Latest Lawsuits Headlines
All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
D&O underwriters assess the subprime meltdown
Nov 4 2007 // When defaults in U.S. mortgages reached record levels in the second quarter of 2007, forcing a large number of subprime mortgage lenders to shut down or file for bankruptcy, the fallout spread quickly throughout the...
U.S. Employee Sues Japanese Ad Firm Alleging Offensive Sexual Activity
Nov 2 2007 // The former creative director of the U.S. arm of Japan’s largest advertising agency sued the company this week, saying he was pressured to visit a brothel and engage in other sexually explicit activities on company...
Consumer Group Says Calif. Commissioner’s Aide Helped Insurers in Lawsuit
Nov 2 2007 // The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights is claiming a former insurance industry lawyer, a senior counsel to California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner, covertly assisted insurance companies in a lawsuit they...
Insurance Company Must Defend Wis. School Employee in Defamation Suit
Nov 1 2007 // A school’s insurance company must pay the attorney fees and expenses of an administrative assistant who was sued for defamation, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday. Gail Haack, who worked for former Algoma School...
Calif. AG Sues Drywall Contractor
Nov 1 2007 // Citing the threat of a “shadowy, underground economy,” California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. sued the Brinas Corp., a Los Angeles drywall contractor that unlawfully forced its employees to work...
S.D. Court Says Insurance Does Not Cover Lawsuit on Wife Stealing
Oct 30 2007 // South Dakota’s public policy prevents insurance from covering damages in lawsuits against those accused of stealing another’s spouse, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The high court’s unanimous...
Women File Lawsuit Over Fatal Balloon Accident
Oct 30 2007 // The sister of a California woman who fell at least 70 feet to her death during the Albuquerque, N.M., International Balloon Fiesta earlier this month has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the balloon pilot, his...
Lawsuit: Union Pacific Pressured Ark. Families Into Settlements
Oct 30 2007 // A lawsuit filed in Arkansas against Union Pacific claims company officials pressured families of those injured or killed by trains to quickly settle for amounts lower than what they may have received with a lawyer’s...
Declaratory judgment actions decide obligations under insurance contracts
Oct 27 2007 // A declaratory judgment action is essentially a request — typically by the insurer but often by the insured — that a court examine the relevant insurance policy provisions and declare the rights and obligations...
Has the two-year lawsuit lull ended?
Oct 27 2007 // Was the two-year letup in class action lawsuit filings too good to be true? In July 2007, Cornerstone Research released its mid-year 2007 study of securities class action filing trends, in which it noted that the first...
News Currents
Oct 27 2007 // ChoicePoint faces class action lawsuit it claims is baseless, association contemplates what action to take Two insurance producers have filed a class action lawsuit against ChoicePoint Inc., ChoicePoint Services Inc.,...
10 ChoicePoint faces class action lawsuit
Oct 27 2007 // Company claims legal action is “frivolous, baseless” 10 Calif. workers’ comp reforms working better than expected Governor vetoes bill to raise benefits 11 Idaho Falls considers banning cell phones while...
News Currents
Oct 27 2007 // Conn. AG alleges reinsurance antitrust conspiracy drives-up prices A lawsuit against a major reinsurance broker for alleged antitrust activity in Connecticut is being used to raise broader questions about the largely...
Wis. Medical Group to Sue Lawmakers over $200 Million Fund Transfer
Oct 24 2007 // The Wisconsin Medical Society is planning to challenge lawmakers’ decision to transfer $200 million from a medical malpractice fund to help balance the budget. Lobbyist Mark Grapentine says the group has hired a...
Iowa Woman Convicted in Fatal Crash Sued by Victim’s Family
Oct 23 2007 // A Clinton, Iowa woman convicted of driving drunk and killing her boyfriend in a crash is being sued by the man’s daughter and the girl’s mother. Lilly Wilkerson was convicted of vehicular homicide and drunken...
Willis Settles Gender Discrimination Class Action Suit
Oct 23 2007 // Willis Group Holdings (NYSE: WSH) announced that the federal court in New York has given preliminary approval to the settlement of a class action suit filed against the company in 2001 that raised issues of gender...
Mo. Lawsuit Alleges Walgreen’s Error Caused Miscarriage
Oct 23 2007 // When Chanda Givens began feeling sick and throwing up about a month into her pregnancy, she wrote it off as morning sickness. It was only after the suburban St. Louis woman miscarried a month later that she learned the...
DuPont Ordered to Pay Nearly $200m in W. Va. Class-action Lawsuit
Oct 22 2007 // A West Virginia court convicted DuPont of wanton, willful and reckless conduct, and ordered the company to pay $196.2 million in punitive damages for its actions at a former zinc-smelting plant, where residents claimed the...
AT&T Sues Web Phone Company Vonage for Patent Infringement
Oct 22 2007 // Internet telephone company Vonage Holdings Corp. disclosed Friday that it’s the target of yet another patent lawsuit from a telephone company, in this case AT&T Inc. That makes AT&T the third major phone...
La. Whistleblower Lawsuit Against Insurers Tossed Out
Oct 19 2007 // A federal judge on Wednesday threw out a so-called “whistleblowers”‘ lawsuit that accuses insurance companies of overbilling the federal government for Hurricane Katrina’s flood damage to Louisiana...
