit filed by the parents of a high school student who was killed while handling a blank-firing prop pistol just before a...
BP Preparing ‘Vigorously’ As Start of Gulf Oil Spill Lawsuits Nears
Feb 7 2012 // BP said it was preparing “vigorously” for lawsuits related to its Gulf of Mexico oil spill, which are due to start later this month, as it unveiled a rise in fourth-quarter earnings boosted by higher oil prices...
Not All States Sign $25B Settlement Giving Banks Lawsuit Protection
Feb 7 2012 // A proposed mortgage settlement in the works for more than a year will move forward with more than 40 states joining the deal before a Monday deadline, Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller said in a statement. States had been...
Investors Suing Bank of America Win Class-Action Status
Feb 6 2012 // Investors suing Bank of America Corp. won class-action status for their lawsuit accusing the bank of fraudulently misleading them about the 2008 takeover of Merrill Lynch & Co. and the size of Merrill’s losses...
N.Y. Attorney General Sues Banks in Foreclosure Effort
Feb 6 2012 // New York’s attorney general on Friday, Feb. 3, accused some of the nation’s largest banks of deceit and fraud in using an electronic mortgage registry that he said puts homeowners at a disadvantage in...
Oregon Jury Takes Second Look At Tobacco Suit Damages
Feb 6 2012 // A Portland jury is reconsidering a $100 million damage award against Philip Morris in a suit over low-tar cigarettes that goes back more than a decade. In 2002, a jury awarded $150 million in punitive damages after finding...
Chubb Sues Actress Marisa Tomei Over $129K Damage in NYC Apartment
Feb 6 2012 // Three insurance companies have sued Academy Award-winning actress Marisa Tomei in a New York court last week, seeking $128,755 in damages. Pacific Indemnity Company, Federal Insurance Company and Vigilant Insurance Company...
Muslim Guard Gets $465,000 in California Harassment Suit
Feb 6 2012 // A San Francisco, Calif., jury has awarded $465,000 to a Muslim security guard who says his co-workers and supervisors called him a terrorist and an al-Qaida member. The San Francisco Chronicle reported jurors added...
Employers’ Alert
Feb 6 2012 // Leading employment law firm Seyfarth Shaw LLP has issued its annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report. The report, written by Seyfarth Shaw partner Gerald L. Maatman Jr., examines 976 class action decisions rendered...
Proactive Risk Management of Intellectual Property: Crucial to the Insurance Professional’s E&O
Feb 6 2012 // Now more than ever, the insurance professional’s ability to create a proactive risk management plan for clients is crucial to success. Insurance professionals handle many types of insurance policies. In fact,...
Judge Certifies Investor Class Action Against Goldman Sachs
Feb 3 2012 // Goldman Sachs Group Inc. was ordered by a federal judge to face a securities class-action lawsuit accusing it of defrauding investors about a 2006 offering of securities backed by risky mortgage loans from a now-defunct...
Insurer: Penn State Policy Limits Lawsuit Coverage
Feb 3 2012 // Penn State’s insurer wants a judge to determine if it has to provide coverage or pay for defense costs in a lawsuit over alleged child sex abuse by former football coach Jerry Sandusky, a newspaper reported...
Los Angeles Sues Over $95M Losses To City’s Pensions
Feb 3 2012 // The Los Angeles city attorney has sued a major financial institution, alleging its investment practices cost the city’s pension fund $95 million. The lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges that Northern Trust Corporation...
