Latest Lawsuits Headlines
All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
AGENCY SUED OVER FLOOD ADVICE:
Jun 6 2005 // An insurance agency that allegedly failed to tell a beverage company that its warehouse sat in a 100-year flood plain is being sued by the beverage company, which later suffered an $8.4 million in flood...
Arizona Homeowners Sue Insurers Over Wildfire
Jun 6 2005 // Homeowners from a vacation mountaintop community northeast of Tucson began filing lawsuits accusing their insurance companies of failing to provide enough coverage on homes destroyed in a June 2003 wildfire. Seventy...
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Jun 6 2005 // MASSACHUSETTS Workers Comp Rates Up 3%: Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julianne Bowler has approved a 3.0 percent overall average rate reduction in workers’ compensation rates, a savings of $32.6 million in...
Arizona Homeowners Sue Insurers Over Wildfire
Jun 6 2005 // Homeowners from a vacation mountaintop community northeast of Tucson began filing lawsuits accusing their insurance companies of failing to provide enough coverage on homes destroyed in a June 2003 wildfire. Seventy...
Arizona Homeowners Sue Insurers Over Wildfire
Jun 6 2005 // Homeowners from a vacation mountaintop community northeast of Tucson began filing lawsuits accusing their insurance companies of failing to provide enough coverage on homes destroyed in a June 2003 wildfire. Seventy...
Ohio AG Moves to Block Greenberg Sale of AIG Common Stock to Wife
May 27 2005 // Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro has filed suit against former American International Group Inc. CEO Maurice R. “Hank” Greenberg and his wife, Corinne P. Greenberg, in order to put a hold on the transfer of more...
N.Y. AG Spitzer, Supt. Mills File Civil Suit Against AIG
May 26 2005 // New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and State Insurance Superintendent Howard Mills announced a lawsuit against the nation’s largest business insurance company, alleging that the firm manipulated its books to...
Owners of Arizona Homes Burned by Wildfire Sue Insurance Companies
May 25 2005 // Homeowners from a mountaintop community northeast of Tucson began filing lawsuits May 24 accusing their insurance companies of failing to provide enough coverage on homes destroyed in a June 2003 wildfire. Roughly 70...
Pa. Agency Sued Over Alleged Failure to Suggest Flood Insurance for Beverage Company
May 23 2005 // An insurance agency failed to tell a beverage company its warehouse sat in a 100-year flood plain, causing the company to suffer $8.4 million in flood damage, a lawsuit claims. Latrobe-based LeNature’s Inc. recently...
Amid Scrutiny, Aon Tops Earnings Estimates
May 23 2005 // CHICAGO–Aon Corp. saw its shares leap 15 percent after the world’s second-largest insurance brokerage reported quarterly profits that far exceeded Wall Street’s expectations. Shares in the company, which...
South Bend Employers Sue Company Over Unpaid Health Claims
May 23 2005 // SOUTH BEND, Ind.–Some of the South Bend area’s largest employers have filed lawsuits against a company hired to process health insurance claims for their employees. The employers allege that they paid millions...
South Bend Employers Sue Company Over Unpaid Health Claims
May 23 2005 // Amid Scrutiny, Aon Tops Earnings Estimates With Q1 Profits Up 18% CHICAGO-Aon Corp. saw its shares leap 15 percent after the world’s second-largest insurance brokerage reported quarterly profits that far exceeded...
South Bend Employers Sue Company Over Unpaid Health Claims
May 23 2005 // SOUTH BEND, Ind.-Some of the South Bend area’s largest employers have filed lawsuits against a company hired to process health insurance claims for their employees. The employers allege that they paid millions to...
To Subscribe or Not Subscribe That is the Workers’ Comp Question
May 23 2005 // As Texans, we pride ourselves on our rugged independence and our determination to forge our own path. That is certainly what Texas has done in the area of workers’ compensation, the state-regulated insurance program...
Accident Victim’s Attorney Asks Court to Limit Access to Medical Records
May 23 2005 // A lawyer for a woman suing over injuries from a 2001 car accident asked the Colorado Supreme Court to limit the other side’s access to her medical records, saying insurance companies have abused such information and...
La. Suit Challenges State Farm’s Conversion of Homeowner Policies
May 17 2005 // Two State Farm Insurance Co. customers have filed suit, claiming the company illegally converted the homeowner policies of hundreds of thousands of Louisiana residents in ways that effectively raised their rates and...
Md. Woman Sues Vioxx Maker Over Husband’s Death
May 16 2005 // A Frederick County woman is suing the maker of Vioxx, claiming the pain reliever that was later taken off the market caused her husband’s death. The suit seeks $10 million in compensatory damages and $20 million in...
Mass. Jury Awards $24 Million in Childbirth Lawsuit
May 12 2005 // In one of the largest malpractice verdicts in state history, a jury has awarded $23.8 million to the parents of a girl born with cerebral palsy after a traumatic delivery at Massachusetts General Hospital. The Suffolk...
Ohio House Bill Makes It Harder for Injured Employees to Sue
May 10 2005 // As of April 6, 2005, injured employees will find it harder to have “their day in court.” Through the recent passage of Ohio House Bill 498, changes will occur to the current state of employee liabilities in the...
Accident Victim’s Attorney Asks Court to Limit Access to Medical Records
May 9 2005 // A lawyer for a woman suing over injuries from a 2001 car accident asked the Colorado Supreme Court to limit the other side’s access to her medical records, saying insurance companies have abused such information and...
