Latest Lawsuits Headlines
All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Insurance Co. Sues Macaulay Culkin
Jan 2 2001 // Macaulay Culkin has been in a suit filed by Travelers Property Casualty seeking monetary retribution for money it paid to tenants who suffered losses in a fire that began in the Culkin family’s high-rise apartments...
Lawsuits Loom For Mobile Phones
Dec 29 2000 // The controversy over whether mobile telephones cause brain damage, particularly tumors, may be about to enter the legal arena. Media reports indicate that Baltimore lawyer, and Orioles owner, Peter Angelos plans to file a...
Principal Settles Class Action
Dec 29 2000 // Des Moines, Iowa-based Principal Life Insurance Co. has settled for $374.2 million a class action lawsuit alleging its agents engaged in sales fraud. The suit alleged that agents for Principal used misleading sales...
New Classes of Megatort Claims Seen Confronting Industry
Dec 28 2000 // Potential claims from asbestos, pollution and tobacco will continue to challenge the insurance industry in coming years, panelists told the Casualty Actuarial Society annual meeting in Washington, D.C. After stabilizing in...
Insurer Wins Out in Y2K Lawsuit
Dec 22 2000 // American Guarantee, a Zurich affiliate, does not have to cover $138 million of the money Xerox Corp. poured into Y2K preventative upgrades, a New York State trial court ruled on Dec. 20. New York Supreme Court Justice...
Former Agents Sue Allstate Insurance Co.
Dec 21 2000 // Five former Allstate Insurance Co. agents who worked in Florida, Georgia and Oregon, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against the insurer, seeking payment for three years of overtime wages. According to a report from...
Calif. Court Rules Legal Malpractice Suits Can Extend to Public Defenders
Dec 21 2000 // The California Supreme Court ruled on Dec. 18 that public defenders can face malpractice lawsuits, much the same as private defense lawyers. Public defenders, who represent the poor, do not have the same immunity to...
Insurer Groups File Another Lawsuit Against SB 1899
Dec 21 2000 // Another lawsuit was filed yesterday in Los Angeles County Superior Court against SB 1899. Authored by Senate President Pro Tem John Burton (D-San Francisco), and signed into law by Governor Davis, SB 1899 allows certain...
Allstate Files $14.5 Million Lawsuit Against Chicago Area Medical Providers, Lawyers
Dec 21 2000 // Allstate Insurance Co. filed suit in Cook County Circuit Court Wednesday, seeking $14.5 million in damages stemming from alleged insurance fraud. The suit claims that Chicago area medical providers bilked the company out...
Singapore Insurer Sues Boeing Over SilkAir Crash
Dec 18 2000 // Singapore Aviation & General Insurance Co. filed a complaint in Federal District Court in New York to recover damages from Boeing and several other companies it claims to be responsible for the 1997 crash of a Silk...
ACE Sues CIGNA Over P/C Acqusition
Dec 14 2000 // Bermuda based ACE Ltd. is unhappy about several aspects of its acquisition of CIGNA’s property/casualty business , and has filed suit in Federal Court in New York to recover a total of $218 million in damages. At...
Calif. Court Limits Negligence Suits Against Builders
Dec 13 2000 // Insurers, as well as builders, were victorious last week on the construction defect litigation battlegrounds. The California Supreme Court ruled on Dec. 4 that homeowners cannot sue builders for negligence unless there has...
Judge’s Dismissal of U.S. Lawsuits Conditioned on Holocaust Payments
Dec 12 2000 // U.S. Judge Michael Mukasey ordered a conditional dismissal of lawsuits brought by Holocaust survivors and their families against several German insurers, who have failed to pay claims from Nazi-era insurance policies. The...
Insurers File Challenge To OSHA Ergo Rule
Dec 11 2000 // The Nov. 14 release of Occupational Safety Health Administration’s (OSHA) new ergonomic rule, approved by President Clinton, has sparked one of the largest backlashes in the 30-year history of the organization....
Concorde Insurers Name Continental in French Lawsuit
Nov 30 2000 // La Réunion Aérienne, the insurance pool with primary coverage for losses resulting from the crash of the Concorde near Paris last July, has officially launched a recovery action against Continental Airlines...
Seibels Bruce Group, Graward Settle Litigation
Nov 30 2000 // The Seibels Bruce Group has reached a settlement with the sellers of Graward General Companies related to an acquisition dispute. In the settlement, Graward agreed to cancel four Subordinated Purchase Notes dated May 1,...
Yates Accepts Out of Court Settlement in Suit Against Chaix
Nov 28 2000 // Jim Yates, president of Santa Ana-based Yates & Associates Insurance Services, has agreed to accept an out of court settlement in the lawsuit against Newport Beach-based R.E. Chaix & Associates Insurance...
Artisan Contractor Class Stays Strong – Despite Construction Defect Litigation, Hardening Market and
Nov 27 2000 // The building boom across much of the country resulting from nearly 10 years of economic expansion has also resulted in a business boom for artisan contractors. As individuals in some of the country’s hottest markets...
Reach of Contruction Defect Litigation Extends Beyond Condos
Nov 27 2000 // Editor’s note: Following the cover story “Cracks in the Stucco: Construction Defect Litigation Spreads” in our July 24, 2000, issue, several readers called in to share stories of how the problem of...
U.S. TOBACCO FIRMS SUED BY EU
Nov 20 2000 // Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds were named in a complaint by the European Union’s governing commission for complicity in the smuggling of thousands of container loads of cigarettes without paying the applicable...
