Latest Lawsuits Headlines
All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Comair Names Federal Government, Ky. Airport in Lawsuits
Aug 16 2007 // Comair has named the federal government, Blue Grass Airport and an airport administrator in federal lawsuits filed against the airline by families of victims of last year’s fatal crash in Kentucky. Comair spokeswoman...
Conn. Physicians Sue Insurers, Alleging They Favor Designated Doctors
Aug 16 2007 // A Connecticut physicians group has sued three insurance companies, claiming they steer patients to certain doctors designated as elite to cut costs. In a lawsuit filed in Danbury Superior Court, the Fairfield County...
Rutgers Student Sues Imus, Claiming Radio Host Harmed Her Reputation
Aug 16 2007 // A member of the Rutgers women’s basketball team sued Don Imus and CBS this week, claiming the radio personality’s sexist and racist comments about the team damaged her reputation. Kia Vaughn filed the...
Interim Report: No Proof Insurers Labeled Katrina Wind Claims as Flood
Aug 16 2007 // A preliminary report from the federal government has found no evidence to support allegations that private insurers improperly shifted wind damage claims from Hurricane Katrina onto the federal government’s flood...
Official Blames Safety Flaws in U.S. Aviation System for Comair Crash
Aug 15 2007 // A lead investigator of last summer’s deadly Comair plane crash in Kentucky that killed 49 people says the accident exposed “latent failures” across the nation’s aviation system. In an eight-page...
FedEx Settles Race Bias Class Action for $55 Million
Aug 15 2007 // FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp., reports it has received final approval on the settlement agreement in the case of Satchell, et. al. vs. FedEx Express alleging racial discrimination by the company. The company...
Neb. Jury Awards $1.2 Million to Former Student in Sex Abuse Case
Aug 13 2007 // A jury in North Platte, Neb. awarded $1.2 million to a former student who says he was sexually abused by a teacher already accused of molesting other students. The former student, who is now 25 and identified only as John...
La. Judge: No Basis for Suit to Make State Sue Insurance Companies
Aug 13 2007 // A judge in Baton Rouge, La., threw out a request to make state officials sue insurance companies for hurricane repairs on public property, saying the suit neither named any companies to sue nor listed any specific damaged...
Wash. Court: Old Bankruptcy Nixes Worker’s Asbestos Claim
Aug 13 2007 // Todd Shipyards Corp. can’t be sued for a deceased worker’s asbestos exposure because the man missed a filing deadline in a 20-year-old bankruptcy proceeding, the Washington Supreme Court said. In a unanimous...
North Idaho School District Sued over Face Paint Removal
Aug 13 2007 // A north Idaho school district is being sued by the parents of two junior high school students who say their children were burned when their face paint was removed after they waited too long to do it themselves. Georgeanne...
Ind. Court Agrees with Insurance Company in Bob Knight Lawsuit
Aug 10 2007 // Bob Knight isn’t entitled to collect insurance to recoup money he paid to settle a lawsuit stemming from his 1999 confrontation with a former assistant at Indiana University, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled on...
St. Bernard Parish, La., Considers Suing Insurance Companies
Aug 10 2007 // The St. Bernard (Louisiana) Parish Council has hired a Chalmette law firm to explore litigation against two of the parish’s insurers. Any lawsuit must be filed by Aug. 29, the second anniversary of Hurricane...
Commerce Insurance, Commerce Banc Pursue Partnership Over Lawsuit
Aug 9 2007 // The Commerce Group, Inc., a property/casualty insurer based in Webster, Mass., and Commerce Banc Insurance Services of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, report they have reached an agreement to explore partnership opportunities in...
Va. Man Awarded $41 Million for Priest Abuse Files Another Suit
Aug 9 2007 // A Navy doctor who was awarded $41 million in a civil lawsuit against a pedophile priest has filed a second lawsuit against Roman Catholic officials. Attorneys for Cmdr. Kenneth Whitwell, 39, of Quantico, Va., filed the...
Va. Conservatives File Suit Against New Tax, Driving Fees Law
Aug 9 2007 // Virginia anti-tax conservatives this week filed the broadest legal challenge yet to the new transportation funding law, targeting not just steep fees for bad driving but the fiscal underpinning of the $1 billion-a-year...
Truck Driver Burned in N.Y. Steam Pipe Blast Sues Con Ed
Aug 9 2007 // A tow-truck driver and his passenger burned in last month’s massive steam-pipe explosion in New York City have filed lawsuits against Consolidated Edison, accusing the utility of misconduct. Gregory McCullough, 21,...
More Plaintiffs Join Mo. Lawsuit Involving Popcorn Plant
Aug 9 2007 // Forty-three current or former workers at a southwest Missouri microwave-popcorn packaging plant have joined in the suit claiming they sustained lung damage by working with a butter flavoring. A man who lived near the...
U.S. May Join Lawsuit Claiming Insurers Defrauded Government Over Katrina Claims
Aug 8 2007 // The U.S. Department of Justice is weighing whether to intervene in a lawsuit that accuses insurance companies of overbilling the federal government for flood damage from Hurricane Katrina, a judge who unsealed the case on...
N.J. Court: Out-of-Stater Can Be Sued for Libel for Web Postings
Aug 6 2007 // An out-of-state resident can be sued for libel in New Jersey for statements posted to a Web site forum because his comments targeted a New Jersey resident, a New Jersey appeals court has ruled. The ruling in Danna...
Minn. groups sue AIG for $100 million in damages for fraud, violations
Aug 6 2007 // The Minnesota Workers’ Compensation Reinsurance Association (WCRA) and the Minnesota Workers’ Compen-sation Insurers Association (MWCIA) filed suit on July 17, 2007, against American International Group Inc....
