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Lawsuit Claims Ala.-Based Insurance Co. Discriminated Against Haitians
Jan 25 2008 // Three Florida residents have sued Alabama-based Liberty National Life Insurance Co. claiming their insurance was canceled or undervalued because of discrimination against Haitian-Americans. The new class-action lawsuit was...
Wis. Proposal Would Expand Malpractice Suits to Parents of Adults
Jan 24 2008 // A bill passed by the Wisconsin Senate would give parents of adult children who die as a result of medical malpractice the ability to file lawsuits. Right now, parents of adult children in Wisconsin can’t sue for...
Supreme Court Turns Away Suit Against Banks by Enron Investors
Jan 23 2008 // Following up on its Stoneridge ruling on Tuesday in which it limited investor lawsuits, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a bid by former Enron investors to recover as much as $40 billion from investment banks associated...
Feds Agree to $750,000 Payment in Florida Malpractice Suit
Jan 21 2008 // The U.S. government will pay $750,000 to settle a medical malpractice lawsuit brought by the family of a Florida woman who died after eight surgeries in just over a month in 2005. Betty Jean Plato, 76, arrived with stomach...
Miss. Judge Removes Himself from Cases Amid Federal Probe
Jan 21 2008 // A Mississippi judge says he disqualified himself from hearing several lawsuits because federal authorities were investigating allegations that powerful plaintiffs attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs tried to...
Supreme Court Stoneridge Ruling Adds to Setbacks for U.S. Investors
Jan 18 2008 // U.S. investors are heading into 2008 stung by a series of legal and regulatory setbacks, analysts say, with the latest the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Stoneridge case protecting businesses from securities-fraud...
W. Va.: St. Paul Travelers Settles Wrongful Firing Lawsuit
Jan 17 2008 // In Charleston, W. Va., Kanawha County’s insurer has settled a wrongful-termination lawsuit filed by three former investigators who were fired by former Prosecutor Bill Charnock. St. Paul Travelers agreed Monday to...
Advisen: Subprime Writedowns Trigger Avalanche of Lawsuits
Jan 15 2008 // More than $170 billion has evaporated from the balance sheets of companies around the world as the result of the meltdown of the U.S. subprime mortgage market, reports Advisen Ltd., a provider of technology and data to the...
Supreme Court Limits Investors’ Securities Lawsuits
Jan 15 2008 // In a decision sought by corporate America to stem the tide of securities lawsuits, the U.S. Supreme Court today pulled the plug on investors trying to sue some suppliers of a company whose stock price was inflated with the...
Ariz. Court Goes Against State Farm in Uninsured Motorist Case
Jan 15 2008 // An Arizona Supreme Court ruling issued late last week blocks insurance companies from lowering underinsured motorist payments to injured people who have received workers’ compensation. The ruling against Bloomington,...
Another Class-Action Lawsuit Filed over Fernley Flood
Jan 14 2008 // Three law firms have filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of victims of the Fernley flood — the second such complaint in two days. In their suit filed in Lyon County District Court in Yerington, Nev. the Reno firms...
Fla. Gov. Crist Weighs Suing Property Insurers Over Rates
Jan 13 2008 // Gov. Charlie Crist has asked three trial lawyers to review documents for a possible class-action lawsuit against property insurers, alleging that the industry hasn’t passed on savings to consumers as required by...
Subprime Contagion: Where Will the Litigation Wave Spread Next?
Jan 13 2008 // The subprime mortgage meltdown has been a leading story on the front pages of newspapers around the country for the past few months. The uproar also has led to a flood of new lawsuits and to concerns about how much further...
Household Employee Exposure an Opportunity to Go Beyond Typical Sale
Jan 13 2008 // Homeowners may be at risk when employing housekeepers, maids, cooks, babysitters and other domestic employees We want to trust those whom we hire to work in our homes. Who prepare our meals. Clean our treasured...
Lawsuit: N.Y. Patient Mistakenly Got HIV Medication
Jan 11 2008 // A liver transplant patient has sued New York University Medical Center for $2 million, claiming the hospital’s pharmacy gave him medicine for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, when he tried to fill a prescription for...
Tenn. Supreme Court to Decide Alcoa Asbestos Suit
Jan 11 2008 // The Tennessee Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a case that will decide whether Alcoa Inc. is responsible for the asbestos-related death of a former worker’s daughter. The Pittsburgh-based company argues that...
Family of Ore. Girl Injured by Lawnmower Files Suit
Jan 11 2008 // The family of 4-year-old Isabelle Norton seeks more than $8.5 million from the company that manufactured the riding mower that backed over her leg, causing it to be amputated. Norton’s father, Kirk, was mowing the...
First Cancer Lawsuit Related to Texas Railroad Tie Plant Begins
Jan 10 2008 // Owners of a Texas plant that makes railroad ties were grossly negligent in failing to provide safety equipment for workers handling toxic chemicals, a pollution prevention expert testified in the first of a flurry of...
Kan. Jury Sides with Oil Company in Pollution Lawsuit
Jan 9 2008 // Jurors sided with oil giant BP Corp. North America Inc. Monday in a pollution lawsuit filed by the city of Neodesha seeking to recover the costs of cleanup and damages caused by an oil refinery. Jurors hearing the case in...
Environmental Groups sue Shell for Excess Pollution at Texas Refinery
Jan 9 2008 // Environmental groups have sued Shell Oil Co. and several of its affiliates, claiming the oil giant has for years released pollutants from its suburban Houston refinery that are well above state and federal limits. In their...
