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Connecticut Suit Against Ratings Agencies May Proceed
Aug 23 2010 // Lawsuits by the Connecticut Attorney General accusing three credit ratings agencies with giving artificially low credit ratings to municipalities can proceed in a Connecticut state court, a judge ruled. In a ruling made...
Kentucky Coal Companies Sued After Flooding
Aug 20 2010 // A group of eastern Kentucky residents have sued two coal companies, saying improper surface mining and reclamation caused or worsened flooding that destroyed dozens of homes in Pike County last month. The Lexington...
80 Nearby Residents Sue Delaware Steel Recycling Plant
Aug 20 2010 // At least 80 Claymont, Delaware residents have joined a damage and personal-injury lawsuit targeting a long-troubled steel recycling plant there, in a case that claims owners failed for years to control “poisonous...
Judges Reopen Portions of Bid-Rigging Civil Suit
Aug 20 2010 // A decision by a federal court in Philadelphia has reopened some of the racketeering and antitrust lawsuits that were dismissed three years ago against insurers and brokers who allegedly participated in a bid-rigging scheme...
Mother of Man Shot by Baltimore Police Files $30M Lawsuit
Aug 19 2010 // The mother of a man who was shot to death by Baltimore County police has filed a multimillion-dollar federal lawsuit against six officers and the county government. Gwendolyn Cann claims officers used excessive force when...
Portland Sued $3.7M for Crosswalk Death
Aug 18 2010 // An Oregon family has filed a lawsuit in Multnomah County, Ore., over the death of their daughter, Lindsay Alyse Leonard, while she was crossing the street. The family claims the city, Portland General Electric Co. and...
Cuomo and New York Regulators Respond to Producer Comp Lawsuit
Aug 16 2010 // In a series of court filings, the New York Attorney General’s Office and State Insurance Department argue that new rules requiring agents to disclose their pay to clients are needed to penetrate a “cloak of...
Georgia Brokerage Sues in Case Involving National Baptist Convention
Aug 16 2010 // A Georgia-based insurance broker is suing two former business partners that it had in an arrangement to sell health insurance products to the 7.5-million-member National Bapitist Convention. The brokerage, Kingdom...
Michigan Court Lowers Threshold for Damage Suits Under No-Fault
Aug 16 2010 // The Michigan Supreme Court has made it easier for auto accident victims to sue for pain and suffering under the state’s no-fault law. The new court ruling lowers the threshold of what is considered a serious...
Alabama Becomes First State to Sue BP, Others for Gulf Oil ‘Catastrophe’
Aug 15 2010 // Alabama is suing BP Plc, Transocean and Halliburton for “catastrophic harm” caused by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the state’s attorney general said Friday. Alabama is the first state to sue BP for...
Pension Fund Sues Hewlett-Packard Directors Over CEO Hurd Exit
Aug 15 2010 // Hewlett-Packard Co.’s directors have been sued by a Massachusetts pension fund that alleges they violated their fiduciary duties in connection with the abrupt departure of Chief Executive Mark Hurd, causing the...
Travelers Introduces New Suite of Management Liability Products
Aug 10 2010 // Travelers has launched two new management liability product suites that offer agents and customers the ability to streamline and customize coverage through a modular policy with common language, terms and conditions. These...
Florida Developer Sues Halliburton Over Oil Spill
Aug 10 2010 // Florida real estate developer St. Joe Co. is suing Halliburton Co. over its role in the rig explosion that led to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. St. Joe said late Wednesday that Halliburton, which was...
Exxon Sues Federal Government for Texas Refinery Cleanup Costs
Aug 9 2010 // Exxon Mobil Corp. is suing the United States to recover more than $45 million in clean-up costs at its refining and petrochemical plants in Baytown, Texas, saying the government controlled the facilities during World War...
Age Bias Lawsuit Against Google Cleared for Trial in California
Aug 6 2010 // Google Inc., which runs the world’s most popular Internet search engine, was ordered to defend itself against a lawsuit by a former manager who said he was fired for being too old, clearing the way for a trial. The...
Spain $1 Billion Lawsuit Over Sunk Tanker Dismissed
Aug 5 2010 // A U.S. federal judge dismissed Tuesday Spain’s $1 billion lawsuit against an organization that declared seaworthy a tanker whose 2002 sinking created one of the world’s biggest oil spills. U.S. District Judge...
Widower of Helicopter Crash Victim Files $7M Lawsuit
Aug 5 2010 // The widower of a volunteer paramedic who died in a 2008 Maryland State Police helicopter crash has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the federal government. It’s the second wrongful-death lawsuit filed as a...
Pennsylvania Mother Sues over Son’s Fatal Fire at Gas Pump
Aug 5 2010 // A woman sued Toyota Motor Corp., BP America Inc. and others, claiming their actions contributed to a March fire at a gasoline pump that killed her son. The wrongful-death and product liability action filed in Philadelphia...
Michigan Court Says Teachers Have Right to Sue Over Discipline
Aug 3 2010 // The Michigan Supreme Court says Lansing teachers had standing to sue the school district over how it disciplined students accused of assault. The decision overturns previous rulings that had restricted access to...
Jury Awards $940K in Arkansas Genetically Altered Rice Lawsuit
Aug 3 2010 // The German conglomerate Bayer CropScience has been ordered to pay six Arkansas rice farmers $940,000 for allowing genetically altered rice into the commercial market. A jury in Desha County, Ark., found the farmers...
