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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...
Air France, Insurers Sue Continental
Sep 28 2000 // Air France and La Réunion Aérienne (LRA), the consortium of insurers that covered the Concorde, that crashed outside of Paris on July 25th, killing all aboard, have filed suit in a French Commercial Court against...
Arthur Gallagher Sued for “Kickbacks”, Contingent Commissions
Sep 27 2000 // The Village of Orland Hills, Ill., sued Arthur J. Gallagher last week, charging that the broker took “kickbacks” and violated the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. The alleged...
Concorde Crash Lawyers Near Filing Lawsuits in U.S.
Sep 27 2000 // The two German lawyers representing the families of victims of the Concorde air disaster are reportedly close to filing compensation claims in the U.S. While settlement talks with Air France are continuing, the differences...
Unistar Charter to Be Sold;Lawsuit Action Heats Up
Sep 25 2000 // Plans are underway for Unistar Insurance Co.’s charter to be sold to Agricultural Workers Mutual Auto Insurance Co., a 52-year-old mutual based in Fort Worth for $50,000. Negotiation of the sale began in the weeks...
An Agent’s Nightmare: Who Knew Forwarding Lawsuit Papers Could Get So Sticky
Sep 25 2000 // Insurance agencies mediate between insurance companies and policyholders all the time. One of the most important focal points for this kind of activity has to do with forwarding suit papers. An insured gets sued. He hands...
Mercer Hit With Harassment Suit
Sep 21 2000 // The pair has filed suit against Mercer and its parent, Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc, seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages. The complaint, filed in Mercer County Superior Court in Trenton, alleges the two...
Massachusetts Sues Four Insurers
Sep 21 2000 // The Boston Globe reported today that Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly has sued four health-insurance companies for denying coverage to college students who were suffering from preexisting medical...
Connecticut Files Class Action Against HMOs
Sep 11 2000 // Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal filed a federal class-action lawsuit last week against four major health insurers, charging the companies continually put profits over patients. The suit, apparently the...
General American Agrees to $55 Million Settlement with Missouri DOI
Sep 8 2000 // The Missouri Department of Insurance and General American Life Insurance Co. of St. Louis have agreed in principle to an estimated $55 million settlement for policyholders and a $120,000 fine for alleged deceptive sales...
Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against the Chubb Corp.
Sep 1 2000 // The law firm of Milberg Weiss Bershard Hynes and Lerach announced that a class action lawsuit was filed on August 31, 2000 in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey on behalf of purchasers of The...
