Latest Lawsuits Headlines
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Supreme Court Allows State Suits Over ‘Light’ Cigarettes to Go Forward
Dec 17 2008 // The U.S. Supreme Court this week handed a surprising defeat to tobacco companies counting on it to put an end to lawsuits alleging deceptive marketing of “light” cigarettes. In a 5-4 split won by the...
Michigan Man Files Suit to Stop AIG Bailout on Religious Grounds
Dec 17 2008 // A Michigan man is challenging the government’s bailout of American International Group Inc., claiming the move is illegal because the insurer has financial products that promote Islam and are anti-Christian. The...
Equipment Makers Not Liable in Two Asbestos Lawsuits
Dec 16 2008 // In separate cases dealing with asbestos-related illness, the Washington Supreme Court ruled that a manufacturer can’t be held liable for failing to warn about the hazards of someone else’s product. The cases...
Lawsuit Seeks to Stop U.S. Bailout of AIG as Anti-Christian, Anti-U.S.
Dec 16 2008 // A Michigan–based Christian rights group has filed suit against the federal government claiming the government’s loan to insurance giant American International Group (AIG) is illegal because AIG has financial...
Pennsylvania Hospitals, Docs Sue over Malpractice Fund
Dec 15 2008 // Pennsylvania hospitals and doctors are suing the state to obtain hundreds of millions in unspent dollars they say should be devoted to a state fund that helps doctors pay for medical malpractice insurance. Industry...
Construction Worker’s Widow Sues Over Louisiana Bridge Accident
Dec 15 2008 // The widow of a construction foreman who died in October after he and nine other workers fell from the bridge they were building filed a lawsuit against the state of Louisiana and two companies involved in the project. The...
Massachusetts Doctors’ Group Seeks Dismissal of Lawsuit
Dec 12 2008 // A Brockton, Massachusetts-area medical group and four doctors being sued by the widow of a man struck and killed by a patient has asked that the suit be dismissed. Compass Medical and the doctors are accused by Kathleen...
Mississippi Katrina Suit Challenges Funds for Port Instead of Homes
Dec 12 2008 // Housing advocates and low-income residents sued this week to stop Mississippi from spending a half-billion federal dollars to expand a damaged port rather than replace homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. The Mississippi...
Judge: Class-Action Against Toy Makers Can Proceed
Dec 11 2008 // A judge has ruled that Mattel, Wal-Mart and others can still be sued for making and selling toys with high lead levels, even though the companies offered safer replacements after a recall. Judge Dale Fischer filed the...
Nebraska Businessman Accused of Fraud Sues Insurance Company
Dec 10 2008 // An Omaha, Neb. businessman who’s facing several lawsuits accusing him of fraud has filed his own lawsuit. Bryan Behrens is suing Kansas City, Mo.-based Arch Insurance Co. saying it’s responsible for his defense...
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...
