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XM Satellite Seeks to Block Copyright Suit by Record Labels
Jul 19 2006 // XM Satellite Radio has asked a federal judge to throw out a copyright lawsuit by the recording industry over the company’s new iPod-like device that can store up to 50 hours of music. XM Satellite said the 1992 Home...
Same-Sex Couple Cites Loss of Consortium in Conn. Med-Mal Suit
Jul 19 2006 // A same-sex couple has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit that their attorneys say is the first of its kind since Connecticut started allowing gay couples to enter into civil unions. Margaret Mueller and Charlotte Stacey...
Pa. Officials Settle 1995 Defamation Suit Against Newspaper
Jul 17 2006 // Two former West Chester, Pennsylvania city officials have settled a decade-long lawsuit against their local newspaper in a case that spawned a 2004 Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling that news media said eroded free press...
Big Dig Tragedy Expected to Trigger New Wave of Litigation
Jul 17 2006 // When the family of the Jamaica Plain, Mass. woman who was killed when part of the ceiling in a Boston Big Dig tunnel fell gets around to filing a wrongful death lawsuit, that suit is expected to trigger legal fights among...
Suit Against La.’s Last-Resort Plan Becomes Class Action
Jul 14 2006 // A lawsuit alleging that Louisiana’s insurance plan of last resort failed to pay homeowner claims following hurricanes Katrina and Rita has been granted class-action status. State District Judge Henry Sullivan took...
Happy Birthday Visit Ends with Lawsuit Between Daughter, Mother
Jul 14 2006 // An Illinois woman is suing her Wisconsin parents for negligence, claiming a surprise birthday visit to her mother in January 2005 left the woman with a broken ankle after a fall on her parents’ icy driveway. A...
S.D. Amendment Allowing Judges to be Sued Opposed by Insurer Trades
Jul 14 2006 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) and the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) said today that South Dakota Attorney General Larry Long’s official explanation of a proposed constitutional...
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,...
