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All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Insurance Company Loses Ark. Lawsuit Against Trailer Manufacturer
Nov 10 2005 // The Arkansas Court of Appeals ordered the full dismissal of a lawsuit filed by an insurance company that paid a claim after a mobile home caught fire. Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance Co. had claimed that Fleetwood Homes...
“KNIGHT” SUES DINNER THEATER:
Nov 7 2005 // A former employee performing as a jousting “knight” at a Medieval Times dinner theater in Illinois has filed a federal class-action lawsuit alleging he was discriminated against for filing and receiving...
Disaster Claims and the Ripple Effect
Nov 7 2005 // Hurricane Katrina has long gone, but the aftereffects of the mighty storm are likely to linger for a very long time. Rita and Wilma have compounded the mess. The direct losses are staggering. The latest preliminary figures...
Should the D&O Fraud Exclusion Have More Teeth?
Nov 7 2005 // Imagine that you are a new independent director of a public company. Outside auditors uncovered accounting irregularities within one of the company’s primary sales divisions. An internal investigation led to a...
Litigation as Corporate Reality
Nov 7 2005 // Key findings in the Fulbright & Jaworski 2005 Litigation Trends Survey: 1) Litigation Dockets — Eighty-seven percent of U.S. companies are engaged in some form of litigation in the U.S. Twenty percent had one to...
Litigation Costs, More Than Winning, Haunt U.S. Corporate Lawyers
Nov 7 2005 // Nearly 90% of U.S. corporations juggle multiple lawsuits. Litigation has become the great equalizer of the modern corporation. Regardless of size, industry or location, there is certain to be a sizeable number of disputes...
Avoiding Financial Catastrophes:Take Care When Procuring Agents E&O
Nov 7 2005 // Agents and brokers have spent a great deal of energy in recent years finding suitable insurance products for their clients. Not only has the marketplace become more complex, the typical insured has become increasingly more...
How to Write the Diverse Business of Lawyers Professional Liability
Nov 7 2005 // Managing the risk of lawsuits against lawyers. With more than a quarter million law firms in the United States, the lawyers’ professional liability market represents a huge opportunity for retail agents and wholesale...
Nearly 90 Percent of U.S. Corporations Juggle Multiple Lawsuits
Nov 6 2005 // Litigation has become the great equalizer of the modern corporation. Regardless of size, industry or location, there is certain to be a sizeable number of disputes diverting the resources of American businesses. Nearly 90...
News Briefs
Nov 6 2005 // ILLINOIS Garrett Bonham, 29, seeks more than $75,000 in a lawsuit filed last month for injuries sustained in his 10 years of employment as a performing knight at the Schaumburg, Ill., Medieval Times, according to the...
Should the D&O Fraud Exclusion Have More Teeth?
Nov 6 2005 // Imagine that you are a new independent director of a public company. Outside auditors uncovered accounting irregularities within one of the company’s primary sales divisions. An internal investigation led to a...
Litigation Costs, More Than Winning, Haunt U.S. Corporate Lawyers
Nov 6 2005 // Nearly 90% of U.S. corporations juggle multiple lawsuits. Litigation has become the great equalizer of the modern corporation. Regardless of size, industry or location, there is certain to be a sizeable number of disputes...
Avoiding Financial Catastrophes: Take Care When Procuring Agents E&O
Nov 6 2005 // Agents and brokers have spent a great deal of energy in recent years finding suitable insurance products for their clients. Not only has the marketplace become more complex, the typical insured has become increasingly more...
How to Write the Diverse Business of Lawyers Professional Liability
Nov 6 2005 // Managing the risk of lawsuits against lawyers. With more than a quarter million law firms in the United States, the lawyers’ professional liability market represents a huge opportunity for retail agents and wholesale...
Professional liability ripples
Nov 6 2005 // urricane Katrina has long gone, but the aftereffects of the mighty storm are likely to linger for a very long time. Rita and Wilma have compounded the mess. The direct losses are staggering. The latest preliminary figures...
Ark. AG Sues Company Selling Deceptive Prescription Drug Cards
Nov 4 2005 // Arkansas Attorney General Mike Beebe filed suit against Peoples Benefit Services Inc., a company that claims to offer discounts on prescription drugs, the AG’s office announced. Based in Pennsylvania, Peoples Benefit...
Admitted Drunk, Underage Driver Can Sue Bars, Mass. Court Rules
Nov 1 2005 // A Suffolk Superior Court in Boston has ruled that an admittedly drunk underage drinker in Massachusetts can sue two bars that served him alcohol before he was involved in a vehicle crash. According to Judge Ralph Gants,...
Lawsuit Claims Disability Insurer Sought to Avoid Paying Claims
Nov 1 2005 // UnumProvident Corp., the nation’s largest disability insurer, systematically sought ways to avoid paying claims to millions of California customers, a lawsuit claims. The lawsuit filed in Superior Court by...
Tort Reform Legislation Passes House, Moves to Senate
Oct 28 2005 // By a vote of 228-184 on Thursday, the House of Representatives favorably approved H.R. 420, the Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act (LARA). The legislation, introduced by Representative Lamar Smith (R-Texas), would penalize...
Jury Finds N.Y. Port Authority Can Be Sued Over ’93 Trade Center Bombing
Oct 26 2005 // The Port Authority of New York was negligent in the 1993 terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center and can be sued for damages. A State Supreme Court jury in Manhattan has decided that the Port Authority, which owned the...
