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$90 Million Lawsuit Filed in Tennessee Fire that Killed 7
Oct 20 2008 // Survivors of the seven people killed in an August fire in Memphis, Tenn. have filed a lawsuit seeking $90 million. The Commercial Appeal reported the lawsuit filed in Circuit Court claims electrical problems at the rental...
Louisiana Citizens Settles Policyholder Lawsuits for $35 Million
Oct 17 2008 // Louisiana’s state-run insurer of last resort has reached a $35 million agreement with policyholders to resolve claims that the insurer failed to offer settlements for hurricane claims in a timely fashion after...
Drug Manufacturer Pfizer to Pay $894 Million to Settle Lawsuits
Oct 17 2008 // Pfizer Inc said Friday it plans to pay $894 million to settle lawsuits alleging that its withdrawn Bextra painkiller and widely used Celebrex arthritis drug harmed U.S. patients and defrauded consumers. Pfizer said the...
Maryland Navy Commander Sued over Funds for 9/11 Injury
Oct 16 2008 // Federal prosecutors have filed a civil lawsuit against a Navy commander from Maryland’s Anne Arundel County who was granted a Purple Heart for injuries he claimed to have suffered when a plane crashed into the...
E-Mail Retention System Under Fire in Lawsuit Against Mo. Governor
Oct 13 2008 // Missourians may never know whether employees of Gov. Matt Blunt, or in any other state office, wrongly deleted government e-mails. Depositions in a lawsuit against Blunt reveal that the state’s backup e-mail system...
$90 Million Lawsuit Filed in Tennessee Fire that Killed 7
Oct 13 2008 // Survivors of seven people killed in an August fire in Memphis, Tenn. filed a lawsuit seeking $90 million. The Commercial Appeal reported the lawsuit filed in Circuit Court claims electrical problems at the rental property...
Connecticut Blonde Sues over Brown Dye; Judge Brushes Off Suit
Oct 9 2008 // A Connecticut judge has given the brush-off to a blonde woman’s lawsuit claiming L’Oreal Inc. ruined her social life when she accidentally dyed her hair brunette with one of its products. Charlotte Feeney says...
Judge Rules in Michigan Lawsuit Against Blue Cross
Oct 9 2008 // An Ingham County judge has ruled for and against Blue Cross Blue Shield in its defense against a state lawsuit accusing the insurer of illegally shifting money to help buy three workers’ compensation...
Former Navy Technician Sues Virginia Gym over Workout
Oct 8 2008 // A former Navy information systems technician is suing a Manassas, Virginia gym over an exercise program that he says left him permanently disabled. Makimba Mimms, of Bristow, says the CrossFit workout he did in 2005 caused...
Cap Reduces $1.85M Jury Award in Maryland Discrimination Suit
Oct 8 2008 // A Salisbury, Maryland woman who was awarded $1.85 million after she was fired by a pesticide company will see only $300,000 of that. That’s because of a limit on damages in federal employment discrimination cases. A...
Wachovia, Citi, Wells Fargo to Halt Litigation
Oct 6 2008 // Wells Fargo & Co. and Citigroup Inc. agreed Monday to a 44-hour truce in their fight over regional bank Wachovia Corp. after a weekend of legal wrangling. Wells Fargo and Citigroup have been battling over the bank...
As Financial Crisis Continues, Blame Game and Lawsuits to Begin
Oct 3 2008 // Now that the dust has begun to settle on the financial crisis and Congress continues to work on a bailout plan, it is time to begin playing “the blame game,” says Scott A. Meyers, a partner in the litigation...
Brooke Corp. Faces Lawsuits by Illinois and New York Banks
Oct 3 2008 // Overland Park, Kansas-based Brooke Corp. faces a lawsuit by a bank that is seeking $13 million plus interest and costs for breach of contract. The suit was filed the last week in September 2008 in federal court in Illinois...
Big Dig Tunnel Victim’s Family Settles Lawsuit for $28 Million
Oct 2 2008 // The family of a Costa Rican woman killed when the ceiling of a downtown Boston tunnel collapsed has settled a wrongful death lawsuit for more than $28 million, attorneys told The Associated Press. The settlement was...
Insurer Says No to Covering School District Sexual Abuse Lawsuit
Oct 1 2008 // The insurer of the Unit 5 school district in Urbana, Ill. is balking at providing coverage in connection with a sexual abuse lawsuit. Cincinnati Insurance contends in a federal lawsuit that an Urbana student identified as...
Protestor at GOP Convention to File Brutality Lawsuit
Sep 29 2008 // An anti-war protester who claims he was shot with a police projectile at close range during the Republican National Convention in St. Paul announced on September 26 that he is planning to sue the city of St. Paul and...
U.S. Court Sides with Bank to Stop Mortgage Loan Class Action
Sep 26 2008 // A lawsuit brought by a Wisconsin couple who accused a bank of deceptive lending practices and wanted to cancel their home loan has been stripped of class-action status in a victory for U.S. banks. In a 2-to-1 decision, a...
Marsh Notes Increase in UK Class Actions Spurs Coverage Demands
Sep 23 2008 // A combination of “class action contagion from the US and growing economic uncertainly have spurred an unprecedented surge in the demand for management liability insurance among the UK’s top firms,”...
Lawsuit: Transit Firm Failed to Give Proper Breaks
Sep 22 2008 // The company that employed the engineer blamed for the deadly Metrolink train collision faces a class-action lawsuit by two of its workers for allegedly not giving employees proper rest breaks, overtime and other...
U.S. Subprime Lawsuits Outpace S&L Cases, Study Finds
Sep 22 2008 // The U.S. subprime-mortgage crisis has now spurred more federal lawsuits than the savings and loan debacle of the late 1980s and early 1990s ever did, according to new data released this month. The number of new...
