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Calif. AG Sues Feds for Jeopardizing National Forests
Feb 29 2008 // California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. and Secretary for Resources Mike Chrisman have sued the U.S. Forest Service for adopting “illegal forest management plans” that permit road construction and oil...
SEC Queries Regions Financial over Mutual Fund Litigation
Feb 29 2008 // Regions Financial Corp, a large Southeast regional bank, on Wednesday said it has received information requests from the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding some Morgan Keegan mutual funds whose values plummeted...
EEOC Sues Ore.-Based Fred Meyer Retail Chain
Feb 28 2008 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit against the Fred Meyer retail chain, alleging improper management practices at its Oregon City, Ore.,...
W. Va.: Survivor and One Victim’s Family Settle Sago Mine Lawsuits
Feb 28 2008 // Randal McCloy Jr., the lone survivor of the Sago Mine disaster of 2006, and the family of one victim have settled lawsuits in West Virginia against the mine’s owner. Lawyers for McCloy and the estate of David Lewis...
Columbus School Board Settles Lawsuit over Student Assault
Feb 27 2008 // The Columbus, Ohio school district is to pay $350,000 to settle a lawsuit with the family of a developmentally disabled student who was sexually assaulted at a city high school. A 16-year-old girl told Mifflin High School...
Lexington Insurance Co. Sues to Recoup Losses in Iowa Mansion Fire
Feb 27 2008 // An insurance company that insured a $3 million Bettendorf house destroyed in a fire is suing several businesses to recover its losses. Lexington Insurance Co. blames the fire on the contractors who built the home, the...
Ohio Supreme Court Upholds Law Limiting Product Liability Suits
Feb 26 2008 // The Ohio Supreme Court on Thursday, Feb. 21 upheld a state law that sets a deadline for people to sue manufacturers of defective products but said a General Motors worker can continue with his lawsuit because he was...
Pension Plans Sue Yahoo Over Spurning of Microsoft Offer
Feb 26 2008 // Attorneys for two municipal pension funds have filed a lawsuit against Yahoo Inc. and its board of directors, saying they breached their duties to shareholders of the Internet pioneer in trying to thwart a takeover by...
Maine Race Track Sued Over 2006 Accident
Feb 26 2008 // Unity Raceway in Skowhegan, Maine is being sued by a former auto racing television host who was badly injured during an accident two years ago. John Crawford’s lawyer says the Mainely Motorsports host suffered...
Miss. Court Reinstates Wrongful Death Case against Cleveland Doctor
Feb 26 2008 // A Cleveland doctor gave up his immunity defense in a wrongful death case after spending five years of a Bolivar County trial court’s time with motions and discovery, the Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled. The...
Calif. AG Settles Antitrust Lawsuit Against Barr Pharmaceuticals
Feb 26 2008 // California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. settled an antitrust lawsuit on Monday that charged Barr Pharmaceuticals with taking $20 million for keeping off the market a cheaper, generic version of the oral...
Miss. A.G. Withheld State Farm Settlement Money Pledged to Charities
Feb 25 2008 // The Mississippi attorney general’s office says it plans to pay $1 million in settlement money that was pledged to charities nearly a year ago after a deal was struck with State Farm Fire and Casualty Cos. Boys and...
Iowa Supreme Court Adds Twist to Medical Malpractice Opinion
Feb 25 2008 // The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday sent two medical malpractice lawsuits back to district court after offering a new opinion on how the statute of limitations can be interpreted. The decision, which affects a breast cancer...
Suit Challenges Newark’s Insurance Requirement for Demonstrators
Feb 25 2008 // A three-year-old court order has failed to stop Newark, N.J. from charging people who wish to engage in free speech, according to a lawsuit filed against the city. The lawsuit charged that Newark is violating an order that...
Neb. High Court Nixes Reinstatement of Suit against State Farm
Feb 25 2008 // The Nebraska Supreme Court has refused to reinstate a lawsuit against State Farm in a dispute over whether the insurance company delivered the medical coverage it promised in its automobile policies. The Supreme...
Things to Consider When Estimating Subprime D&O Losses
Feb 24 2008 // There are likely to be more securities class action lawsuits in 2008 than any year since the passage of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act in 1995. In addition, the subprime-related litigation wave is likely to...
Judge: Trapped Miners Can Sue Company, Not 3 Others
Feb 22 2008 // Eight of the nine miners trapped underground in July 2002 when a Pennsylvania mineshaft flooded can continue their suit against the firm that controlled the mine, a judge ruled. Six other miners who narrowly escaped being...
La. Man’s Death After Eating Oysters Prompts Lawsuit
Feb 21 2008 // Relatives of a man who died two weeks after eating oysters for his 60th birthday dinner are suing the state health department and a Denham Springs restaurant, claiming negligence. The family of James Sartwell, in its...
$30M Suit Filed In Md. Hotel Carbon Monoxide Deaths
Feb 21 2008 // A Lebanon, Pa., woman whose husband and 10-year-old daughter were killed by a carbon monoxide leak at an Ocean City, Maryland motel room has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against four companies. The lawsuit seeking $30...
N.M. Tribe Sues Regulator Over Leavitt’s Corp. Status Reinstatement
Feb 21 2008 // The Mescalero Apache Tribe in Santa Fe, N.M., contends it overpaid millions of dollars for insurance, alleging the state let an insurance agent operate after the agent was accused of submitting fraudulent documents to sell...
