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Losing Bankruptcy Liability Shield Could Cost GM $2 Billion
Nov 6 2014 // Jesse Salazar III says an ignition- switch flaw in his 2008 Chevrolet HHR has depressed its value, and he wants manufacturer General Motors Co. to make it up to him. GM will argue in court filings later today that it...
Ridesharing Rivalry: Lyft Sues Uber Claiming Documents Lifted
Nov 6 2014 // Lyft Inc. escalated the battle to crack the taxi and limousine market overseas with a lawsuit accusing a former executive of defecting to Uber Technologies Inc. with proprietary documents about Lyft’s international...
Federal Safety Engineer Defended Trinity’s Highway Guardrails
Nov 5 2014 // U.S. highway safety officials defended a widely used guardrail system’s crash-worthiness even as they worried whether its design had been altered in a potentially deadly way, according to internal e-mails. Starting...
2 Small Players Settle in Louisiana ‘Big Oil’ Coastal Flooding Suit
Nov 3 2014 // Two of the smaller players in a New Orleans area flood board’s lawsuit against the oil industry over damage to the state’s coast have agreed to a settlement. An attorney for the Southeast Louisiana Flood...
Family of Driver Killed in California Bus and FedEx Crash Sues
Nov 3 2014 // The family of the bus driver killed with nine others in a fiery collision with a FedEx truck in Northern California has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the company. The Sacramento Bee reported that the lawsuit seeks...
Allman Dropped from Georgia Lawsuit Over Movie Crew Train Crash
Nov 3 2014 // Gregg Allman has been dropped from a lawsuit by the family of a film worker killed by a train during shooting of a biographical movie about the Allman Brothers Band singer, attorneys said last week. Lawyers for the parents...
1st Lawsuit Filed Over Missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370
Nov 3 2014 // Two children of a passenger on Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 have sued the company and the Malaysian government for damages, the first lawsuit to be filed over the aircraft which disappeared in March. The two Malaysian...
Southern California Docs Bribed to Use Unsafe Spine Screws, Suits Claim
Nov 3 2014 // A former Southern California hospital executive is being sued by more than two dozen people who claim he ran a scheme that bribed surgeons to implant counterfeit screws in their patients’ spines, causing pain and...
Restricting Malpractice Suits Against Physicians May Not Reduce Defensive Medicine
Nov 3 2014 // Changing laws to make it more difficult to sue physicians for medical malpractice may not reduce the amount of “defensive medicine” practiced by physicians, according to a new RAND Corp. study. Studying the...
Wind Insurer Settles Lawsuit with South Texas School District
Nov 3 2014 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association has agreed to pay nearly $8 million to settle an unpaid claims lawsuit filed by a South Texas school district, according to district court records in Cameron County. The...
The Pitfalls of Rejecting a Defense Under Texas ‘Same Facts’ Test
Nov 3 2014 // Texas law recognizes that an insurer’s reservation of rights can create a potential conflict of interest. (Northern County Mut. Ins. Co. v. Davalos, 140 S.W.3d 685 (Tex. 2004)). Although there is a potential for...
First Trial Over ‘Moldy’ Washers Ends with Win for Whirlpool
Oct 31 2014 // Michigan-based Whirlpool Corp has been found not liable by a U.S. jury in the first lawsuit to go to trial accusing the company of selling front-loading washing machines containing a design flaw that made them prone to...
Oregon Lawmakers Told By Oracle Lawsuit is a Waste Of Money
Oct 31 2014 // Oracle Corp. is appealing to Oregon legislative leaders in the legal fight over the failed Cover Oregon health insurance website. In a letter sent last week to Senate President Peter Courtney and House Speaker Tina Kotek,...
Connecticut Family Sues Over School’s Ebola Fears
Oct 30 2014 // The father of a Connecticut third-grader filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday saying his daughter has been unfairly barred from school amid fears she may have been exposed to the Ebola virus while in Africa. Ikeoluwa Opayemi...
Mediation Ordered in Suit Against Texas Guardrail Maker
Oct 30 2014 // A federal judge has ordered mediation between a Texas company and a whistleblower who won a $175 million verdict over a design change in the company’s highway guardrails. Critics say the change made it more likely...
Corps Sued over Cost of Louisiana Wetland Restoration
Oct 30 2014 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers should bear the full $2.9 billion cost of restoring wetland damage blamed on poor maintenance of the now-closed Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, Louisiana coastal restoration officials say in...
19 Lawsuits Filed Against NW Indiana Cardiologists
Oct 30 2014 // Nineteen new lawsuits and a complaint with the Indiana Attorney General’s Office have been filed against three northwestern Indiana cardiologists and a hospital, alleging that open-heart surgeries and other...
Judge: Sailors Can Sue California Company Over Fukushima Exposure
Oct 30 2014 // U.S. Navy personnel who were exposed to radiation from Japan’s wrecked Fukushima plant during earthquake and tsunami relief efforts in 2011 can sue the power station’s operator in California, a court...
EEOC Challenges Employee Wellness Penalties in Suit Against Honeywell
Oct 30 2014 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued Honeywell International Inc. to stop the company from imposing penalties on employees who refuse to undergo testing under its corporate wellness program. The...
Oklahoma Judge Throws Out Lawsuit over Earthquake, Disposal Wells
Oct 29 2014 // A judge has thrown out a lawsuit over an earthquake that injured a woman, finding that the case should instead be heard by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. In August, Prague resident Sandra Ladra filed a lawsuit...
