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Lawsuit’s Settlement Requires Insurers to Pay $50M in Jacksonville, Fla. Incinerator Cleanup
Aug 23 2005 // Insurance companies formerly insuring Jacksonville, Fla. will pay $50 million, while the city will pay $25 million, in the $75 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit filed in 2003 by local residents. The city has...
Texas Election Lawsuit Expanded to Include Insurers
Aug 22 2005 // Several corporate donors, most of them insurance companies, are now defendants in a civil lawsuit filed by three losing Texas Democratic legislative candidates in connection with funding of their opponents’...
News Briefs
Aug 22 2005 // MASSACHUSETTS Health Insurance Rates Rising: The state’s largest health insurers say most Massachusetts companies and their workers will see increases of 10 percent or more in their health insurance premiums...
Eavesdropping Scandal Aftermath Pits Insurer Vs. Virginia GOP
Aug 22 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 an eavesdropping scandal and attorneys’ fees...
Bare market for residential
Aug 22 2005 // As construction development in the United States reaches an all time peak, with overall spending up 7.5 percent in 2005 compared to 2004, agents and brokers writing contractor business are having a tough time locating...
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...
