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Michigan High Court to Reconsider Auto Accident Victims’ Right to Sue
Sep 7 2009 // The Michigan Supreme Court has set the stage for reversing a 2004 precedent that restricts when people injured in auto accidents can sue for pain and suffering. In a 4-3 order, the court decided to reconsider the case of...
Maryland Grocer to Pay $275K to Settle Gender Suit
Sep 3 2009 // The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says Maryland grocery chain Mars Super Markets will pay $275,000 to settle a gender discrimination lawsuit. The settlement was announced Tuesday. Part-time deli clerk...
Tampa Bay Doctor Wins $10 Million Libel Suit Against Florida Newspaper
Sep 3 2009 // A jury has sided with a Tampa Bay doctor in a libel suit against Times Publishing Co., the parent company of the St. Petersburg Times. The decision calls for Dr. Harold L. Kennedy, former chief of medicine at Bay Pines VA...
Louisiana Insurance Chief Seeks Lawsuit Protection for Citizens
Sep 2 2009 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon says that he’ll support legislation to give the state’s “insurer of last resort” immunity against certain lawsuits, a proposal that could retroactively...
Argus, Tremont Settle Madoff Suits Over Life, Annuity Policies
Sep 1 2009 // Argus Group Holdings Ltd and Tremont International Insurance Ltd have reached a settlement with buyers and holders of life insurance and annuity policies lost in the Bernard Madoff fraud, according to court documents...
Legal Challenges Could Turn Off Florida’s Red Light Cameras
Aug 31 2009 // Last year, Pembroke Pines turned on its first red-light camera. Across South Florida, other cities followed. But now critics — and lawsuits — are questioning whether the cameras pass legal muster. Several...
Missouri Sues Arkansas Insurer
Aug 31 2009 // Missouri insurance regulators have gone to court to stop an Arkansas-based life insurance company from illegally changing the terms of its cancer insurance policies, the Missouri Department of Insurance announced. The DOI...
AIG, Former CEO Greenberg, CFO Smith Agree to Binding Arbitration
Aug 31 2009 // American International Group Inc. and former CEO Maurice “Hank” Greenberg said Monday they have agreed to privately arbitrate a shareholder lawsuit, and possibly another, potentially ending a an extended legal...
Owners of Former Landfill in Pennsylvania Sued for Cleanup
Aug 28 2009 // The state Department of Environmental Protection is suing the owners of a former landfill in western Pennsylvania to recover more than $3 million in hazardous waste cleanup costs. The Boldan Landfill operated in an...
California Insurance Chief Poizner Sues to Block Workers’ Comp Fund Sale
Aug 28 2009 // In a move that was not completely unexpected, California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced that he will file a lawsuit to have the $1 billion sale of State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF) assets declared...
Farm Workers Sue New Mexico for Workers’ Compensation Coverage
Aug 27 2009 // Two organizations that provide services to farm workers and two injured farm workers want the New Mexico Workers’ Compensation Administration to stop excluding farm and ranch workers from coverage. HELP-New Mexico,...
Court: Family Can Sue in Vermont Trooper’s Death
Aug 26 2009 // The family of Vermont State Police Sgt. Michael Johnson can sue the state’s insurance company for as much as $11 million in connection with Johnson’s death during a 2003 car chase. That’s the upshot of a...
Citizens to Pay Class Action Attorneys, Rather than Post Appeal Bond
Aug 25 2009 // Louisiana Citizens Property Corporation will now pay a group of attorneys in a class action lawsuit $6 million in order to go forward with the appeal of a $95 million award against the state backed insurer of last resort...
Discrimination Suit Filed Against Univ. of Iowa Law School
Aug 25 2009 // A Michigan man has filed a lawsuit against the University of Iowa and its College of Law claiming he was the victim of age discrimination. Donald Dobkin, 56, of West Bloomfield, Mich., filed his lawsuit in U.S. District...
Employee Lawsuits Proving Costly for Kentucky Counties, Says Report
Aug 24 2009 // A string of employee terminations by the Kentucky Association of Counties has cost the agency millions of dollars, according to a published report. The Lexington Herald-Leader says documents it obtained show KACo spent a...
Michigan High Court to Reconsider Auto Accident Victims’ Right to Sue
Aug 24 2009 // The Michigan Supreme Court has set the stage for reversing a 2004 precedent that restricts when people injured in auto accidents can sue for pain and suffering. In a 4-3 order, the court decided to reconsider the case of...
Family Sues Pennsylvania Jail over Heroin Withdrawal Death
Aug 24 2009 // An inmate’s surviving family is suing a western Pennsylvania jail saying the man died because his complaints about heroin withdrawal were ignored. The federal lawsuit filed Tuesday in Pittsburgh targets the...
Louisiana Citizens Set to Appeal $95M Judgment; No Assessment Needed
Aug 24 2009 // The Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corporation will file an appeal today of a $95 million award in a class action lawsuit that accused the state-backed property insurer of last resort of taking too long to pay...
Arkansas Panel Rules Jailers Can Be Sued as Individuals
Aug 24 2009 // A federal appeals panel on Aug. 20 upheld a ruling that jailers in Garland County, Ark., can be sued personally for allegedly ignoring a suspected intoxicated driver who didn’t move for hours in his cell and suffered...
15 Years Later, Tobacco Lawsuits Still Winding Through Florida Courts
Aug 21 2009 // Fifteen years after a Miami Beach pediatrician suffering lung disease took on the tobacco giants, thousands of smokers’ lawsuits are working their way through Florida courts and early results encourage both...
