Latest Lawsuits Headlines
All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
New Orleans Hospital Settles Post-Katrina Wrongful Death Lawsuit
Jan 28 2010 // Pendleton Memorial Methodist Hospital in New Orleans and its corporate parent have settled a wrongful-death lawsuit brought by the family of a 73-year-old woman who died after Hurricane Katrina left the hospital without...
Couple Sues Massachusetts Hospital over Death of Children
Jan 27 2010 // The parents of two children whose aunt carried them onto a highway where all three were struck and killed, have sued a psychiatric hospital for allegedly failing to properly treat the woman’s mental illness. Ken and...
Alabama Motel Owner Sued Over Fire Deaths
Jan 27 2010 // A wrongful death lawsuit contends a Hoover motel owner and maintenance man are to blame for the deaths of four Mississippi college students in a fire earlier this month. The lawsuit, filed in Jefferson County Circuit Court...
Florida Hospitals Must Warn Patients About Limits Imposed on Lawsuits
Jan 24 2010 // The Florida Supreme Court says hospitals must warn patients about a state law that bars malpractice lawsuits for birth-related neurological injuries. The justices this month ruled hospitals that fail to do so can then be...
Insurers Group Sues State of New York
Jan 24 2010 // A trade group for insurers in New York is suing the state, claiming lawmakers are illegally using assessments paid by insurers to fund unrelated state activities. At issue is the state’s use of the so-called...
Judge OKs Long Island Class Action Suit
Jan 24 2010 // A New York judge has given a green light to a class action suit filed by a group of Long Island homeowners worried about toxic leaks from Brookhaven National Laboratory. The leaks were first reported in the mid-1990s and...
Securities Lawsuit Filings Decline in 2009
Jan 24 2010 // What a difference a year makes. Just 12 months ago, the subprime and credit crisis litigation wave was in full spate, and the onslaught of Madoff and other Ponzi scheme lawsuits had just begun to surge. While both of those...
Lawsuit Claims Arkansas DMV Database Used for Marketing
Jan 22 2010 // A federal lawsuit filed in the Texarkana Division of the Western District of Arkansas claims the Arkansas Department of Motor Vehicle database has been illegally used for marketing and it could affect anyone who has had an...
Vermont Supreme Court: Landowner Can Sue Mine President
Jan 20 2010 // The Vermont Supreme Court says a landowner can sue the president of the Vermont Asbestos Group over contamination on property next to a former asbestos mine in Eden and Lowell. The Supreme Court has overruled a lower...
Florida Hospitals Must Tell Patients of Lawsuit Limits
Jan 20 2010 // The Florida Supreme Court says hospitals must warn patients about a state law that bars malpractice lawsuits for birth-related neurological injuries. The justices last week ruled hospitals that fail to do so can then be...
Missouri Supreme Court Hears Challenge to Malpractice Limits
Jan 19 2010 // Missouri’s top judges questioned Jan. 14 whether a 2005 law limiting medical malpractice lawsuits is being wrongly applied to people retroactively and is discriminating against the spouses of those injured. Attorneys...
Entergy, Insurers File Second Suit Against Corps Over Katrina Flooding
Jan 19 2010 // Entergy Corp. has filed a second suit against the Army Corps of Engineers over flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina, leaving behind hundreds of millions of dollars to power systems and higher rates for hundreds of...
New Orleans-based Insurance Litigation Firm Names New Directors
Jan 19 2010 // Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith PLC (GJTBS), a New Orleans-based firm that has a specialty in insurance litigation, announced that Billy Swaim, James Bailey and Mike Lonegrass have been promoted to company...
Louisiana AG Sues Chinese Drywall Manufacturers and Distributors
Jan 14 2010 // Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell filed suit in Orleans Parish against multiple Knauf entities, other international and domestic manufacturers, distributors, importers of alleged toxic Chinese drywall. Several...
Insurers Group Sues State of New York
Jan 14 2010 // A trade group for insurers in New York is suing the state, claiming lawmakers are illegally using assessments paid by insurers to fund unrelated state activities. At issue is the state’s use of the so-called...
Louisiana Files Suit Against Surety Bond Insurer with Texas Ties
Jan 10 2010 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance filed a lawsuit in late December 2009 against Infinity Surety of Louisiana Inc., Infinity Surety Agency LLC and George D. Black (collectively, Infinity Surety) alleging the firm has...
Group Sues for Records Proving Post-Madoff Reforms at SEC
Jan 8 2010 // A legal watchdog group has asked a court to order U.S. securities regulators to cough up records showing they implemented promised reforms following their failure to detect Bernard Madoff’s massive Ponzi scheme. In a...
Woman Sues New York City Gym over Pole-Dancing Class Injury
Jan 8 2010 // A woman says a Manhattan gym left her hanging when she tried a new workout: pole-dancing. Sue Ann Wee filed a lawsuit last week against the companies that run the Crunch fitness center chain. Lawyer Nicholas Warywoda says...
Chinese Drywall Lawsuit Filed in Louisiana but Most Claims Are in Florida
Jan 7 2010 // On Jan. 6, the WCI Chinese Drywall Trust, an entity formed in bankruptcy proceedings of residential homebuilder WCI Communities Inc., announced it had filed suit against 14 insurance companies seeking indemnification for...
Montana Court Upholds Notice Rule in Lawsuits Against Bars
Jan 7 2010 // A sharply divided Montana Supreme Court has upheld a state law that requires someone planning to sue a bar over liability in a drunken driving crash to notify the bar within 180 days of the crash. The Supreme Court issued...
