Latest Lawsuits Headlines
All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Marsh Lawyer Says Fla. AG Ignores State Settlement
Mar 19 2006 // An attorney representing Marsh & McLennan says that a lawsuit filed by Florida authorities accusing Marsh of lying to clients and receiving improper commissions never should have been filed. The giant insurance...
National Association of Insurance Commissioners
Mar 19 2006 // The Antifraud Task Force cited the need for a uniform database that would allow state authorities to track vehicles damaged by floods. Federal Bureau of Investigation targeting insurance fraud Agent reports to insurance...
Judges in New Orleans Trying to Fast Track Hurricane Lawsuits
Mar 17 2006 // Civil courts in New Orleans, La., have begun trying to speed up storm-related lawsuits – many of them against insurance companies – that deal with who should pay for property damages caused by hurricanes...
Okla. House Passes Comprehensive Lawsuit Reform Package
Mar 16 2006 // Oklahoma House lawmakers advanced a lawsuit reform package, sending a series of bills to the state Senate for consideration. The package is led by the comprehensive Common Sense in the Courtroom Act. House Bill 3120, the...
Calif. Court Reinstates Class Action Against Lead Paint Makers
Mar 14 2006 // A state appeals court in San Jose, Calif. has reinstated a class-action lawsuit alleging that several paint manufacturers knowingly sold harmful lead-based paint products for decades. The Sixth District Court of Appeal on...
Retired Maine Business Executive Alleges Financial Malpractice
Mar 14 2006 // A retired business executive’s lawsuit accusing bank officials of giving him bad financial advice that cost him millions of dollars went to trial in Portland, Maine this week. Darrell Mayeux, who filed the suit in...
Maryland Weighs Longer Filing Period for Child Abuse Lawsuits
Mar 14 2006 // Witnesses who had been sexually abused as children offered what Maryland House Speaker Michael Busch described as “gut wrenching” testimony in Annapolis on behalf of legislation that would extend the cutoff...
Tillinghast Study: U.S. Tort Costs Reach a Record $260 Billion
Mar 13 2006 // U.S. tort costs reached a record $260 billion in 2004, or approximately $886 per person, according to the U.S. Tort Costs and Cross-Border Perspectives: 2005 Update from the Tillinghast business of Towers Perrin. This...
Miss. Wind vs. Flood Lawsuit Remanded Back to State Court
Mar 13 2006 // The Mississippi lawsuit to force insurance companies to honor their policies and pay for damage caused by storm surge has been remanded back to the Chancery Court of Hinds County. Since the state is seeking injunctive, the...
At Congressional Silicosis Hearing, Doctors Refuse to Testify on Diagnoses
Mar 12 2006 // Three physicians who looked at thousands of X-rays and saw an epidemic of silicosis that no one else noticed took the protections of the Fifth Amendment rather than tell Congress about their work or the money they made...
Multi-State Class Actions Could Infringe on State Regulators’ Authority, Interfere with Claims Adjudication
Mar 10 2006 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) has joined other members of the insurance industry in filing an Amici Curiae brief involving a multi-state class action appeal currently before the Washington...
Okla. House Committee Approves Republicans’ Lawsuit Reform Bill
Mar 9 2006 // The Oklahoma House of Representatives Judiciary Committee approved House Bill 3120, the Common Sense in the Courtroom Act, which was proposed by the House Republican leadership. The bill now goes to the full House for a...
Oklahoma Senate Votes Against Democrats’ Lawsuit Reform Bill
Mar 8 2006 // The Oklahoma Senate defeated by a vote of 21-25 Senate Bill 1874, which was authored and introduced by the Senate’s Democrat leadership as a lawsuit reform bill. All 21 Republican senators present, joined by four...
Ariz. Senate Backs Higher Hurdle for Some Malpractice Suits
Mar 8 2006 // Arizona’s Senate voted to make it more difficult to win medical malpractice lawsuits over emergency health care, a step which supporters said is needed to prevent physicians from refusing to work in emergency...
ATRA Urging Mich. House Committee to Keep State a Leader in Tort Reform
Mar 8 2006 // The American Tort Reform Association (ATRA) testified this week before the Michigan House Committee on Tort Reform, urging lawmakers to help the state retain its reputation as a leader in the national legal reform movement...
Model Acts, Confidentiality, Cooperation, Key NAIC Concerns
Mar 7 2006 // Developing model acts to cover a wide variety of insurance issues, confidentiality disclosures and cooperation between states were key concerns discussed by state insurance commissioners and their representatives as the...
It’s not their father’s E&O policy anymore
Mar 6 2006 // Owners of mid-size companies used to make relatively easy, straightforward decisions on what types of insurance to buy. They would purchase property insurance for the buildings; liability for the autos, premises and...
Wyoming litigation legislation could hurt consumers
Mar 6 2006 // Wyoming legislation designed to allow unprecedented insurance-related lawsuits in the state would significantly increase fraud, lawsuits and insurance costs for Wyoming consumers, according to the Property Casualty...
Today’s service firms must look beyond their father’s E&O
Mar 6 2006 // Owners of mid-size companies used to make relatively easy, straightforward decisions on what types of insurance to buy from their local agent. The owners would purchase property insurance for the buildings; liability for...
Case Law Watch
Mar 6 2006 // ERISAMetropolitan Life Insurance v. Parker (Arizona Ninth Circuit Court, Feb. 2, 2006) Ruling: At issue in this case was that although the insurer declared that it owed various proceeds under an Employee Retirement Income...
