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Former Louisiana AG’s Katrina Lawsuit Stays in Federal Court
Aug 4 2008 // Former Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti’s lawsuit contending major insurance companies manipulated prices on hurricane damage claims will remain in federal court, a panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of...
LIU Creates D&O Coverage to Protect Against Global Warming Litigation
Jul 31 2008 // Liberty International Underwriters, a part of Liberty Mutual Group, has created Private Advantage Company Combo policy to provide broad private company management coverage for directors and officers, employment practices...
Survey: Private Firms More Exposed to Liability Risks, But Less Protected
Jul 30 2008 // More than one-third of U.S. businesses do not purchase any type of management or professional liability insurance. Yet, two out of three U.S. private companies have experienced some type of event related to management or...
Former S.D. Teacher and Coach Wants School’s Coverage for Legal Bills
Jul 28 2008 // Former South Dakota teacher and coach Andy Tate wants the Mitchell School District’s insurance to cover the $25,000 in legal bills he spent to defend himself in a lawsuit brought by a former student. Brittany Plamp...
Oakland Files Lawsuit Against Muni Bond Insurers
Jul 28 2008 // Oakland, Calif.’s city attorney said Friday he will file a lawsuit claiming municipal bond insurers duped the city into buying bond insurance despite risks the guarantors faced to their triple-A ratings from insuring...
Amerigroup Settles Discrimination Lawsuit for $234 Million
Jul 24 2008 // Insurance company Amerigroup Corp. said on Jul 22 that it has agreed in principle to settle for $234 million a lawsuit accusing it of discriminating against pregnant women and other high-risk patients. The settlement...
California Jury Finds Johnson & Johnson Not Liable in Motrin Suit
Jul 21 2008 // Johnson & Johnson last Thursday won a lawsuit brought by the family of an 11-year-old girl who became blind after using the drug Children’s Motrin in 2003. The painkiller is made by Johnson &...
Former Louisiana AG’s Katrina Lawsuit Stays in Federal Court
Jul 21 2008 // A former Louisiana attorney general’s lawsuit that contends major insurance companies manipulated prices on hurricane damage claims will remain in federal court, an appeals court ruled. In a 2-1 decision, a panel of...
Billings Could Owe $1M After Discrimination Suit
Jul 18 2008 // The city of Billings, Mont., may end up paying more than $1 million after a jury sided with a police officer in a discrimination lawsuit. The jury awarded officer Steve Feuerstein $1.3 million in July 2007. Now,...
N.Y. Health Insurer Sued Over Coverage for Same-Sex Spouse
Jul 17 2008 // The New York Civil Liberties Union is suing a western New York health insurer accused of refusing to cover the same-sex spouse of a policy holder. A suit filed in state Supreme Court in Buffalo says Blue Cross and Blue...
Florida Air Controllers File Injury Reports, 5 Sue over Chemical Exposure
Jul 17 2008 // Five Florida air traffic controllers are suing roofing contractors claiming they lost their jobs after being unable to work because of toxic chemical exposure. The five employees, Barbara Cooper, Shawn Fields, Dan Kersh,...
Appeals Court Dismisses Nebraska Crop Insurance Company’s Lawsuit
Jul 17 2008 // A federal appeals court has dismissed the remaining portions of a lawsuit filed by a Nebraska crop insurance company against the Federal Crop Insurance Corp. American Growers Insurance Co. filed a lawsuit against FCIC in...
Blogs Can Get Insurance Clients ‘SLAPP’ed!
Jul 14 2008 // A Dade County, Florida real estate developer in January 2008 filed a $25 million lawsuit against a real estate blogger alleging, among other charges, defamation of character based on the blogger’s opinion published...
Credit Rating Agencies Fending Off Lawsuits from Subprime Meltdown
Jul 14 2008 // Battered by critics who blame them for helping to foment the U.S. subprime mortgage meltdown, credit raters are now trying to fend off lawsuits — including fraud claims brought by their own shareholders. Many...
Delta Dismissed from Fatal 2006 Kentucky Plane Crash Lawsuits
Jul 11 2008 // A federal judge dismissed Delta Air Lines Inc. from more than 19 pending lawsuits involving a plane crash in Kentucky that killed 49 people two years ago. U.S. District Judge Karl Forester said in a 13-page opinion that no...
St. Louis University to Pay $1M Lawsuit Settlement
Jul 10 2008 // St. Louis University agreed to pay $1 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit claiming its School of Public Health tried to defraud the government by overstating faculty time spent on projects involving federal grants,...
New Jersey Agents Applaud Broker Duty of Care Ruling in Hull Suit
Jul 9 2008 // Agents’ trade groups in New Jersey are praising a recent Garden State court decision that limits an agent’s duty of care when a client misrepresents himself. The ruling stems from a suit brought by Harbor...
California AG Sues Cement Plant for Hexavalent Chromium Exposure
Jul 8 2008 // California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. and District Attorney Rod Pacheco sued TXI International, a Riverside, Calif.-based cement plant, for exposing people to the potent carcinogen hexavalent chromium without...
U.S. Supreme Court Seen Siding with Business on Key Issues
Jul 8 2008 // The Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has carved out a reputation for pro-business rulings in a series of important decisions. In its recently ended term, the high court threw out the largest punitive damages...
West Virginia Court Revives 2001 Flood Lawsuits Against Loggers
Jul 3 2008 // The West Virginia Supreme Court has revived a pair of lawsuits seeking damages from timber, mining and land companies for devastating 2001 floods. The court reinstated a 2006 jury verdict that improper logging practices...
