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Illinois Supreme Court Reverses $1.06 Billion State Farm Auto Repair Parts Case
Aug 18 2005 // Today, the Illinois Supreme Court reversed a prior state court’s $1.06 billion judgment in a class action against State Farm Insurance over the use of so-called aftermarket auto parts for repairs. The high court...
W. Va. WCC Files Suit Against Pair of Employers for Account Defaults
Aug 18 2005 // West Virginia’s Workers’ Compensation Commission recently filed injunctions against two state employers whose accounts with the Commission are reportedly in default. Injunctions were filed in Kanawha County...
N.J. Physician Drops Suit Against Medical Society Over Reform Politics
Aug 17 2005 // A Hudson County physician who filed a lawsuit against the Medical Society of New Jersey, claiming it and other doctors had conspired to destroy his practice, dropped the suit after two days into a trial. “We opted to...
New ATRF Report Analyzes Why Texas County is a ‘Judicial Hellhole’
Aug 9 2005 // A new report released by the American Tort Reform Foundation details why Jefferson County, Texas – the only Texas jurisdiction to receive the “Judicial Hellhole” designation for three years in a row...
Pa. Court Strikes Down 2002 Tort Reform Aimed at ‘Deep Pocket’ Rule
Aug 8 2005 // A Pennsylvania court has ruled unconstitutional a key component of tort reforms enacted in 2002. Commonwealth Court ruled that a measure that abolished joint and several liability is invalid because it was not germane to...
Pa. Court Strikes Down 2002 Tort Reform Aimed at ‘Deep Pocket’ Rule
Aug 8 2005 // A Pennsylvania court has ruled unconstitutional a key component of tort reforms enacted in 2002. Commonwealth Court ruled that a measure that abolished joint and several liability is invalid because it was not germane to...
Individual Copyright Infringement Insurance Prompts a Lawyerly Debate
Aug 8 2005 // Despite the recent Supreme Court ruling in MGM v. Grokster favoring the recording industry over makers of music downloading services, copyright infringement is likely to continue. Recording companies sued Grokster for...
Insurer Rebuts Va. GOP Lawsuit
Aug 7 2005 // A state Republican Party lawsuit seeking nearly $1 million from an insurance company that refused to cover the GOP after Democrats sued over partisan eavesdropping is frivolous, the insurer contends in a court...
Conn. Doctors Sue UnitedHealth Group Over ‘Inferior’ Plan Requirement
Aug 5 2005 // Four Connecticut doctors have filed a lawsuit accusing the nation’s largest health insurer of using anticompetitive practices to force them into a substandard health insurance network. The doctors filed the lawsuit...
Texas Tech Law School Releases ‘Legislative Intent Roadmap’ on 2003 Lawsuit Reforms
Aug 1 2005 // Texas Tech Law Review has issued a comprehensive overview of lawsuit reform measures passed in 2003. According to an announcement released by the Texas Alliance for Patient Access, the 357-page article, the culmination of...
Reinsurers Sue AIG Alleging Claims Fraud; AIG Denies All Wrongdoing
Aug 1 2005 // A group of 18 insurers is suing American International Group and bankrupt fronting company Trenwick America Reinsurance Corp. for allegedly scheming to collect as much as $73 million in what the insurers claim are...
Insurers Sue Security Firm for Hiring Alleged Md. Arsonist
Jul 31 2005 // The insurers for the company building the Hunters Brooke development in Charles County, Maryland have filed a lawsuit against the security firm that employed one of the men who allegedly set fire to the subdivision last...
Farm Misses Time to File Lawsuit in Damage to Crops
Jul 28 2005 // A judge dismissed a central Wisconsin farm’s lawsuit seeking to recover thousands of dollars in crop losses from an insurance company because the suit was filed days after a deadline, a state appeals court ruled. The...
Ohio Sen. Dunn to Pursue Public Records Lawsuit Against Gov. Taft
Jul 28 2005 // Ohio State Sen. Marc Dann will not drop his public records lawsuit against Gov. Bob Taft, even though the governor has released hundreds of documents he wanted, the Associated Press reported. The Youngstown area Democrat...
U.K. Caught in U.S.-Style Lawsuit Craze? Hogwash, Say Trade Unions
Jul 28 2005 // The United Kingdom is not in the grips of a U.S.-style compensation culture, nine out of every 10 workers injured or made ill by their jobs never receive a penny, and the best way for employers to ensure they stay out of...
Pa. Court Strikes Down ‘Deep Pockets’ Tort Reform
Jul 27 2005 // A Pennsylvania court has ruled unconstitutional a key component of tort reforms enacted in 2002. Commonwealth Court ruled that a measure that abolished joint and several liability is invalid because it was not germane to...
Va. Republicans Sue Insurer for $1M Cost of Eavesdropping Scandal
Jul 27 2005 // The Republican Party of Virginia is suing its liability insurance carrier, seeking nearly $1 million in reimbursement for the GOP’s payout to settle a lawsuit over the eavesdropping scandal and attorneys’ fees...
Ariz. County to Receive Nearly $20K in Class-Action Settlement
Jul 21 2005 // Yuma County, Arizona, will receive nearly $20,000 as its share of an $850 million class-action settlement with MMC Inc., a global insurance brokerage firm that was at the heart of an insurance scandal last year. The Board...
Jury Awards $700M in Damages in Executive Life Suit
Jul 21 2005 // Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi issued the following statement today in regard to the jury’s award of $700 million in punitive damages against Artemis S.A. for its participation in a conspiracy to defraud the...
Texas Jury Finds Humana HMO Liable in Wrongful Death Lawsuit
Jul 21 2005 // A local jury in San Antonio, Texas, on July 1 awarded $7.4 million in actual damages in a wrongful death lawsuit against the health maintenance organization Humana Health Plan of Texas Inc., a physician, and his physicians...
