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New Lawsuit Filed Over 2007 Utah Mine Disaster
Jun 28 2010 // Six U.S. insurance companies and Lloyd’s of London are suing for reimbursement of millions of dollars for equipment abandoned inside a Utah mine that collapsed in 2007, killing six miners and three rescuers. The suit...
West Virginia Court OKs Suits Against Insurers Under Human Rights Law
Jun 25 2010 // West Virginians can bring bad faith lawsuits against insurance companies under the state’s human rights act, the state Supreme Court of Appeals has ruled. The court found that the West Virginia Human Rights Act...
A Look at the More Than 240 Lawsuits Against BP in U.S.
Jun 25 2010 // BP Plc faces at least 243 U.S. lawsuits so far arising from its role in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, in what is considered by some the biggest environmental disaster in U.S. history. The vast majority of the lawsuits have...
Massey Suing to Limit Government Oversight of Mine Ventilation
Jun 24 2010 // Massey Energy is suing to strip the federal government of its power to influence how coal mines are ventilated. The troubled Richmond, Virginia-based coal company said it would file a federal lawsuit. Massey wants to limit...
Court Tosses New York Subway Fall Suit After $2.3M Award
Jun 24 2010 // A jury said he deserved $2.3 million, but appeals judges have thrown out a lawsuit filed by a man hit by a New York City subway train after drunkenly falling on the tracks. A decision released Tuesday says jurors...
Florida Court Says Fishermen Can Sue Polluter; Is BP Next?
Jun 23 2010 // With BP’s offshore oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico as a backdrop, the Florida Supreme Court has ruled that commercial fishermen can sue a company that discharged pollutants into Tampa Bay for lost income and profits...
Wrestler’s Widow Suing WWE, Connecticut Senate Candidate
Jun 23 2010 // The widow of a World Wrestling Entertainment performer who died in a 1999 stunt says she’s suing the Connecticut-based company and its leaders, including Republican U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon. Martha Hart...
Lawsuit Fears Lead to Overtesting by Hospital Emergency Rooms
Jun 22 2010 // Fast decisions on life-and-death cases are the bread and butter of hospital emergency rooms. Nowhere do doctors face greater pressures to overtest and overtreat. The fear of missing something weighs heavily on every...
Judge’s Approach to Curbing Malpractice Suits Gets $3 Million
Jun 22 2010 // To settle medical malpractice lawsuits, Judge Douglas McKeon sometimes quietly listens to heartbroken family members vent their anger. He calls it “humanness.” Curiosity about medical matters led the longtime...
Michigan Court Rules Liability Waivers for Kids Do Not Bar Lawsuits
Jun 21 2010 // A parent’s signature doesn’t waive the legal rights of a child who is hurt at play, the Michigan Supreme Court said in a decision that has consequences for businesses, schools and other groups offering...
Court Denies Damages to Uninsured in Hot Coffee Lawsuit
Jun 21 2010 // An uninsured motorist is not entitled to recover non-economic damages for negligence, a California Court of Appeal ruled. According to Teckla Chude v. Jack in the Box Inc., Teckla Chude went through a drive through at Jack...
Non-Resident Blogger Can Be Sued in Florida Over Defamation
Jun 18 2010 // The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that a non-resident blogger can be sued in the state for posting allegedly defamatory comments about a Florida company on her out-of-state Web site. In a unanimous opinion, the court...
Federal Judge Approves $72M Insurance Settlement with The Hartford
Jun 16 2010 // A federal judge has given preliminary approval to a settlement under which The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. will pay $72.5 million to more than 21,000 people nationwide who alleged the insurer engaged in fraud in...
Geico Files $1.8M Lawsuit over Alleged No-Fault Fraud in New York
Jun 14 2010 // Insurer Geico has filed a $1.8 million lawsuit alleging a Queens radiology center orchestrated a no-fault auto insurance fraud scheme that involved thousands of suspect claims for service. Geico did not identify the 10...
Florida Parents Sue Boy Scouts Over Teen’s Death
Jun 11 2010 // The parents of a teen who died of heat stroke during a South Florida hike with his Boy Scouts troop is suing the organization. Attorneys for Howard Adelman and Judith Sclawy-Adelman filed the suit in Miami-Dade circuit...
And the Best, Worst States for Tort Liability Costs Are…
Jun 10 2010 // Alaska, Hawaii and North Carolina get thumbs up while New Jersey, New York and Florida get thumbs down for their tort liability costs in the latest ranking by a free-market think tank. The states with the worst performance...
Mississippi Attorneys’ Lawsuit Against Scruggs Dismissed
Jun 10 2010 // A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by two Gulf Coast attorneys who had accused former attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs and associated law firms of using money owed to them in a scheme to bribe...
4 More Firefighters Sue Over South Carolina Sofa Store Fire
Jun 9 2010 // Four more former firefighters are suing because of physical and emotional injuries from a 2007 fire that killed nine South Carolina firefighters. The Post and Courier of Charleston reported that the ex-firefighters are...
Change in Michigan Law Opened Door to Lawsuits Against Hooters
Jun 8 2010 // An attorney for two former waitresses in Michigan who said Hooters fired them because of their weight told a newspaper the case is about civil rights. But Hooters said the appearance of its waitresses is a legitimate...
Maine Court Rules City Immune in Plane Crash Suit
Jun 7 2010 // Maine’s highest court has ruled that the city of Lewiston is immune from a lawsuit in connection with a plane crash in 2006 that killed three Lewiston High School students. A superior court judge last year ruled that...
