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Companies Sue over Michigan Fireworks Insurance Requirement
Feb 3 2012 // Several fireworks companies are suing over what they call Michigan’s excessive insurance requirements under a new state law. The companies filed suit on Feb. 1 in Detroit federal court seeking to overturn a...
HIV-Positive Man Who Sued Atlanta Police Gets New Hearing
Feb 3 2012 // A federal appeals court this week granted a new hearing to a 40-year-old man who claimed the Atlanta Police Department rejected his job application because he has HIV. The ruling was a victory for gay rights advocates and...
Judge Allows South Carolina Company’s Twitter Lawsuit Against Employee
Feb 2 2012 // A South Carolina company’s lawsuit accusing a former employee of costing it hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost business when he took Twitter followers can go forward, a federal judge has ruled. On Monday, San...
Kodak Employee Sues Company Directors Over Stock
Feb 2 2012 // An Eastman Kodak employee filed a civil lawsuit against Kodak’s board members and other fiduciaries of the photography companies’ retirement plans, saying they breached their duties as the company was spiraling...
Brokerage Schwab Hit with Complaint Over Client Lawsuit Waivers
Feb 2 2012 // Wall Street’s own watchdog filed a complaint against Charles Schwab Corp. on Wednesday accusing the online brokerage of requiring customers to waive their rights to pursue class actions against the firm, a violation...
Utah Family Sues Pharmaceutical Company
Jan 31 2012 // The family of a late Hyde Park woman has sued a pharmaceutical company, claiming it made a faulty pain-relief patch that caused her death. Logan’s Herald Journal reported family of Janine Ward filed the lawsuit...
Arkansas Family Sues Driver, Company Over Teen’s Death
Jan 31 2012 // The family of an Arkansas teenager who died after being hit by a tractor-trailer in Texas last year has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the driver of the truck and his employer. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District...
Court Delays Ruling On Honda Hybrid Suit
Jan 30 2012 // An unusual small claims lawsuit by a Honda hybrid owner took another complicated turn last week with additional arguments that prompted a commissioner to delay a ruling for more consideration. Superior Court Commissioner...
Ex-Partners Cite Nevada Developer in Funds Lawsuit
Jan 30 2012 // Former business partners of Nevada developer and lobbyist Harvey Whittemore have sued him, claiming he misappropriated millions of dollars. In its lawsuit filed last week in Clark County District Court, the Wingfield...
Ex-BP Worker Files Whistleblower Suit Over Cleanup
Jan 30 2012 // A former BP employee has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the company, claiming he was fired for airing concerns about the cleanup of Mississippi’s shoreline after the Gulf oil spill. In a federal suit filed...
Georgia Jury Awards $2.3 Million in Kroger Customer’s Suit
Jan 30 2012 // A Gwinnett County, Georgia jury has awarded $2.3 million in damages after a judge determined that Kroger destroyed and manipulated key video evidence involving an injured customer. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported...
Lawyers Jump Into Cruise Ship Disaster Cases
Jan 30 2012 // Soon after Mitchell Proner, a New York personal-injury lawyer, heard about the capsizing of the Costa Concordia off the coast of Italy, he sprang into action. Proner, who specializes in motorcycle-accident lawsuits, has...
Florida Lawmakers Reject Bad-Faith Reform Bill
Jan 27 2012 // Business groups in Florida saw their efforts to reform the state’s bad-faith law end suddenly for the year after a legislative committee voted by a one vote margin to kill a bill that would have placed additional...
Oklahoma Company Sued Over Accident That Hurt Teens
Jan 27 2012 // The parents of two teenagers who were severely injured in a grain elevator accident in Oklahoma have filed negligence lawsuits against the business where the boys worked. Cherie Gannon, Lee Zander and Rhonda Zander filed...
Costa Cruises Offers Settlements to Passengers
Jan 27 2012 // Costa Cruises has offered to pay 11,000 euros ($14,500) in compensation to each of the more than 3,000 passengers aboard the ship that capsized near the island of Giglio two weeks ago, Italian consumer groups said on...
Muslim Guard Gets $465,000 in California Harassment Suit
Jan 26 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 $400,000...
Climate Change Lawsuit in Court in Oregon
Jan 25 2012 // A Lane County Circuit Court judge is deciding whether to allow a lawsuit brought by two girls against Gov. John Kitzhaber, accusing him of failing to protect the state’s resources against climate change. Judge...
Another Lawsuit Filed Over ’09 Boat Wreck That Killed 5
Jan 25 2012 // The owner of a boat that slammed into a barge at night off the Louisiana coast, killing all five oilfield workers on it, has sued its insurance companies in federal court. Tarpon Rental Inc. says Chartis Specialty...
Lawsuit Seeks Information on Michigan Auto Injury Claims
Jan 25 2012 // A coalition fighting proposed changes to Michigan’s auto insurance laws filed a lawsuit seeking claims information from an association that handles medical bills for seriously injured accident victims. The suit filed...
Loreley Financing Sues Citigroup Over $1 Billion Investments
Jan 25 2012 // Citigroup Inc. was sued for fraud by Loreley Financing over nearly $1 billion worth of collateralized debt obligations purchased in 2006 and 2007. Citigroup is accused of defrauding Loreley into purchasing...
