Latest Lawsuits Headlines
All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Cruise Ship Wins $24 Million in Florida Suit Against Rolls-Royce
Jan 7 2011 // A jury has awarded $24 million to Carnival Corp. in its lawsuit against Rolls-Royce PLC involving claims of a faulty propulsion system aboard the luxury liner Queen Mary 2. The jury verdict came after a two-week federal...
Former AIG Employee Sues Accounting Firm, Board Over Audits
Jan 5 2011 // A former employee of American International Group has filed a lawsuit claiming that PricewaterhouseCoopers was negligent in its audits of AIG and that the board of the bailed-out insurer failed to pursue a claim against...
Walker Named VP of Litigation Management at Kentucky’s IPISC
Jan 5 2011 // Intellectual Property Insurance Services Corp. (IPISC), based in Louisville, Kentucky, has appointed Sandra Walker as vice president of Litigation Management. Walker’s chief responsibility is to assist Insureds with...
BP’s Gulf Spill Costs Look Manageable 8 Months Later
Dec 31 2010 // As the Gulf oil spill gushed out of control, BP’s financial liabilities seemed big enough to sink the company. No more. Cleanup, government fines, lawsuits, legal fees and damage claims will likely exceed the $40...
Federal Judge Tosses Pennsylvania Bar Patron’s Shooting Lawsuit
Dec 30 2010 // A federal judge in Pittsburgh has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a bar patron who claims he and another customer should have been searched for weapons before they shot one another in February. Forty-two-year-old Thomas...
BP’s Gulf Spill Costs Look Manageable 8 Months Later
Dec 30 2010 // As the Gulf oil spill gushed out of control, BP’s financial liabilities seemed big enough to sink the company. No more. Cleanup, government fines, lawsuits, legal fees and damage claims will likely exceed the $40...
Maine Reporter Sues Ski Area over Accident
Dec 29 2010 // A newspaper reporter is suing a Maine ski area two years after breaking her back while riding inside a giant ball down a ski trail for a story. Rebekah Metzler, of Brunswick, worked for the Sun Journal of Lewiston in June...
Family of Michigan Man Shot by Police Sues City
Dec 29 2010 // The family of a 39-year-old man who was fatally shot by three Sterling Heights police officers is suing the Detroit suburb. A civil lawsuit filed by Matthew Moroni’s family in U.S. District Court in Detroit claims...
Allstate Sues More New York Medical Firms
Dec 29 2010 // Allstate has filed its seventh lawsuit this year against what it says are medical corporations committing fraud in New York State. The $1.9 million suit claims that three medical corporations in the state were owned and...
Allstate Sues Bank of America Over Countrywide Mortgage Losses
Dec 28 2010 // Allstate Corp. has sued Bank of America Corp., its Countrywide lending unit and 17 other defendants for allegedly misrepresenting the risks on more than $700 million of mortgage securities it bought from...
Gay Miner Suing Massey West Virgina Unit Charges Harassment
Dec 28 2010 // A gay coal miner is suing a Massey Energy Co. subsidiary, charging that management didn’t protect him from abusive co-workers. The lawsuit names Massey’s Spartan Mining Co. and a foreman at a Kanawha County...
Insurers’ Recent Success a Milestone in a Year of Chinese Drywall Litigation
Dec 23 2010 // A federal judge in Louisiana recently let 10 insurance companies being sued by Louisiana homeowners over property damage resulting from the installation of defective drywall from China off the hook for coverage from those...
New York Suit Against Ernst & Young Fills Regulatory Gap
Dec 23 2010 // In choosing Ernst & Young as his target in the aftermath of the Lehman Brothers collapse, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filled what looks destined to be a permanent gap in regulators’ responses to the...
New York Suit Accuses Ernst & Young of Hiding Lehman Troubles
Dec 22 2010 // Accounting firm Ernst & Young was sued by New York prosecutors over allegations it helped to hide Lehman Brothers’ financial problems, in the first major government legal action stemming from the Wall Street...
New York May Sue Accountant Over Lehman Collapse
Dec 21 2010 // A possible civil fraud case against Ernst & Young LLC over its role in the collapse of Lehman Brothers could be the biggest government attack on an accounting firm since the collapse of Arthur Andersen over the Enron...
Arkansas Doctor, Clinic Cleared in Malpractice Suit
Dec 17 2010 // A northwest Arkansas doctor and a women’s clinic have been cleared in a medical malpractice lawsuit. A Washington County District Court Jury found Dr. Robert Hix and Parkhill Clinic for Women were cleared in the 2005...
Massachusetts Couple Gets $2M in Malpractice Suit
Dec 17 2010 // A jury has ruled in favor of a Massachusetts couple and awarded them nearly $2 million in a medical malpractice suit they brought against St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester. Laura Ginisi claimed in the suit that...
Study: Tort Reform May Not Curb Defensive Medicine or Fear of Suits
Dec 17 2010 // Physicians’ fears of being sued for malpractice are out of proportion to their actual risk of being sued, according to a recent study. The study by a University of Iowa researcher and colleagues also suggests that...
Families of Victims Sue in North Carolina Nursing Home Shootings
Dec 17 2010 // The families of two of the eight people shot and killed at a North Carolina nursing home last year have sued, saying the home didn’t do enough to protect residents. Seven residents and a nurse were killed and two...
Summary and Status of Gulf Oil Disaster Litigation
Dec 16 2010 // The U.S. Department of Justice has joined the hundreds of lawsuits that have been filed as a result of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the largest in U.S. history. The following is a summary of the legal cases stemming from...
