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Former Employees Sue Oklahoma Trucking Company; File Claims with State
Dec 31 2009 // Former employees of Tulsa, Okla.-based Arrow Trucking Co. have sued the company after it suddenly suspended operations and laid off workers. The federal lawsuit claims Arrow violated laws that govern mass layoffs and...
Ex-Georgia Player’s Injury Insurance Lawsuit Dismissed
Dec 31 2009 // A judge has dismissed a former University of Georgia football player’s lawsuit against the university’s athletic association and one of its former employees. Junior cornerback Decory Bryant’s football...
Washington Man Sues Idaho Over Pothole
Dec 28 2009 // A Spokane, Wash., man has filed a $500,000 lawsuit against the state of Idaho for injuries he says resulted from a crash caused by potholes on Interstate 90 in northern Idaho. Kasey Crick, 22, filed the lawsuit Dec. 18...
Massachusetts AG Sues Agency Accused of Collecting Bogus Fees
Dec 28 2009 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley’s Office has filed a lawsuit against the owners and agents of a Bay State insurance agency, alleging the business pocketed $3.4 million in fees it disguised as insurance...
Massachusetts Woman Sues Nursing Home Where She Worked
Dec 23 2009 // A Northampton woman claims in a lawsuit filed against the Holyoke nursing home where she worked for three years that she was fired for complaining about improper treatment of patients. Joan Johnson is seeking $56,000 in...
Texas Jury Awards BP Workers $100M in Lawsuit
Dec 21 2009 // A federal jury on Dec. 18 awarded more than $100 million to 10 workers who claimed they were injured in 2007 when a toxic substance was released at BP PLC’s Texas City plant. The jurors in Galveston, southeast of...
Key Claim Dismissed in Oklahoma Poultry Litter Lawsuit
Dec 17 2009 // A federal judge has dismissed one of Oklahoma’s key claims in the state’s pollution lawsuit against Arkansas poultry companies. U.S. District Judge Greg Frizzell on Dec. 15 ruled that bird manure isn’t...
Judge to Rule on Virginia Tech Shooting Lawsuits by Jan. 15
Dec 16 2009 // A judge said this week he would rule by Jan. 15 on whether to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the families of two students slain in the mass shootings at Virginia Tech. After hearing arguments, Montgomery County Circuit Court...
Nebraska High Court Says Worker Can Sue for Parking Lot Injury
Dec 14 2009 // A retired Union Pacific conductor can seek compensation for a knee injury because walking into work from the parking lot was part of the conductor’s job, the Nebraska Supreme Court said in a ruling released Dec....
New York Officials Sue Workers’ Compensation Trust Manager CRM
Dec 11 2009 // Insurance administrator CRM Holdings is being sued for $405 million by New York’s workers compensation board and faces a separate $150 million lawsuit by the state attorney general over its alleged fraud in the...
Supreme Court Refuses Michigan Workers’ Comp Racketeering Suit
Dec 10 2009 // Workers’ compensation litigation arising out of Michigan and involving claims of federal racketeering violations is headed back to lower courts for trial after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider it. The U.S....
TV Anchor Appeals Dismissal of Medical Malpractice Suit in Baltimore
Dec 10 2009 // Lawyers for former CBS “Early Show” anchor Mark McEwen have appealed the dismissal of his medical malpractice lawsuit. A federal judge in Baltimore threw out McEwen’s lawsuit earlier this year. The...
March Trial Set for Lawsuit Over Mississippi Dam Break
Dec 9 2009 // A civil lawsuit filed over the damage caused by the 2004 collapse of the Big Bay Lake dam in Lamar County has been moved to Harrison County and set for a March 22 trial. Circuit Court Judge Michael Eubanks granted the...
Virginia Tech Faces $43 Million Lawsuit By Family Over Student’s Suicide
Dec 9 2009 // The family of a Virginia Tech student has filed a $43 million lawsuit, accusing the university of negligence in its response to a warning that their son was suicidal. Daniel Kim committed suicide on Dec. 9, 2007, about a...
Court Hears Copyright Lawsuit Over Baltimore Ravens Old Logo
Dec 8 2009 // The Baltimore Ravens should be barred from selling old game films that show players wearing the NFL team’s original logo, a lawyer for the amateur artist who designed the “Flying B” told a federal appeals...
TV Host Grace Cited in Florida Wrongful Death Suit Over Suicide
Dec 7 2009 // A Harvard professor says CNN Headline News host Nancy Grace’s relentless questioning of a Florida mother three years ago contributed to her suicide, according to a filing in the family’s wrongful death...
Minnesota Woman Sues Cargill for $100M Over E. coli Infection
Dec 7 2009 // A Minnesota woman who became severely ill from an E. coli infection after eating a tainted hamburger has sued a division of agribusiness giant Cargill Inc. for $100 million. Stephanie Smith, 22, of Cold Spring, became ill...
Most Want Congress to Address Cost of Malpractice Lawsuits
Dec 6 2009 // Most Americans want Congress to deal with malpractice lawsuits driving up the cost of medical care, says an Associated Press poll. Yet Democrats are reluctant to press forward on an issue that would upset a valuable...
Ohio AG Sues National Ratings Agencies Over Securities Information
Dec 6 2009 // Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray has filed a lawsuit against national securities and credit ratings agencies Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s and Fitch over what the AG’s office called “false...
Court: Owners of Truck in Fatal Connecticut Crash Can Sue Insurer
Dec 6 2009 // The Connecticut Supreme Court reinstated a lawsuit brought by the owners of a dump truck involved in a fiery crash in Avon in 2005 that killed four people and injured 11 others. In its decision, the high court overturned a...
