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Conn. AG Alleges Reinsurance Antitrust Conspiracy Drives Up Consumer Prices
Oct 9 2007 // A lawsuit against a major reinsurance broker for alleged antitrust activity in Connecticut is being used to raise broader questions about the largely unregulated reinsurance business. Connecticut Attorney General Richard...
Calif. Supreme Court qualifies enforcement of class action waivers
Oct 8 2007 // The California Supreme Court has ruled that class action waivers in arbitration agreements are unenforceable if a court determines “that a class arbitration would be a significantly more effective way of vindicating...
Former franchisees challenge Brooke agent dealings
Oct 8 2007 // Overland Park, Kan.-based insurance agency franchisor Brooke Corp. has been hit with a number of lawsuits that raise questions about its business dealings with agents who bought into its nationwide operation, which now...
Former franchisees challenge Brooke agent dealings
Oct 8 2007 // Overland Park, Kan.-based insurance agency franchisor Brooke Corp. has been hit with a number of lawsuits that raise questions about its business dealings with agents who bought into its nationwide operation, which now...
Former franchisees challenge Brooke agent dealings
Oct 8 2007 // Overland Park, Kan.-based insurance agency franchisor Brooke Corp. has been hit with a number of lawsuits that raise questions about its business dealings with agents who bought into its nationwide operation, which now...
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Oct 8 2007 // Former franchisees challenge Brooke agent dealings But fast-growing franchisor denies misleading any agents Overland Park, Kan.-based insurance agency franchisor Brooke Corp. has been hit with a number of lawsuits that...
News Currents
Oct 8 2007 // Former franchisees challenge Brooke agent dealings But fast-growing franchisor denies misleading any agents Overland Park, Kan.-based insurance agency franchisor Brooke Corp. has been hit with a number of lawsuits that...
Former franchisees challenge Brooke agent dealings
Oct 8 2007 // Overland Park, Kan.-based insurance agency franchisor Brooke Corp. has been hit with a number of lawsuits that raise questions about its business dealings with agents who bought into its nationwide operation, which now...
Calif. Supreme Court qualifies enforcement of class action waivers
Oct 8 2007 // The California Supreme Court has ruled that class action waivers in arbitration agreements are unenforceable if a court determines “that a class arbitration would be a significantly more effective way of vindicating...
Florida Couple Accept Settlement in Lawsuit Against State Farm
Oct 6 2007 // A lawsuit in a Mississippi court over Hurricane Katrina damage ended last week with a settlement between the insurance company and the Florida couple. It was the first Katrina-related insurance case to be brought in a...
Class Action Suit Filed Against N.J. Meat Plant, Markets
Oct 5 2007 // As government scientists searched for the source of a multistate E. coli outbreak linked to frozen hamburgers, a class-action lawsuit was filed Wednesday against the New Jersey producer of the patties and supermarkets that...
Abuse Lawsuit Alleges Widespread Problems with Mormons, Boy Scouts
Oct 5 2007 // A $25 million sex abuse lawsuit against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Boy Scouts of America filed in Oregon alleges that child abuse has been widespread since the 1960s and little was done to...
W. Va. Jury Issues Verdict in DuPont Lawsuit
Oct 3 2007 // A Harrison County, W. Va., jury says DuPont was negligent in creating a 112-acre waste site tainted with arsenic, cadmium and lead. The jury started deliberations Monday to determine whether chemical maker DuPont was...
States Sue Bush Over Limits on Children’s Health Insurance
Oct 3 2007 // Several states say they will challenge the Bush administration in federal court over its new rules that block the expansion of a health insurance program for children from low-income families. Arizona, California,...
Trustee of Bankrupt West Virginia Steelmaker Sues Zurich
Oct 2 2007 // The trustee of the former Weirton Steel Corp. is suing Zurich Specialties London Ltd., claiming the insurance company refused to pay a legitimate claim and now owes the bankrupt steelmaker’s creditors $39...
Flurry of Rita-related Lawsuits Filed in Southeast Texas
Oct 2 2007 // The second anniversary of Hurricane Rita has brought a flood of lawsuits in southeast Texas and raised questions about the deadline for filing such petitions. “It’s getting serious,” Jefferson County...
N.Y. Judge Dismisses Suit over Gauguin Painting Appraisal
Oct 1 2007 // A judge has dismissed a lawsuit over a small landscape painting by Paul Gauguin which a buyer said was appraised at millions of dollars above its value by a well-known dealer who had “an ownership interest” in...
LAAA Leaders Launch Lawsuit Against Choicepoint
Sep 27 2007 // Two insurance producers, also board of directors for the Latin American Agents Association (LAAA), have filed a class action lawsuit against Choicepoint Inc. alleging, among other things, that the company routinely sells...
Chicago Woman Files Lawsuit Involving Recalled Cribs
Sep 27 2007 // A Chicago-area woman who bought a crib that was later part of a major recall has sued its maker, Simplicity Inc., and retailer Target Corp. The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in Minneapolis, seeks class-action...
Feds Sues Ill. Saying New Law Hinders Illegal Immigration Crackdown
Sep 26 2007 // The Federal government is suing Illinois over a new state law it says complicates federal efforts to crack down on illegal immigration. The Illinois law would prevent employers from participating in a federal program that...
