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Enron’s Crash Radiates in All Directions, Implications for Insurers
Jan 28 2002 // “Bankruptcy” and “Chapter 11” are inadequate terms to describe the carnage left in the wake of Enron’s collapse, which affected the lives of thousands of people, numerous banks and dozens of...
GMAC Lawsuit Against Silverstein Targets Insurance Payments
Jan 17 2002 // While Swiss Re and other insurers are in federal court facing Silverstein Properties, the master lease holder of the World Trade Center, General Motors Acceptance Corp. has filed an action in State Court, seeking a share...
Employers Mutual Casualty Co. to Use Visibillity’s Litigation Management Systems
Jan 16 2002 // Visibillity Inc. announced that Employers Mutual Casualty Company, a property and casualty insurer with headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa, signed a three year contract valued at more than $1 million dollars for...
Insurers gain time in JP Morgan suit on surety bonds
Jan 16 2002 // According to Reuters, a number of U.S. insurers have gone forward in their legal duel with J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Inc., claiming they do not have to pay up on $1.1 billion of surety bonds related to the fall of...
Hartford Sues NJ Auto Fraud Ring
Jan 15 2002 // The Hartford has filed a civil action in Morris County State Court against 27 New Jersey residents, charging that they conspired to stage motor vehicle accidents and fake injuries to generate hundreds of thousands of...
World Trade Center Building Lawsuits Multiply
Jan 14 2002 // Several new fronts have opened in the ongoing battle over World Trade Center coverage. On Dec. 28, 2001, Silverstein Properties (SP), the master leaseholder, filed a lawsuit against Travelers to recover the losses it...
World Trade Center Building Lawsuits Multiply
Jan 14 2002 // Several new fronts have opened in the ongoing battle over World Trade Center coverage. On Dec. 28, 2001, Silverstein Properties (SP), the master leaseholder, filed a lawsuit against Travelers to recover the losses it...
EEOC SUES, AllSTATE DISAPPOINTED
Jan 14 2002 // The Allstate Corporation has expressed its displeasure with the Equal Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC’s) lawsuit against its Allstate Insurance Company subsidiary over an agency system reorganization. The EEOC...
Automobile Dealer Surety Bonds: What Constitutes A Breach of Condition’
Jan 14 2002 // Many surety bonds are tailored for particular relationships or statutory requirements—one such example is the motor vehicle dealers bond required by Section 503.033 of the Texas Transportation Code. While there are few...
Allianz Joins WTC Lawsuit
Jan 4 2002 // Germany’s Allianz AG has elected to become part of the World Trade Center dispute by joining Swiss Re and Chubb Corp. in seeking to have the destruction of the twin towers declared “one occurrence,”...
Feds Want Farmers’ Lawsuit Thrown Out
Jan 4 2002 // Stating there had not been enough trades on the durum futures market to calculate a price, The Federal Agriculture Department is asking a judge to throw out a lawsuit filed by farmers who claim the government unfairly...
Silverstein Files Suit against Travelers
Jan 3 2002 // World Trade Center leaseholder Larry Silverstein is pursuing the legal battle regarding property claims resulting from the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the twin towers. World Trade Center Properties LLC, an affiliate of...
Silverstein Seeks to Broaden WTC Claims Suit
Jan 2 2002 // Silverstein Properties, the master leaseholder on the destroyed World Trade Center, has opened a new front in its ongoing battle with its insurers to recover for the loss on both of the twin towers by seeking court...
Teamsters Sue Sun Country for Not Continuing Insurance
Jan 1 2002 // The Teamsters Union has filed a federal lawsuit against Sun Country Airlines for not continuing insurance coverage for furloughed workers. According to the Pioneer Press of St. Paul, Minn., the union, representing 340...
Allstate Disappointed with EEOC Decision to Sue
Jan 1 2002 // The Allstate Corporation announced in a company release it was displeased with the Equal Opportunity Commission’s decision to file a lawsuit against its Allstate Insurance Company subsidiary, which recently...
EEOC Sues Allstate Over Age Bias
Dec 31 2001 // Allstate Corp. has been hit with a lawsuit from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The suit alleges that the company engaged in age discrimination against its agents. According to a New York Times report,...
Nationwide Settles Trademark Infringement Suit
Dec 28 2001 // Ohio-based Nationwide announced it has settled its federal trademark infringement suit against two Florida insurance companies, Nationwide Insurance Group Inc. and The Nationwide Companies. The suit, filed with the Federal...
Welcome to the 3rd Annual “Top Ten Stories of the Year”
Dec 24 2001 // In what became one of the most significant, traumatic and challenging years in U.S. history, the insurance industry, along with the rest of the nation, has had to come to terms with the terrorist attacks perpetrated...
Masonite Awarded $93 Million in ‘Bad Faith’ Case Against Wausau
Dec 20 2001 // Masonite Corporation, a former subsidiary of International Paper, was awarded $93 million in damages for an insurance dispute relating to the nationwide class action lawsuit, Naef Class v. Masonite, involving Masonite...
Chicago Employees File Lawsuit against Company
Dec 17 2001 // Ten current and former female employees of Chicago-based Combined Insurance Company of America have filed a nationwide class action lawsuit in federal court alleging a pattern or practice of sex harassment and sex...
