Latest Lawsuits Headlines
All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Louisiana Citizens Owes More than $100M to Policyholders, High Court Says
Dec 20 2011 // Louisiana’s highest court has reinstated a nearly $100 million judgment against the state’s property insurer of last resort in a class action lawsuit stemming from Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The Louisiana...
West Virginia AG Sues Insurer, Auto Repair Shop
Dec 20 2011 // West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw said last week that his office has sued Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and an auto repair shop. The attorney general says the defendants allegedly repaired vehicles with what...
Utah Widow Sues Again Over Suicide In Artifacts Case
Dec 19 2011 // The widow of a Blanding, Utah doctor who killed himself after his June 2009 arrest in a Utah ancient artifacts trafficking case has filed another wrongful death lawsuit. The Salt Lake Tribune reports Jeanne Redd names the...
New Hampshire Woman, Children Win $8.5M in Wrongful Death Lawsuit
Dec 19 2011 // A New Hampshire woman and her two children have won $8.5 million in a wrongful death lawsuit against a trucking company. A federal court jury in Concord concluded last Thursday that Loignon Champ-Carr Inc. negligently...
Chevron Lawsuit Flags Brazil Investment Risks
Dec 16 2011 // A $10.6 billion lawsuit against U.S. oil company Chevron and rig contractor Transocean could further cool an increasingly chilly investment climate in Brazil’s natural resources industry. The lawsuit, filed as a...
Judge Tosses JPMorgan Lawsuit Against Insurers
Dec 14 2011 // A JPMorgan unit cannot force insurers to pay a $250 million settlement between failed investment bank Bear Stearns and government regulators, a state appeals court in New York ruled on Tuesday. Reversing a trial court, the...
California Family Who Lost 4 Sues Over Military Jet Crash
Dec 13 2011 // A family that lost four members when a military jet crashed into their San Diego home in 2008 is suing the U.S. government for compensation for an accident that the Marine Corps has acknowledged was caused by a mechanical...
SEC Sues Brokerage Insurance Fund Over Stanford Victims’ Claims
Dec 13 2011 // Federal securities regulators have sued a brokerage industry backed fund on behalf of victims who lost money in Allen Stanford’s alleged $7 billion Ponzi scheme and have yet to recover any funds. The U.S. Securities...
San Diego County Hospitals Settle Dumping Lawsuits
Dec 9 2011 // Two San Diego County hospitals will pay about $375,000 to settle lawsuits claiming they illegally dumped blood, needles and other medical waste in a landfill. The San Diego County district attorney’s office on...
Central Indiana School Bullying Lawsuit Settles for $150,000
Dec 8 2011 // A former student at a central Indiana high school has agreed to a $150,000 settlement of her lawsuit claiming school officials failed to stop bullying by a male classmate. Neither the Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp....
Chinese Court Rejects Apple Lawsuit over iPad Name
Dec 7 2011 // A court in southern China has rejected a lawsuit by Apple Inc, accusing a Chinese technology company of infringing its iPad trademark, a newspaper reported on Tuesday, the latest move in a protracted tug-of-war over the...
Ernst & Young Sued for $900M Over Madoff Audits
Dec 6 2011 // Ernst & Young LLP has been sued for $900 million by the liquidators of a fund that once funneled money to the now-imprisoned swindler Bernard Madoff. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of M-Invest Ltd, accused Ernst &...
Starr International Files $25B Lawsuit Against U.S., Calling AIG Takeover ‘Unconstitutional’
Dec 5 2011 // A company run by former American International Group Inc. Chief Executive Maurice “Hank” Greenberg sued the U.S. government for $25 billion, calling the 2008 federal takeover of the insurer...
Massachusetts Sues Banks Over Foreclosures
Dec 2 2011 // Massachusetts sued five major banks Thursday over deceptive foreclosure practices such as the “robo-signing” of documents, potentially undermining negotiations between lenders and state prosecutors across the...
Texas Man Accused of Drowning $1.2M Sports Car for Insurance
Dec 2 2011 // The insurer of a $1.2 million sports car that plunged into a Galveston Bay lagoon two years ago says the owner deliberately drove into the marsh to collect on a $2.2 million insurance policy. No trial date has been set in...
Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Non-U.S. Claims Against Toyota
Dec 2 2011 // Toyota Motor Corp has won the dismissal of a U.S. lawsuit brought by vehicle owners in 14 other countries who said their Toyotas lost value because of the Japanese automaker’s mishandling of alleged unintended...
Part of Mississippi Healthcare Suit Placed on Hold
Dec 2 2011 // A federal judge has put on hold portions of a Mississippi lawsuit against Obama administration’s health care law. U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett, in a ruling issued Nov. 23, stayed consideration of parts of the...
Attorney Says Man Innocent in Wal-Mart Incident, May Sue
Dec 1 2011 // The attorney for an Arizona man forcibly taken down by Buckeye police at a Wal-Mart says he plans to clear his client of the criminal allegations stemming from an alleged shoplifting incident, and he’s contemplating...
Tobey Maguire, Others Settle Over Poker Winnings
Nov 29 2011 // Tobey Maguire has decided to fold `em and settle a lawsuit over his winnings from a convicted con man during high-stakes Hollywood poker games. The “Spider-Man” star agreed to pay $80,000 to settle the lawsuit...
Insurers Win First Round of Climate Change Coverage Litigation
Nov 29 2011 // In light of the economic turmoil currently engulfing the United States and Europe, the Republican sweep in the 2010 midterm congressional elections, the various protests going on around the country and the upcoming...
