Latest Lawsuits Headlines
All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
MOLD in Buildings
Nov 20 2000 // Creates New Frontier in Construction Defect Litigation, Definition of Pollution At the center of what could become one of the fastest growing areas of both construction defect litigation and toxic tort litigation is an...
Coca-Cola To Pay $192.5M to Settle Racial Discrimination Suit
Nov 17 2000 // A racial discrimination lawsuit brought by black employees of Coca-Cola Co. has ended in settlement as Coke agreed yesterday to pay $192.5 million. This figure includes $114 million in cash, $43.5 million to adjust...
Allstate New Jersey Suit Alleges Medical Providers Set up Sham Cos.
Nov 16 2000 // Allstate New Jersey Insurance Co. filed suit in Morris County Superior Court against 39 defendants alleging violations of the New Jersey Fraud Prevention Act, the New Jersey RICO statute, and several sections of the New...
Liberty Mutual Suit Accuses New Jersey Chiropractor of Intricate Fraud Scheme
Nov 16 2000 // Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. served summons and complaints this week against Scott Greenberg, D.C., a New Jersey chiropractor whom the company claims defrauded personal injury protection benefits through an intricate...
U.S. Tobacco Firms Sued by EU – Accused of Smuggling Cigarettes
Nov 7 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...
Legal Malpractice Insurance
Nov 6 2000 // There are a huge number of lawyers in Texas. Many of them are not very good. For every lawyer there is probably at least one paralegal. Many of them are as proficient as the lawyers they assist, though usually less...
Liberty Mutual Files Suit Against Psychological Group
Nov 2 2000 // Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. has served summons and complaints against New Jersey’s Spring Lake Psychological Group, and its owners Warren L. Goldberg and Carmela Gutierrez, for allegedly engaging in a fraudulent...
Decision in Lloyd’s Lawsuit Expected
Oct 30 2000 // The judge’s decision in the Jaffray case against Lloyd’s is expected within the next two weeks. The suit by some 200 “Names” seeks damages for fraud related to their recruitment as investors by...
Today’s AGING Workforce is Ripe with Potential for Age Discrimination Claims
Oct 30 2000 // The 1990s were a time of turbulence for businesses as employers faced corporate restructuring, seasonal layoffs and reductions in force (RIF). The changing workplace relationships brought about both an increase in age...
Former West Virginia Prudential Agent Sues over Company’s Alleged Quotas
Oct 27 2000 // A former Prudential agent sued the insurer in a West Virginia Circuit Court Wednesday, alleging the company’s quota system drove him out of business. Billy T. Bush Jr. became a Prudential insurance agent in 1992 and...
WACO CO. FACES VIATICAL SUIT
Oct 23 2000 // A Waco-based company offering viatical settlements is the focus of an investors’ class action suit filed by an Oklahoma City attorney. The suit was filed against Life Partners by William Federman, who believes the...
CIGNA, ACE CLASS ACTION
Oct 23 2000 // A central Pennsylvania company has filed a class action complaint against insurance giants CIGNA and ACE for their refusal to pay dividends on a retention dividend workers compensation policy originally purchased from...
Class Action Filed Against CIGNA, ACE
Oct 11 2000 // A central Pennsylvania company has filed a class action complaint against insurance giants CIGNA and ACE for their refusal to pay dividends on a retention dividend workers compensation policy originally purchased from...
Fresno School District Awarded $13 Million In Bad Faith Suit
Oct 11 2000 // A 12-member jury awarded the Fresno Unified School District $13 million in punitive damages Oct. 6, in its bad faith suit against Coregis Insurance Company, a GE Capital Company, and subsidiary of General Electric Co....
An Agent’s Nightmare Continues
Oct 9 2000 // Editor’s Note: This is the second part of a story that appeared in our Sept. 25 issue. The first story described the facts of the case, up to the point of verdict and judgment. This column describes the verdict and...
First Concorde Lawsuit Filed in U.S.
Oct 2 2000 // Lawyers for the family of one of the German victims of the Concorde crash outside Paris on July 25th have filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court in Miami Florida seeking damages from Air France and other companies...
Mold Claims Create a New Frontier in Constuction Defect Litigation
Oct 2 2000 // Mold. An extremely common organism, it’s found in veritably every home and building. Now it’s at the center of what could become one of the fastest growing areas of both construction defect litigation and toxic...
Class Action Suits Filed Against Insurance Management Solutions
Sep 29 2000 // Two class action suits, one filed by Cauley & Geller, the other by Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, have been filed against Insurance Management Solutions Group on behalf of all individuals and institutional...
