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Plaintiffs Crowd La. Courthouse, Suing Insurers Just in Case
Aug 31 2006 // The line of people suing insurance companies – just in case something derails Louisiana’s one-year extension of the deadline for victims of last year’s hurricanes – spilled out of the clerk of...
Wrongful Death Suit Filed in Boston’s Big Dig Tunnel Collapse
Aug 30 2006 // The family of a Boston woman killed when concrete ceiling tiles in a Big Dig highway tunnel fell on her car has filed a wrongful death suit against the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority and nine companies involved in the...
Lawsuits Cost Memphis $2 Million
Aug 29 2006 // Memphis city officials say they’ve shelled out nearly $2 million toward settling at least five lawsuits this year. The city attorney’s office, responding to The Commercial Appeal’s open records request,...
Other Side of Tort Reform: Alabama Woman Hurt By Award Cap
Aug 29 2006 // Swollen and limp, Trudy Roy’s left arm hangs dead at her side. With its nerves shredded beyond repair, the limb is little but a source of pain for the 68-year-old former librarian, a constant numbness and ache, like...
Kentucky Suspends Lawyers Who Won $200M Fen-Phen Case
Aug 28 2006 // Three attorneys have been temporarily suspended from practicing law in Kentucky because of questions about the way they divided a $200 million settlement from a fen-phen lawsuit. The Kentucky Supreme Court took the action...
Federal Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Over Coal Mine Safety
Aug 25 2006 // A federal judge on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit by coal miners demanding that the government do more to ensure miners have working oxygen supplies and know how to use them. The lawsuit was filed in June after Congress...
Judge Dismisses Suit Over W. Va. Sago Coal Mine Safety
Aug 24 2006 // A federal judge this week threw out a lawsuit by coal miners that demanded the government do more to ensure that miners have working oxygen supplies and know how to use them. The lawsuit was filed in June after Congress...
Ohio Steel Company Drops Lawsuit Over Retiree Health Benefits
Aug 24 2006 // Cincinnati-based AK Steel Corp. has withdrawn a federal lawsuit in Dayton over retiree benefits because it expects quick resolution of a similar suit in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati, a spokesman recently said. The...
Businesses File First in Series of Lawsuits Against Competitors Hiring Undocumented Immigrants
Aug 23 2006 // Frustrated businesses took their fight against illegal immigration to a Los Angeles court Tuesday, filing the first in a series of lawsuits accusing competitors of hiring illegal workers to achieve an unfair...
In Maine, Wrongful Death Suit Blames Forklift Design
Aug 22 2006 // The family of a Sanford man killed in an industrial accident blames the manufacturer of a forklift for a design that allowed the man to become pinned when he backed up under a shelving unit. An inexpensive adaptation could...
Judge Rules Against Private Ambulance Company Serving Spokane
Aug 21 2006 // A judge has ruled that Spokane, Wash., residents who have used American Medical Response ambulances since 1998 can pursue state Consumer Protection Act and breach of contract claims against the company. AMR, the...
Shareholders lose out in class action securities settlements, study says
Aug 21 2006 // Since 1995, there have been 755 separate cases of class action securities litigation on allegations of companies inflating their stock prices due to fraud or untimely disclosure. Settlements in these cases have totaled...
Judge denies California insurers’ lawsuit to stop auto rate regs
Aug 21 2006 // A Sacramento Superior Court judge has rejected the insurance industry’s request for an injunction against auto insurance rate regulation reforms in California, but the legal challenges will not end...
Lawyers group pulls surfing contest sponsorship for fear of being sued
Aug 21 2006 // The nation’s lawyers apparently have no fear of sharks — unless they’re the kind that file lawsuits. About 40 lawyers signed up for the National Lawyers on Longboards Surfing Contest scheduled during the...
Lawyers group pulls surfing contest sponsorship for fear of being sued
Aug 21 2006 // The nation’s lawyers apparently have no fear of sharks — unless they’re the kind that file lawsuits. About 40 lawyers signed up for the National Lawyers on Longboards Surfing Contest scheduled during the...
Judge Who Decided First Katrina Case Now Faces Hundreds
Aug 18 2006 // One down, hundreds to go. That’s the tally for a federal judge who ruled this week in favor of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. in the first trial to challenge insurers for refusing to cover billions of dollars in...
Judge for Katrina Insurance Lawsuits Seeks Lawyers’ Advice
Aug 16 2006 // A federal judge presiding over most of the insurance lawsuits spawned by Hurricane Katrina is soliciting advice on the best way to resolve hundreds of cases in a “just, speedy and inexpensive” manner. In a...
State Farm Trying to Improve its Image After Hurricane Katrina
Aug 16 2006 // Representatives of State Farm Insurance Co. are on a media tour in Mississippi to give a more positive image to the company as it and others in the industry fend off lawsuits filed in the aftermath of Hurricane...
Developer Alleges Conseco Rigged Sale of N.Y. Building
Aug 15 2006 // Billionaire real-estate developer Sheldon H. Solow filed a federal lawsuit last week against insurer Conseco Inc. and one of its subsidiaries, alleging an auction to sell the General Motors Building in Manhattan in 2003...
Another Katrina Suit Filed Against State Farm by Mississippi Insured
Aug 14 2006 // Judy Dutruch has long questioned why her insurance company refused to send an engineer to investigate Hurricane Katrina’s destruction of her Diamondhead home on Aug. 29, 2005, before denying her claim. Batesville...
