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Father of Ex.-Governor Spitzer Loses $1.3M Bias Suit
Dec 9 2008 // A Bronx jury has ordered Eliot Spitzer’s father to pay more than $1.3 million in an employment discrimination case. A former doorman and three former porters in an apartment building owned by 84-year-old Bernard...
Connecticut Town Settles Lawsuit over Suspect’s Death
Dec 8 2008 // The city of West Haven, Connecticut has agreed to pay nearly $400,000 to the family of a man who was killed on Interstate 95 while running from police. The family of 18-year-old Gary “Chris” Tyson had accused...
Tennessee Motel Sued for $100M in Death of Alabama Woman
Dec 8 2008 // The parents of a former north Alabama high school homecoming queen have filed a lawsuit seeking $100 million against the motel in Knoxville where she was killed, allegedly by a motel employee. Cynthia Senn and Michael...
California Sues Utility Over 2006 Ventura County Wildfire
Dec 8 2008 // California is suing Southern California Edison and two property owners to recover the $7.4 million spent to fight a 2006 wildfire that burned five homes. The attorney general filed the negligence suit late November in...
Pennsylvania Mother Sues Crocs over Son’s Escalator Injury
Dec 8 2008 // A Pennsylvania woman is suing Crocs Inc. after her 6-year-old son’s foam clog got stuck in an escalator at the National Aquarium in Baltimore in April, injuring his toe. Kerry Burdick of Eagleville, Pa., claims...
Kentucky County’s Insurer Pays $2.1 Million to Settle Crash Suit
Dec 8 2008 // Garrard County’s insurance company has paid $2.1 million to the estate of a central Kentucky man killed in a fiery car crash involving a former a county employee. The Advocate-Messenger reports the lawsuit was filed...
Toy Makers Settle Lead-Contaminated Toy Lawsuit
Dec 5 2008 // California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. and Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo have reached a settlement with Mattel Inc. and several other toy makers that will “safeguard California’s...
Agents Speak Out on ‘Putting Back the Pieces’ after Brooke
Dec 4 2008 // “Technically, Brooke Franchise owes me $7 million, but who knows if I will ever see it,” said Roger Cunningham, former Brooke franchisee and agent/owner of RKC Financial in the Dallas/Fort Worth Texas,...
Florida Woman’s Lawsuit Against Tobacco Company Goes to Trial
Dec 4 2008 // Opening statements are scheduled to begin this week in a trial against a tobacco company by the wife of a Florida smoker who died of lung cancer. It’s the first trial since the state Supreme Court threw out a $145...
Philadelphia Food Workers Claim Bias, Sue for $200M
Dec 3 2008 // Black cafeteria workers at Philadelphia’s newest skyscraper claim in a $200 million lawsuit that they have endured racist remarks, job discrimination and retaliatory firings. Eleven plaintiffs filed the federal suit...
Financial Firms Sign Pact to Bar Lawsuits Over Employee Poaching
Dec 3 2008 // It’s getting easier for restless financial advisers to jump ship. Independent advisory firms are rushing to sign an agreement that bars lawsuits between signatories that hire away each other’s brokers. Almost...
Agents Speak Out on ‘Putting Back the Pieces’ After Brooke
Nov 30 2008 // Brooke Group Declares Bankruptcy, Faces Rico Charges, More Lawsuits Technically, Brooke Franchise owes me $7 million, but who knows if I will ever see it,” said Roger Cunningham, former Brooke franchisee and...
D&O Insurance Marketplace Entering a Transitional Phase
Nov 30 2008 // As Credit Crisis Ripples Through Economy, Competitive Conditions Could Be Shifting The growing wave of subprime-related litigation is among the many side effects of the subprime mortgage meltdown. The litigation wave has...
Agents ‘Putting Back the Pieces’ After Brooke
Nov 30 2008 // Brooke Group Declares Bankruptcy, Faces More Lawsuits Technically, Brooke Franchise owes me $7 million, but who knows if I will ever see it,” says Roger Cunningham, former Brooke franchisee and agent/owner of RKC...
Estimating the Credit Crisis Insurance Losses
Nov 30 2008 // On Nov. 5, 2008, the insurance information firm Advisen issued an updated forecast of insurance losses likely to arise from the credit crisis. Advisen is now estimating aggregate directors and officers, and errors and...
Estimating the Credit Crisis Insurance Losses
Nov 30 2008 // On Nov. 5, 2008, the insurance information firm Advisen issued an updated forecast of insurance losses likely to arise from the credit crisis. Advisen is now estimating aggregate directors and officers, and errors and...
Time to Sue
Nov 30 2008 // Contractual Limitations Provisions in Insurance Policies: What Every Agent and Broker Needs to Know Generally, the statute of limitations for the breach of an oral agreement is four years. However, a shorter period is...
Court Lets Kentucky Sex Abuse Case Against Vatican Proceed
Nov 26 2008 // A lawsuit against the Vatican alleging top church officials should have warned the public or authorities of known or suspected sexual abuse of children by priests here can go ahead, a federal appeals court in Kentucky...
Vegas Police Officers Sue Makers of Taser Weapons
Nov 25 2008 // Two Las Vegas police officers who were seriously hurt after being shocked by Taser weapons in 2003 have sued its makers, saying the company failed to properly warn the department about the potential for injury. About a...
Thumbs Down on Late Malpractice Suit, West Virigina Court Rules
Nov 25 2008 // The West Virginia Supreme Court says a man who found a piece of scalpel in his thumb can’t press his claim because he waited too long to file his lawsuit. In a 4-1 ruling, the high court said Paul and Melissa Forshey...
