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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...
Kansas University Research Center Sues National Institutes of Health
Nov 25 2008 // The University of Kansas Center for Research has filed a federal lawsuit claiming that two of its researchers should be listed on patents for a cancer drug. The research center sued the National Institutes of Health...
Quadruple Amputee in NYC Plans $100M Lawsuit against City
Nov 24 2008 // A mother of three says a Brooklyn hospital and ambulance workers didn’t properly treat a potentially deadly bacterial infection that left her legally blind and a quadruple amputee. Tabitha Mullings filed notice...
Former North Carolina TV Anchor Settles Wrongful Death Suit
Nov 21 2008 // A former North Carolina television news anchor has reached a settlement in a wrongful-death lawsuit involving the family of a man he ran over and killed while driving drunk. The Winston-Salem Journal reported that the...
Lloyd’s and Rand Issue New Report on ‘Transatlantic Litigation Trends’
Nov 19 2008 // Lloyd’s and RAND have issued a new report on transatlantic litigation trends. The spread of what Lloyd’s Chairman Lord Peter Levene has called the “compensation culture,” is becoming an increasing...
Hartford Casualty Insurance Tries to Duck Crandall Canyon Lawsuits
Nov 18 2008 // An insurance company doesn’t want to pay for any civil damages resulting from the collapse at Crandall Canyon in Utah that killed six coal miners and some of the rescuers who tried to save them. Hartford Casualty...
Four Victims Sue Consulting Firm in Minnesota 35W Bridge Collapse
Nov 18 2008 // Four victims of the Minneapolis bridge collapse are suing the consulting firm that evaluated the Interstate 35W bridge and the contracting company that was repaving the structure when it fell. Minneapolis attorney Jim...
Wis. Northwestern Mutual Agrees to Settle Lawsuit up to $92 Million
Nov 17 2008 // Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit for up to $92 million. The lawsuit accused Northwestern Mutual of failing to pay dividends on certain term life policies and using improper...
Brooke Corp. Troubles Continue as Stock is Sold
Nov 16 2008 // Kansas Franchise Group Faces Lawsuits in Multiple States Amid the flurry of lawsuits leveled by franchisees, now an Illinois company connected to a bank involved in the lawsuit of the parent company of Brooke Corp. has...
Lawsuit Claims Discrimination in Katrina Recovery
Nov 14 2008 // A group of civil rights attorneys filed a federal lawsuit claiming racial discrimination by the Louisiana Road Home program, an already troubled $10.3 billion effort designed to help Hurricane Katrina victims rebuild their...
Crash Victim’s Widow Sues New Jersey Truck Driver
Nov 10 2008 // A Vermont woman whose husband died when a tractor-trailer slammed into two vehicles is suing the driver for negligence. Forty-two-year-old Kenneth A. Middlebusher, of Deptford, N.J., is charged with gross negligent...
Judge Approves Settlement in InfoGroup Shareholder Lawsuit
Nov 10 2008 // A Delaware judge has approved a settlement in a shareholder lawsuit brought against database provider InfoGroup Inc. over abusive personal spending by founder Vinod Gupta. The settlement approved by Chancellor William...
