Latest Lawsuits Headlines
All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Ballard Sues Farmers Over Accusations
Nov 6 2002 // Austin, Texas-based homeowner advocate, Melinda Ballard, announced she filed a lawsuit in Travis County District Court against Farmers Insurance (Farmers) and its paid spokesman for falsely accusing her of committing...
Ohio Ins. Director Files 10th Brief in Auto Parts Dispute
Oct 30 2002 // Ohio Insurance Director Lee Covington has become the point man for insurance commissioners nationwide, who are worried about court decisions, usually involving class actions, that they feel trespass on their regulatory...
Class Action Suit Filed on Behalf of Purchasers of The St. Paul Cos.
Oct 30 2002 // The law firm of Cauley Geller Bowman & Coates, LLP reports that a class action has been filed in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota on behalf of purchasers of The St. Paul Companies...
Market Conduct Report Prompts Lawsuit Against Calif. Commissioner
Oct 28 2002 // The court felt that the allegations should be heard,” Cary Cheldin, president of Crusader Insurance Services in Woodland Hills, Calif., told Insurance Journal. Cheldin was referring to a lawsuit Crusader Insurance...
The St. Paul Cos. Notes Lawsuits, Says It Will Contest
Oct 23 2002 // The St. Paul Cos. reports two lawsuits have been filed against it and two of its executives over the insurer’s handling of the Western MacArthur asbestos case, which cost the insurer nearly a billion dollars and sent...
Pa. Insurance Dept. Sues Reliance Accountant
Oct 17 2002 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department has filed suit against accounting firm Deloitte & Touche LLC, which the department charges inflated Reliance Insurance Co.’s financial statements by $1 billion, contributing...
NAII Hails Avery Appeal as Move Against “Judicial Hellholes”
Oct 7 2002 // The NAII strongly approved the Illinois Supreme Court’s decision to review the judgment in the case of Avery vs. State Farm, which awarded $1.2 billion in damages to the plaintiffs in a nationwide lawsuit against the...
Report Near North Sues Aon over Approaches to Clients
Oct 7 2002 // According to a report appearing on the Web site of the Chicago Tribune, Near North Insurance (NNI) has filed a lawsuit directly against Aon, alleging that former NNI employees, who had joined Aon, used proprietary...
Segal Files $700 Million Lawsuit Against Aon, Former Near North Employees
Oct 4 2002 // Michael Segal, the founder and former CEO of Chicago-based broker Near North Insurance, has filed a lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court seeking a total of $700 million in damages from six former employees who joined Aon,...
CON ED, INSURERS SUE PORT AUTHORITY
Sep 30 2002 // Consolidated Edison Co. of New York and a group of its insurers sued the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey recently in search of more than $314.5 million for damages to a substation that was demolished in the Sept....
Court Rejects Generali, Zurich Life Contentions in Holocaust Claims Lawsuit
Sep 26 2002 // A federal court in New York has ruled that a lawsuit brought by Holocaust victims and their families against Italian insurer Generali and Switzerland’s Zurich Life Insurance Co. can go forward in the U.S. court. The...
Owner of Fort Worth’s Landmark Tower Sues Insurer
Sep 24 2002 // FWTX Building, the corporation that owns the Landmark Tower building in Fort Worth, which was severely damaged in a March 2000 tornado, recently sued the building’s insurance carrier for not providing coverage for...
Ohio Insurance Commissioner Opposes Class Action Lawsuit Against Progressive
Sep 18 2002 // Ohio Insurance Director Lee Covington has filed a “friend of the court” brief supporting the decision of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas that refused to certify a class action lawsuit against Mayfield...
MEEMIC Reports Dismissal of Shareholder Lawsuit
Sep 16 2002 // Michigan-based MEEMIC Holdings, Inc. reported that the lawsuit filed by shareholder David Osher against the company, its directors and ProAssurance Corporation, that sought to enjoin the company’s privatization plan,...
NEV. COUPLE AWARDED $4M IN MED-MAL PRACTICE SUIT
Sep 16 2002 // A Las Vegas couple will receive $4 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit, marking the first significant verdict against a doctor since Nevada lawmakers put into effect tort reform, according to the Associated Press. A...
Con Ed, Insurers Sue Port Authority
Sep 11 2002 // Consolidated Edison Co. of New York and a group of its insurers sued the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Sept. 10 in search of more than $314.5 million for damages to a substation that was demolished in the Sept....
Suellyn Boastick Selected as 2002 National Outstanding CSR of the Year
Sep 9 2002 // Suellyn Boastick of the Lewis Insurance Store Inc., in Champaign, Illinois, has just been awarded the most prestigious honor available to insurance customer service representatives – the 2002 National Outstanding CSR...
Farmers Sues Montemayor, TDI
Sep 5 2002 // Farmers operating units Farmers Insurance Exchange and Fire Insurance Exchange have filed suit against Texas Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor and the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) in response to the issuance of...
POA and IAQA Applaud TX AG’s Suit Against Mold Restoration Inc.
Sep 3 2002 // Austin-based Policyholders of America (POA) and the Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA) announced their support of the decision by Texas Attorney General John Cornyn’s to file suit against a mold remediation...
PIFC Says SB 688 Designed to Increase Lawsuits in Calif.
Aug 30 2002 // California trial lawyers successfully passed SB 688 out of the Assembly Judiciary Committee on Aug. 27, 2002 that, if enacted, will substantially increase lawsuits, insurance costs and legal costs to local government...
