Latest Lawsuits Headlines
All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mississippi Suit Against Healthcare Law Dismissed… for Now
Feb 6 2011 // A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit in Mississippi that challenges part of the Obama administration’s health care law, but he is giving the plaintiffs 30 days to make changes to their complaint. U.S. District...
Florida Regulator Wants Dallas National Vendetta Lawsuit Dismissed
Feb 3 2011 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty is back in federal court looking to end a legal battle with the Texas-based Dallas National Insurance Co. and its owner Charles David Wood, who claims the commissioner denied...
New York Lawsuit Accuses Toshiba of Discrimination
Feb 2 2011 // A human resources manager at a Toshiba America Inc. subsidiary sued the company for $100 million, accusing the electronics giant of discriminating against women. Elaine Cyphers of Mecklenburg County, N.C., brought the...
Minnesota Man Imprisoned After Crash Sues Toyota
Feb 2 2011 // Attorneys for Toyota Motor Corp. asked a federal judge this week to dismiss most of the claims filed by a Minnesota man who was incarcerated after a fatal crash involving a 1996 Camry, saying the automaker had no direct...
Lawyer for Wisconsin Abuse Accuser Says Vatican Refuses Lawsuit
Feb 2 2011 // The attorney for a man who says he was sexually abused decades ago by a now-deceased priest at a Wisconsin school for the deaf says the Vatican has refused to be served with a lawsuit over the matter. St. Paul attorney...
New York Court Dismisses Bond Insurer MBIA’s Suit Against Merrill
Feb 2 2011 // A New York state appeals court Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit in which bond insurer MBIA Inc. accused Merrill Lynch & Co. of fraudulently misleading it into providing insurance on $5.7 billion of risky debt. The ruling is...
Lloyd’s Market: ‘No Direct Threat’ to Suez Canal Shipping
Jan 31 2011 // No direct threat to ships passing through the strategic Suez Canal waterway exists at the moment, despite unrest in Egypt, a senior official with London’s marine insurance market said on Monday. “We are not...
Suez Shipping Operating Normally Despite Egypt Unrest: Marine Insurers
Jan 31 2011 // No direct threat to ships passing through the strategic Suez Canal waterway exists at the moment, despite unrest in Egypt, a senior official with London’s marine insurance market said on Monday. “We are not...
Texas Jury Orders J&J to Pay $482M in Patent Lawsuit
Jan 31 2011 // A federal jury in Texas on Jan. 28 ordered Johnson & Johnson and a subsidiary to pay $482 million in damages to an inventor who claimed the health care giant infringed on his patent for a cardiac stent. Jurors hearing...
Pulsar Re Files Suit against Lehman to Recover $450 million
Jan 28 2011 // Lehman Brothers Holdings has been sued by a reinsurer that wants control of $450 million it said it pledged to secure various obligations, and which should not be given to Lehman creditors. Pulsar Re, a Bermuda-based...
Courts Allowing Private Facebook Posts As Evidence in Lawsuits
Jan 27 2011 // It’s the latest litigation tactic in the online age: U.S. lawyers are trying to mine the private zones of Facebook and other social-media sites for photos, comments, status updates and other tidbits that might...
Alabama Court Rules University Hospital Shares State Immunity
Jan 26 2011 // The Alabama Supreme Court has thrown out a $3.2 million judgment against a Montgomery hospital, ruling for the first time that a hospital affiliated with a state university shares the state’s immunity from...
Wisconsin Legislature Passes Lawsuit Reform Bill
Jan 25 2011 // The Wisconsin Legislature has passed a bill that would make it more difficult to sue companies and collect damages. The Assembly passed the bill on a partisan 57-36 on Jan. 20, two days after it cleared the Senate also...
Ohio Uninsured Motorist Litigation Tied to Money for Charities
Jan 24 2011 // An Ohio insurance company in late 2010 successfully challenged a class action lawsuit involving uninsured motorist/underinsured motorist (UM/UIM) coverage in a case that played prominently in a campaign to change the way...
Sex, Age Discrimination Suit Filed Against Bank of New York Mellon
Jan 24 2011 // A veteran portfolio officer at Bank of New York Mellon Corp accused the company of sex and age discrimination Friday, charging she was paid less than younger, male employees. Rochelle Cohen’s suit, filed in federal...
Investor Suit Against Bear Stearns, Auditor to Proceed
Jan 24 2011 // Plaintiffs in one of the biggest U.S. investor lawsuits stemming from the financial crisis got a boost from a judge, who said a case against fallen investment bank Bear Stearns and its outside auditor, Deloitte &...
Beacon Mutual Suit Granted Class-Action Status
Jan 24 2011 // A judge has granted class-action status to plaintiffs suing the Beacon Mutual Insurance Co. for inequitably distributing $101 million in dividends among policy holders. Judge Michael Silverstein said in his ruling that...
Auditors Successful in Defending Against Investor Lawsuits
Jan 24 2011 // Investors looking to pin blame on auditors for failing to flag risks ahead of the credit crisis are having a hard time getting their cases to stick. All of the “Big Four” auditors have been sued by investors...
Dead Woman’s Kin to Sue New York City over Blizzard Response
Jan 21 2011 // A woman who says her mother could still be alive if it weren’t for New York’s poor response to a Christmas weekend blizzard plans to sue the city. A lawyer for Laura Freeman filed a notice of claim against the...
Securities Lawsuits Set New Record Despite Slowdown in Credit Crisis
Jan 21 2011 // The number of securities lawsuits filed in 2010 edged above the record number of suits filed in 2009, despite an easing of litigation related to the credit crisis. The number of new suits related to the recent credit...
