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South Carolina City Pulls Plug on Speed Cameras But Still Faces Lawsuit
Aug 23 2011 // The South Carolina city of Ridgeland still faces a legal battle over its use of speed cameras on Interstate 95, even though the city ended the program months ago. The State newspaper of Columbia, S.C., reported that...
Fired Worker Wins Bias Suit Against Mississippi Casino
Aug 23 2011 // A former Tunica, Mississippi, casino employee said he was fired from his supervisory job because he is Jewish. A federal jury agreed with him. In U.S. District Court in Greenville, a jury awarded Marc Silverberg $578,000...
Insurer Sued for Refusal to Hire North Carolina Man in Drug Program
Aug 23 2011 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued a national insurance company, contending the firm violated federal law by refusing to hire a North Carolina man after he disclosed he was participating in a...
North Dakota State University Sues Over Denied Minard Hall Claim
Aug 22 2011 // A state insurance fund has rejected a claim filed by North Dakota State University for the collapse of Minard Hall. The State Fire and Tornado Fund letter of denial obtained by The Forum newspaper says the incident was...
Marsh Executive Sues Spitzer for $60 Million Over Slate Column
Aug 22 2011 // Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has been hit with a $60 million libel lawsuit by a former Marsh & McLennan Cos. executive over a column posted on Slate.com concerning an insurance bid-rigging scandal. William...
Hunter’s Lawsuit Stirs Landowner Liability Concern in New Hampshire
Aug 22 2011 // Some New Hampshire lawmakers worried a lawsuit by a hunter will prompt landowners to close their lands to hunting and other recreational activities will meet Tuesday to discuss how to tighten the state’s law...
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...
