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U.S. Sues BP, Well Owners, Driller, Insurer for Gulf Oil Spill Damages
Dec 16 2010 // The Obama administration Wednesday launched a legal battle against BP Plc and its partners by suing them for the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, which could cost the companies billions of dollars. The lawsuit...
U.S. Expected to Join Lawsuits Over Gulf Oil Disaster
Dec 14 2010 // The U.S. Justice Department is expected to announce as early as Wednesday its first significant legal action stemming from the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a federal government source familiar with the matter...
Appeals Court in California Reverses Itself in Armenian Insurance Suit
Dec 13 2010 // A federal appeals court last Friday reversed itself and now says the heirs of Armenians killed in the Turkish Ottoman Empire can seek payment from companies that sold their relatives life insurance. The 9th U.S. Circuit...
Status of Legal Challenges to Obama Health Reform Law
Dec 13 2010 // Within hours of President Barack Obama signing into law last March the healthcare reforms he had championed, several states filed lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of new requirements, including one that...
Wal-Mart Court Order Freezes Class Actions
Dec 9 2010 // The class action landscape changed in an instant when the U.S. Supreme Court decided to review a mammoth sex discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Even though a ruling likely will not come for months, some...
Lawsuit Filed Over Deadly Tennessee Home Blast
Dec 9 2010 // A couple who lost a son in a Tennessee home explosion last year has filed a wrongful death suit against the Knoxville Utilities Board. According to WBIR-TV, Steve and Sue Krzeski claim a device connecting the natural gas...
Lawyer Malpractice Claims on the Rise
Dec 8 2010 // The economy has taken its toll on all businesses today and law firms are no exception. They have experienced downsizing, pressure to change specialties in order to compete for new business, and other cost cutting measures,...
Minnesota’s Top Lawyer Sues Discover Over Charges
Dec 8 2010 // Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson sued Discover on Dec. 6, accusing one of the nation’s biggest credit card companies of billing tens of thousands of Minnesota customers for account protection programs they...
New York Prosecutor Faces $75M Defamation Suit
Dec 8 2010 // An upstate New York prosecutor who charged a Florida pharmacy in 2007 with selling anabolic steroids to pro athletes and entertainers is being sued for $75 million by the pharmacists, who claim defamation and false arrest...
Katrina-Related Case Loses Class Action Status in Louisiana
Dec 7 2010 // The Louisiana Supreme Court recently decertified as a class a lawsuit stemming from Hurricane Katrina that a lower court had previously found met the requirements for class action status. The plaintiffs in the suit are...
Alabama High Court Reinstates Suit Over Deadly Bus Crash
Dec 7 2010 // Victims of a 2006 school bus crash that killed four high school students and injured two dozen others in Huntsville four years ago can move forward with their lawsuits against a bus company, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled...
Mississippi State Football Game Victim of Cowbell Assault Sues
Dec 6 2010 // A man involved in an incident last year in which he was hit with a cowbell at a Mississippi State football game has sued his alleged attacker and the Southeastern Conference. Records in Oktibbeha County Circuit Court show...
Supreme Court to Hear Wal-Mart Sex-Bias Class Action Certification
Dec 6 2010 // The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it would decide if the largest sex-discrimination class-action lawsuit in U.S. history against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. can proceed, a case involving women workers who seek billions of...
Lawyer Malpractice Claims on the Rise
Dec 5 2010 // Economy, Fees Countersuits and ‘Door Law’ Changing E&O Climate The economy has taken its toll on all businesses today and law firms are no exception. They have experienced downsizing, pressure to change...
Wyoming Insurers That Provide Fraud Tips Shielded From Lawsuits
Dec 5 2010 // Wyoming’s Joint Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Interim Committee has endorsed a draft fraud bill that would protect insurers from civil liability for furnishing information relating to insurance...
Kings Sue Exercise Ball Maker after Player Hurt
Dec 3 2010 // The Sacramento Kings basketball team is suing three companies in federal court over an exercise ball that burst and injured one of their players. Roger Dreyer, the lawyer representing the team, said on Wednesday that...
Injured Former Player Sues NFL Pension Plan
Dec 2 2010 // A former running back for the Washington Redskins and Carolina Panthers is suing the NFL’s pension plan, saying he should receive the highest level of disability benefits because of a spine injury from a...
Insurer Sues Apple Over Connecticut House Fire
Dec 2 2010 // Great Northern Insurance is suing electronics firm Apple, claiming that a faulty laptop charger for one of its computers triggered a massive house fire in Central Connecticut. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in...
AXA Sues ING in New York over 2008 Mexican Insurance Sale
Nov 30 2010 // A unit of French insurer AXA has sued an arm of Dutch insurer ING in New York state court, alleging ING misrepresented the financial health of a Mexican insurance company it sold to AXA in 2008. AXA said it has suffered...
Hate Crime Victim’s Estate Sues New York Authorities
Nov 24 2010 // The estate of an Ecuadorean immigrant has filed a $40 million civil rights lawsuit that blames police inaction over prior violence for the man’s stabbing death during a confrontation with a mob of teens who had made...
