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Unrestrained Litigation Threatens Miss. Judicial System, Insurers Contend
Mar 27 2006 // While slow but steady progress is being made in improving Mississippi’s judicial climate, the good news is tempered by the threat to the state from unrestrained litigation in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, according...
Wis. Business Climate Going Downhill Fast, Says Group for Legal Reform
Mar 27 2006 // Wisconsin’s legal climate for businesses has gone downhill faster than that of any other state after a series of court rulings expanded the liability of companies, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says in a new...
Jury Awards More Than $10M in Water Bottlers’ Lawsuit
Mar 24 2006 // A Portland, Maine jury ordered a Seattle law firm to pay $10.8 million for dumping one set of clients for a more lucrative class-action case. Jurors will return to federal court next week to settle the issue of punitive...
Insurance Director Says Malpractice Order Will Help Keep Doctors in Ill.
Mar 24 2006 // Illinois’ first attempt at lowering malpractice insurance rates for thousands of doctors is drawing criticism from key players, but its chief architect promises it will provide much-needed relief. Michael McRaith,...
Miss. Lawsuit Alleges Engineer Altered Katrina Damage Report
Mar 22 2006 // An engineering company altered a report to eliminate the significant role wind played in severely damaging the home of an elderly Gulfport, Mississippi couple during Hurricane Katrina on Aug. 29, a lawsuit claims. The...
Miss. Dealt Setback in Bid to Link Vatican to Frankel Fraud
Mar 21 2006 // A federal appeals court in Jackson has tossed out one of the state of Mississippi’s theories that the Vatican was connected to the fraud scheme of financier Martin Frankel. State Insurance Commissioner George Dale...
Suit Over Flooding Cause Moved to New Orleans
Mar 20 2006 // A suit seeking to have a judge decide whether hurricane damage in the New Orleans area was a problem caused by man or an “act of God” has been moved to New Orleans federal court. U.S. District Judge Frank...
Wind vs. flood Katrina lawsuit sent back to state court
Mar 20 2006 // The Mississippi lawsuit to force insurance companies to pay for damage caused by storm surge has been remanded back to the state’s Chancery Court of Hinds County. Since the state is seeking injunctive relief, the...
Scruggs: Whistleblower Helping in Hurricane Katrina Lawsuit
Mar 20 2006 // A high-profile litigator in Moss Point, Miss. said that a whistleblower is helping him build a case against insurers that allegedly denied thousands of claims from policyholders whose homes were destroyed in Hurricane...
Multi-state class actions could infringe on state regulators
Mar 20 2006 // Allstate Insurance Co., the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies and the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America have joined forces requesting a review of a Court of Appeals decision involving a...
Federal Bureau of Investigation targeting insurance fraud
Mar 20 2006 // The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been accumulating insurance fraud information since Hurricane Katrina and has filed charges in five cases, R. Allyson Delaney, an FBI analyst in Clarksburg, W.Va., told the National...
Insurers for Nortel to Pay $228.5 Million to Settle Shareholder Suit
Mar 19 2006 // Telecom equipment maker Nortel Networks Corp. said on Friday its insurers have agreed to pay $228.5 million toward a proposed settlement of a shareholder lawsuit. As part of the settlement announced in February,...
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...
