Latest Lawsuits Headlines
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New York Man Sues Bumble Bee Tuna Alleging Mercury Poisoning
Nov 1 2010 // A suburban New York City man has filed a lawsuit that claims he got mercury poisoning from eating 10 cans of tuna a week. Lee Porrazzo, of White Plains, filed the suit against Bumble Bee Foods. He’s asking for...
Judge Schedules Motions in State Farm Whistleblower Suit in MIssissippi
Oct 29 2010 // A federal whistleblower lawsuit filed against State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. will not go to trial Dec. 1 as scheduled. Instead, U.S. District Court Judge L.T. Senter Jr. has decided to hold a status conference on the...
Ex-Marsh Executives, Convictions Tossed, Sue for Bonuses
Oct 28 2010 // Two former Marsh & McLennan Cos. executives, whose criminal convictions in an insurance bid-rigging scheme were thrown out, sued their former employer, accusing it of depriving them of stock bonuses and severance. In a...
Massachusetts Town Settles Discrimination Suit for $1M
Oct 28 2010 // The town of Framingham has agreed to pay $1 million to settle a discrimination lawsuit filed by a social services agency that wanted to open a home for recovering drug addicts in town. The South Middlesex Opportunity...
Mississippi Executive Wins $103 Million in Lawsuit Against Lawyer
Oct 28 2010 // A Mississippi businessman has been awarded $103 million in a lawsuit against the Chicago-based law firm that he accused of defrauding his oil and gas business. Lavon Evans Jr. filed the lawsuit in Jones County Circuit...
Lawsuit Targets Florida’s Citizens Over No-Bid Contracts
Oct 25 2010 // Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp. is facing a class action lawsuit alleging that it improperly awarded dozens of no-bid contracts worth more than $49 million. The lawsuit filed in Tallahassee seeks...
New York AG Sues FedEx Over Independent Contractor Classifications
Oct 25 2010 // New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is suing Federal Express’ ground package delivery unit, alleging its classification of drivers as independent contractors illegally deprives them of legal protections workers...
Workers Injured in Pennsylvania Coke Blast Sue U.S. Steel
Oct 22 2010 // Three men burned in a July explosion at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works have sued claiming the steelmaker’s managers directed them to repair a “live” gas line even after an alarm went off warning...
Group Sues BP for Harm to Endangered Gulf Wildlife
Oct 21 2010 // U.S. environmental groups filed a suit Wednesday against British-based oil giant BP Plc saying the world’s worst offshore spill inflicted “ongoing unlawful” harm on endangered wildlife in the Gulf of...
San Bruno Gas Explosion Victims Begin Filing Lawsuits
Oct 20 2010 // Victims of a deadly gas line explosion that killed eight people and destroyed 37 homes in San Bruno, Calif., in September have begun filing lawsuits against Pacific Gas and Electric Co. Among the plaintiffs is Susan...
New York Man Sues Bumble Bee Tuna Alleging Mercury Poisoning
Oct 20 2010 // A suburban New York City man has filed a lawsuit that claims he got mercury poisoning from eating 10 cans of tuna a week. Lee Porrazzo, of White Plains, filed the suit against Bumble Bee Foods. He’s asking for...
New Orleans Jury Awards $650K in Katrina Jail Lawsuit
Oct 19 2010 // A federal jury has awarded more than $650,000 to two Ohio tourists who were arrested in New Orleans, La., on public drunkenness charges two days before Hurricane Katrina and jailed for more than a month in the...
Connecticut High School Ex-Sprinter Settles $325K Suit Against Town
Oct 18 2010 // A former student at East Lyme High School in Connecticut who needed emergency brain surgery after crashing into a cement wall during indoor track practice has settled a lawsuit against the town for $325,000. Nicholas...
Tort Reform Takes Back Seat in Alabama’s Race for Governor
Oct 18 2010 // Huge jury verdicts, once potent political issues in a state known as “tort hell,” are getting little mention in this year’s race for Alabama governor. Dr. Robert Bentley, the Republican nominee, has...
Most 9/11 Responders OK Settlement Resolving Suit
Oct 18 2010 // A lawyer representing 10,000 ground zero workers suing New York City over their exposure to World Trade Center dust said earlier this month that 75 percent have signed a settlement resolving their claims and most of the...
Court: Michigan Workers’ Comp Law Blocks Anti-Racketeering Suit
Oct 18 2010 // Michigan’s workers’ compensation statute blocks employee lawsuits against employers brought under federal anti-racketeering law, a federal judge has ruled. Federal Judge Paul D. Boren for the second time has...
Florida Court Permits Bad Faith Lawsuit Against Citizens to Proceed
Oct 18 2010 // A lawsuit alleging bad faith claims handling by Florida’s state-created insurer, Citizens, will proceed to trial over the objection of the insurer that it is protected against such suits by immunity granted...
Zurich Settles Class Action Lawsuit for $455M Over Insurance Exchanges
Oct 18 2010 // Zurich Financial Services Group and its subsidiary, Farmers Group Inc. (FGI), have settled for $455 million a nationwide class action lawsuit that is pending in Superior Court in Los Angeles. The settlement money will be...
Layoffs Don’t Have to Mean Lawsuits
Oct 18 2010 // The difficult economic conditions of the past few years are on top of most people’s minds. Challenging economic circumstances are adversely impacting individuals and proving destructive to public entities. The weak...
Securities Lawsuits Continue High Pace Despite Easing of Financial Crisis
Oct 15 2010 // New securities lawsuits sparked by the credit crisis have all but disappeared, but the pace of securities lawsuit filings in the third quarter continued at elevated credit crisis-like levels. With 284 suits filed in the...
