Latest Lawsuits Headlines
All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Google Settles Rest of Geico Suit
Sep 9 2005 // Google Inc. has settled the last part of a lawsuit alleging the online search engine leader’s advertising network illegally exploited insurer Geico Inc.’s brand, avoiding a trial on an issue that threatened to...
Gen Re CEO May Face SEC Fraud Suit
Sep 9 2005 // Berkshire Hathaway Inc. announced that the Securities and Exchange Commission may file a civil fraud complaint against the chief executive, Joseph Brandon, of its General Re Corp. unit over a questionable insurance...
Case Law Watch
Sep 5 2005 // Richard v. Century Sur. Co. (W.D. La. June 25, 2005) Question of fact regarding reinstatement of CGL policy: This concerns property damage incurred during Hurricane Lillie on Oct. 3, 2002. The insured made a claim under...
Case Law Watch
Sep 5 2005 // Boghos v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s of London (California, July 18, 2005) Ruling: This case considered the effect and enforceability of an arbitration clause in a contract for disability insurance. The Supreme...
But Lawmakers, Interest Groups Still Debate Over Use of Aftermarket Parts
Sep 5 2005 // But Lawmakers, Interest Groups Still Debate Over Use of Aftermarket Parts Critics of national class action suits were among those cheering the loudest after the Illinois Supreme Court dismissed a $1.06 billion judgment...
State Farm Car Parts Reversal Gives Boost to Class Action Critics
Sep 5 2005 // Critics of national class action suits were among those cheering the loudest after the Illinois Supreme Court dismissed a $1.06 billion judgment against State Farm Insurance involving the use of generic auto repair...
Second Vioxx Trial to Open in N.J. as Suits Against Merck Multiply
Sep 5 2005 // Beleaguered drug maker Merck & Co.’s request to postpone the next trial over its withdrawn painkiller Vioxx has been turned down by the judge presiding over the case. Superior Court Judge Carol E. Higbee, who is...
Second Vioxx Trial to Open in N.J. as Suits Against Merck Multiply
Sep 5 2005 // Beleaguered drug maker Merck & Co.’s request to postpone the next trial over its withdrawn painkiller Vioxx has been turned down by the judge presiding over the case. Superior Court Judge Carol E. Higbee, who is...
CCC Settles ChoiceParts Litigation
Sep 2 2005 // CCC Information Services Inc., a subsidiary of CCC Information Services Group Inc., today announced that ChoiceParts, LLC and its three founding companies, including CCC, have signed a settlement agreement with the...
Allstate Settles Class Action Lawsuit for $120 Million
Sep 1 2005 // Allstate Corp. has agreed to pay up to $120 million to settle a class-action lawsuit in California brought by employees for overtime pay issues, but it still denies any wrongdoing. The Northbrook, Ill.-based...
Argonaut Group Sub, MTA Settle Suit
Aug 25 2005 // San Antonio-based Argonaut Group Inc. announced that Argonaut Insurance Company has settled its longstanding dispute with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (“MTA”). The settlement...
Conn. Bullying Lawsuit Settled
Aug 23 2005 // The town of Greenwich, Conn. has settled a lawsuit filed in December by parents who said the Greenwich Public Schools did nothing to stop their daughter from being bullied. The lawsuit, one of the first of its kind in the...
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...
