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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....
MAINE WIDOW SUES OVER ASLEEP-AT-WHEEL CRASH
Aug 6 2007 // A floor products company faces a lawsuit by the Maine widow of an employee who was killed in a highway crash after he apparently fell asleep at the wheel while driving home from work. Another motorist who was injured in...
Sept. 11 workers sue WTC insurance fund for sick pay
Aug 6 2007 // Ailing ground zero workers have gone to court to demand that the company overseeing a $1 billion Sept. 11 insurance fund uses it to pay for their health care. Attorneys for the workers argue that federal officials meant...
Agents Errors & Omissions
Aug 6 2007 // If ever there was a time for insurance agents to get out and go looking for a better errors and omissions policy, this is the season. Agents who do will come across several admitted carriers that are welcoming new business...
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Aug 6 2007 // Sept. 11 workers sue WTC insurance fund for sick pay Ailing ground zero workers have gone to court to demand that the company overseeing a $1 billion Sept. 11 insurance fund uses it to pay for their health care. Attorneys...
Are lower securities lawsuit filing levels temporary or permanent?
Aug 6 2007 // There are a number of reasons to be skeptical, based on limited data, that we have moved to a permanently lower level of fraudulent corporate activity and of securities class action filings. In early July, Stanford...
Agents in E&O Buyer’s Seat
Aug 6 2007 // If ever there was a time for insurance agents to get out and go looking for a better errors and omissions policy, this is the season. Agents who do will come across several admitted carriers that are welcoming new business...
Oregon State Workers’ Comp Insurer Not Immune from Suit
Aug 3 2007 // The Oregon Supreme Court has ruled that State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation (SAIF), the state workers’ compensation insurer, may be sued for damages. In John Johnson v. SAIF Corp., the plaintiff alleged that...
Ohio High Court Strikes Down Governor’s Veto of Paint Lawsuit Bill
Aug 2 2007 // The Ohio Supreme Court on Aug. 1 struck down Gov. Ted Strickland’s veto of a bill prohibiting lawsuits over lead paint. In a 5-2 decision, the court ordered Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner to move forward with...
Oregon Supreme Court Rules SAIF Not Immune from Lawsuits
Jul 31 2007 // The Oregon Supreme Court ruled the State Accident Insurance Fund Corp. can be sued for violations of federal constitutional rights. The court said that SAIF can be considered a “person” under federal law and,...
Tort Reformers Aid D.C. Dry Cleaner Sued Over Misplaced Pants
Jul 31 2007 // Wearing a bright green protest button, American Tort Reform Association president Sherman “Tiger” Joyce last Tuesday evening joined small business advocates in denouncing the now notorious multimillion-dollar...
Vioxx Federal Judge Sees 2008 Focus on Stroke Cases
Jul 30 2007 // Next year’s federal Vioxx trials may focus on people who had strokes after taking the once popular painkiller, the judge assigned to handle pretrial matters in all 8,575 federal lawsuits said last Friday. “We...
N.J. Customer Sues Starbucks Over Loose Lid on Hot Tea Cup
Jul 30 2007 // A Wayne, New Jersey man who says he was scalded when the lid on his hot tea came off has filed a lawsuit against Starbucks. Antonio Couso, 45, asserted in the lawsuit that the lid was not on properly and the tea was too...
Fearing 1st Amendment Lawsuit, N.H. Town Scraps Insurance Requirement
Jul 30 2007 // Faced with a possible First Amendment lawsuit, selectmen in Jaffrey, New Hampshire have rescinded their new guidelines requiring people or groups holding events on town property to buy $1 million insurance coverage. The...
Mont. Jury Awards Nearly $6.7 Million in Car Seat Suit
Jul 27 2007 // A jury this week ordered car seat maker Evenflo Co. to pay nearly $6.7 million to the parents of a 4-month-old Montana boy who died of head injuries in a July 2000 crash. The 12-member district court jury decided Evenflo...
