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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...
Michigan Court Lowers Threshold for Damage Suits Under No-Fault
Aug 3 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...
Supreme Court Decision Limits Non-U.S. Companies’ Exposure to U.S. Securities Litigation
Aug 2 2010 // Securities lawsuits against BP and Toyota may be substantially narrowed, thanks to a recent Supreme Court decision. On June 24, 2010, in a long-awaited decision that will affect the circumstances under which non-U.S....
New York City Settles 50-Bullet Cop Lawsuit for $7M
Jul 30 2010 // The city of New York has agreed to pay more than $7 million to settle a civil lawsuit stemming from the fatal 50-bullet police shooting of an unarmed man on his wedding day. The settlement filed in Brooklyn federal court...
Survey: Public Opposes Allowing Policyholder Suits Against Insurers
Jul 29 2010 // A majority of Americans believe that laws allowing people to sue their own auto insurance company for punitive damages, in addition to receiving benefits for their insured claim losses, are not a good idea. New public...
Cleveland Loses Appeal of Suit Blaming Wall Street for Foreclosures
Jul 28 2010 // The city of Cleveland lost its appeal Tuesday of a lawsuit accusing 22 Wall Street bank and mortgage lenders of creating a public nuisance by creating risky mortgage securities to be sold to investors. A three-judge panel...
