Latest Lawsuits Headlines
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Shawnee’s Request to Drop Ohio from Lawsuit a Win, Official Says
Jul 13 2006 // Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro said this week that the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma’s decision to drop the state from its claim for lands in Ohio is a clear indication that their legal claims are...
Cincinnati Insurer Settles Lawsuit Alleging Minorities Overcharged
Jul 12 2006 // The Ohio Insurance Department this week said that about 25,000 minorities in North Carolina could be eligible for benefits as a result of a settlement with Western and Southern Life Insurance Co. An investigation led by...
N.H. Family Sues Supermarket Over Bacteria Illness
Jul 12 2006 // An Epsom, N.H. couple is suing Shop & Stop, saying their 8-year-old son was infected and nearly killed by E.coli bacteria in meat bought at the one of the company’s Manchester stores. Eric Tsirovakas got sick...
Attorneys Arrive in Miss. for Opening of First Katrina Insurance Lawsuit
Jul 11 2006 // Attorneys carried files and exhibits into a Mississippi federal courthouse Monday for what they expect to be a groundbreaking trial on whether insurance policyholders who lost homes in Hurricane Katrina are entitled to...
Deadly N.Y. Tour Boat Capsizing Leads to More Lawsuits
Jul 10 2006 // Last fall’s capsizing of a tour boat that killed 20 people on Lake George, N.Y., including 19 from Michigan, has led to two more lawsuits. One filed by the estate of Marjorie H. Perry, 77, Livonia, Mich., says the...
Group Sues Michigan State University Over Same-sex Benefits
Jul 7 2006 // A conservative group this week filed suit to stop Michigan State University from offering health insurance to the partners of gay workers and said the school is violating a 2004 amendment to the state constitution. The...
Ill. Attorney General Sues Liberty Mutual for Alleged Bid-Rigging
Jul 7 2006 // Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed a lawsuit against Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and seven affiliates, alleging that the company and its affiliates participated in a bid-rigging and business-steering...
Baton Rouge Crime Stoppers Getting Insurance Against Lawsuits
Jul 6 2006 // The Baton Rouge, La., Crime Stoppers organization is buying liability insurance designed to protect its board members from lawsuits. The decision to get the insurance, which costs about $2,000 annually, was not because of...
Two Years After Outbreak, Parties Settle Most Salmonella Suits in Pa.
Jul 6 2006 // Attorneys for Pennsylvania-based Sheetz convenience stores and scores of customers sickened during a salmonella outbreak two years ago have settled more than 80 lawsuits in recent weeks and agreed to delay a filing...
Albuquerque Lawyer Who Sued Insurer Awarded $11 million
Jul 5 2006 // A New Mexico State district court jury has awarded an Albuquerque lawyer nearly $11 million after she sued an insurance company that she said ruined her legal practice. Allstate Insurance Co. routinely hired Suzanne Guest...
TYCO SHAREHOLDERS
Jul 3 2006 // Former shareholders of Tyco International Ltd., whose former chief executive and chief financial officer were convicted of fraud, have been certified as a class to sue the company and its accounting firm, Pricewaterhouse...
Insuring Indian country
Jul 3 2006 // Indian tribes are no longer merely casino entrepreneurs or cigarette wholesalers. In conjunction with America’s largest corporations, Indians are now engaged in real estate development, banking and finance,...
Editor’s Note: Minimizing lawsuit exposure in the workplace … EPLI
Jul 3 2006 // No one would argue that today’s society is possibly the most litigious in U.S. history. Large jury awards that make headlines only spur on many that otherwise may have backed away from action. The insurance industry,...
Insuring Indian country
Jul 3 2006 // Indian tribes are no longer merely casino entrepreneurs or cigarette wholesalers. In conjunction with America’s largest corporations, Indians are now engaged in real estate development, banking and finance,...
California construct defect litigation creating perfect storm
Jul 3 2006 // In The Perfect Storm, the book that inspired the movie of the same name, author Sebastian Junger defined “the perfect storm” as a tempest that may happen only once in a century, a storm created by so rare a...
News Currents
Jul 3 2006 // Three insurers sue to recover claims paid in ’02 wildfire Three insurance companies filed a federal lawsuit to recover $7.04 million in claims paid for homes damaged or destroyed in the 2002 Hayman Fire in...
Lawyers Overseeing Layers
Jul 3 2006 // No country has as many lawyers as the United States — more than 152,000 in California alone — three times as many as in all of France. Nor does any other country rely as heavily on the legal profession to order...
Rising tide of lawsuits-EPLI
Jul 3 2006 // The reality of today’s workplace is that a wide variety of employee grievances may escalate, almost without warning, into costly lawsuits. Any time an employee objects to a company employment practice that is...
N.Y. JUDGE DENIES PATIENT SURGEON’S MEDICAL RECORDS FOR HER MALPRACTICE SUIT
Jul 3 2006 // A woman who says her facelift was botched by a surgeon with physical problems may not see the doctor’s personal medical records as evidence for her lawsuit, a Manhattan judge has ruled. Geraldine Brower says she...
City hall suits
Jul 3 2006 // The cost to New York City of settling legal claims against it has more than doubled since 1995, reaching more than $575 million in 2005, according to the New York City Independent Budget Office. Personal injury claims...
