Latest Lawsuits Headlines
All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Media professionals want to know: what’s fair use of copyrighted video?
Mar 26 2007 // Media liability has taken center stage as the result of two recent developments, one a lawsuit by a media conglomerate challenging a new media company’s use of copyrighted video clips and the other, an insurance...
Media professionals want to know: what’s fair use of copyrighted video?
Mar 26 2007 // Viacom-YouTube lawsuit, breakthrough insurance product for docemantarians shine spotlight on media liability Media liability has taken center stage as the result of two recent developments, one a lawsuit by a media...
The New Frontier: Hidden exposures and brewing claims in the tech liability field
Mar 26 2007 // Information technology companies may explore the new frontier everyday, but do they know where their exposures lie? Will they be ready for the next big liability risk close encounter? “Owners and or creators of IT...
Conn. Ruling Lowers Bar for Suits Against Self-Service Operations
Mar 26 2007 // The state Supreme Court has adopted a new legal rule making it easier for plaintiffs to sue businesses for negligence alleged in self-service operations. Customers who are injured at a business previously had to...
Cracker Barrel Restaurant Chain Sues Insurers Over Harassment Claims
Mar 26 2007 // Restaurant chain Cracker Barrel is suing two of its insurance carriers, claiming they did not reimburse the company after it settled sexual and racial harassment claims for $2 million. The lawsuit filed last week in U.S....
Top 10 ways for California surplus line brokers to avoid E&O exposures
Mar 26 2007 // Editor’s note: Although this article is geared toward California surplus line brokers, with small variations the same advice may be of help to surplus line and retail brokers in other states. Surplus line brokers...
Top 10 ways for California surplus line brokers to avoid E&O exposures
Mar 26 2007 // Editor’s note: Although this article is geared toward California surplus line brokers, with small variations the same advice may be of help to surplus line and retail brokers in other states. Surplus line brokers...
Class Action for Miss. Katrina ‘Slab’ Claims Denied a Third Time
Mar 26 2007 // In his decision to again disallow a class action suit against State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. regarding “slab” claims from damage caused by Hurricane Katrina, U.S. District Court Judge L.T. Senter Jr. said he...
N.J. high court rules first responders can sue negligent property owners
Mar 26 2007 // The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that when police and firefighters get hurt handling an emergency, they may sue and win compensation if negligence contributed to the injury. The unanimous decision found that a 1993 state...
Recent “opt-out” settlements challenge D&O severity, limits assumptions
Mar 26 2007 // A recent wave of individual institutional in-vestor securities lawsuit “opt-out” settlements is raising troubling new questions about both D&O carriers’ claims severity assumptions and D&O...
Jury awards $17 million in Missouri aftermarket parts lawsuit
Mar 26 2007 // American Family Mutual Insurance Co. was ordered to pay $17 million as part of a class-action lawsuit over aftermarket vehicle parts in Missouri. Following a 3 1/2-week trial, a Jackson County jury found American Family...
Okla. Judge Orders New Trial in Ford Rollover Lawsuit
Mar 23 2007 // A federal judge in Tulsa, Okla., has ordered a new trial in a lawsuit against Ford Motor Co., finding improper conduct by a plaintiff’s attorney and vacating a $15 million jury award to a couple whose son was killed...
Miss.: State Farm Settles Fourth Katrina Lawsuit in a Month
Mar 22 2007 // State Farm settled out of court with a Biloxi couple whose lawsuit over Hurricane Katrina damage was scheduled to be tried next week in federal court, a lawyer for the homeowners said Tuesday. Terms were not...
Chicago Woman Sues Over Pet Food Recall, Seeks Class-action
Mar 22 2007 // A Chicago woman sued Menu Foods this week, alleging the pet food manufacturer delayed announcing a recall of 60 million containers of dog and cat food despite knowing its products were contaminated and potentially...
Procter & Gamble Wins $19 Million in Lawsuit Over Satan Rumors
Mar 21 2007 // Procter & Gamble Co. won a jury award of $19.25 million in a civil lawsuit filed against four former Amway distributors accused of spreading false rumors linking the company to Satanism to advance their own...
Merck Fights Vioxx Class Action Suit Brought by Insurers
Mar 21 2007 // Health insurers and union health plans nationwide should not be allowed to sue Merck & Co. jointly to recover money they paid for Vioxx prescriptions, a lawyer for the drug maker argued this week in opposing a lawsuit...
Mo. Court Dismisses Homeowners’ Lawsuits Alleging Discrimination
Mar 20 2007 // Attorneys for a group of homeowners said they will continue the fight after a federal judge dismissed their lawsuits charging some of the nation’s largest insurers with discriminating against black neighborhoods. U.S...
Georgia Considers Scrapping Immunity for Emergency Doctors
Mar 20 2007 // Families like the Fretwells seem to be forgotten in the annual turf war between doctors and lawyers in Georgia’s Capitol over who should be protected from malpractice lawsuits. Like others, Rodney and Sherry Fretwell...
Fall 2008 Trial Set for New Orleans Navigation Channel Suit
Mar 19 2007 // A federal judge in Louisiana has set a trial date for late 2008 to hear a lawsuit over a navigation channel built and operated by the Army Corps of Engineers that contributed to the flooding of St. Bernard Parish and New...
Lawsuit Reform Bills Advance in Okla. Senate
Mar 15 2007 // The evenly divided Oklahoma Senate recently passed three key lawsuit reform measures, according to a Senate announcement. Senate Republican leaders said they are negotiating with Senate Democrats and leaders of the House...
