Latest Lawsuits Headlines
All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Layoffs Don’t Have to Mean Lawsuits
Sep 20 2010 // The difficult economic conditions of the past few years are on top of most people’s minds. Challenging economic circumstances are adversely impacting individuals and proving destructive to public entities. The weak...
What to Watch in the World of D&O
Sep 20 2010 // Every year it’s worth noting the list of the current hot topics in the world of directors’ and officers’ liability. As should be obvious from this year’s list, there is a lot going on now, with...
E&O Coverage for Real Estate Agents – Don’t Sell a Home Without It
Sep 20 2010 // Liability Woes Include Misrepresentation, Structural Defects, Legal Errors and More Real estate errors and omissions (E&O) liability coverage is big business. Although the recent property debacle has focused attention...
Lawsuit: Gas Drilling Fluid Ruined Pennsylvania Water Wells
Sep 17 2010 // Thirteen families in the heart of the gas-rich Marcellus Shale say their water wells have been contaminated by poisonous fluids blasted deep underground by a drilling company using a technique at the center of a fierce...
Suit Settled over Shock Therapy at Massachusetts School
Sep 17 2010 // The family of a former Massachusetts student who received electric shocks at a special needs school has agreed to receive $65,000 to settle a lawsuit claiming the treatment was inhumane and violated the student’s...
Court: Government Contractor Not Immune to New Orleans Levee Suit
Sep 17 2010 // A government contractor isn’t immune from claims that it performed shoddy work that resulted in the failure of a New Orleans levee system during Hurricane Katrina, a federal appeals court has ruled. This week’s...
BP Denies Alabama Claim Over Oil Spill
Sep 17 2010 // BP Plc has turned down Alabama’s claim for $148 million in lost government revenue due to the worst oil spill in U.S. history, the state’s attorney general, Troy King, said Friday. BP denied the claim because...
Judge Urges BP Oil Disaster Litigants to Settle, Avoid Trial
Sep 17 2010 // The U.S. judge overseeing the hundreds lawsuits filed by shrimpers, restaurateurs and others against BP Plc and its partners as a result of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill urged the parties on Thursday to consider an...
BP, Partners Say Most Oil Victims Should Not Be Allowed to Sue Yet
Sep 17 2010 // BP Plc and its partners in the blown-out Gulf well said on Monday that thousands of fishermen, seafood processors, restaurants, hotel owners and others may not yet have the right to sue over the spill, according to court...
Florida Workers’ Comp Law Shields Disney World, SeaWorld from Suits
Sep 17 2010 // They are two of Central Florida’s biggest and best-known employers — and both face the prospect of potentially ugly lawsuits stemming from a worker’s death on the job. And yet Walt Disney World, which is...
Nashville Mall Sues for $150 Million in Flood Claims
Sep 17 2010 // The Opry Mills mall, closed since early May because of flooding, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against 17 insurance companies seeking at least $150 million in claims. The mall, on the site of the old Opryland USA theme park,...
Lawsuits Over Gulf Oil Disaster Begin With Clash Over Pace
Sep 16 2010 // Scores of attorneys will jam a federal courtroom today to argue for almost immediate access to emails and other documents from BP Plc and its business partners as the legal fight over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill heats...
Goldman Sachs Sued for ‘Unchecked’ Gender Bias; Firm Denies Allegations
Sep 16 2010 // Goldman Sachs Group Inc. was hit with a gender bias lawsuit by three women who said Wall Street’s most profitable bank maintains an “outdated corporate culture” that systematically deprives women of pay...
U.S. Judge Sets December Date for Health Care Suit Hearing
Sep 15 2010 // A Florida judge said Tuesday he would hear arguments Dec. 16 on a lawsuit by 20 U.S. states seeking to block President Barack Obama’s overhaul of the U.S. health care system. U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson, who is...
Judge: Massachusetts Town Can’t Stop Discrimination Suit
Sep 13 2010 // A federal judge has ruled that a social services agency that wanted to open a group home for recovering drug addicts in Framingham can move forward with its lawsuit against the town. Judge Douglas Woodlock on Thursday...
New Hampshire Woman Blinded by Drug Wins $21M in Lawsuit
Sep 13 2010 // A federal jury in New Hampshire has awarded $21 million to a woman blinded and scarred by a prescription drug she took for shoulder pain. Karen Bartlett, 51, of Plaistow suffered extreme burns to her skin, mucus membranes...
New York Giants Sued by Woman Claiming Injury at ’09 Game
Sep 8 2010 // The New York Giants have been sued by a woman and her husband who claim she was attacked by fans during a New York Jets game played at Giants Stadium last year. Michelle Munoz says she attended the Sept. 20 game against...
Ryan Group Denies Any Wrongdoing by Former AmWINS Employee
Sep 7 2010 // North Carolina-based wholesale insurance broker AmWINS has won a court order against a former employee it believes is using confidential client information to target AmWINS business accounts and win them over to his new...
A Wealth of Risks
Sep 6 2010 // Serving High Income Clientele For insurance agents, there is a lesson to be learned from Hulk Hogan – particularly about the pitfalls of selling coverage to wealthy clients. The well-known, ex-professional wrestler...
Dead Soldiers’ Parents Join Lawsuit Against Prudential Over Benefits
Sep 1 2010 // The parents of six deceased U.S. soldiers are suing Prudential Financial, saying it paid paltry interest on military life insurance benefits while keeping more generous interest earnings for itself. Five plaintiffs joined...
