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Toyota Must Face Trial in Federal Sudden-Acceleration Case
Oct 8 2013 // Toyota Motor Corp. must go to trial in federal court over a lawsuit blaming a Camry driver’s accident and injuries on design defects in the car that caused it to accelerate suddenly. U.S. District Judge James Selna...
Montana Residents Suing Over Petroleum Pollution
Oct 7 2013 // Nearly 50 Cut Bank residents have filed a lawsuit alleging their properties have been polluted by petroleum from a crude oil transportation and storage facility on the eastern edge of the city. The Great Falls Tribune...
Synthetic Marijuana Death Prompts Lawsuit Against Colorado Store
Oct 7 2013 // The death of a 19-year-old who died after smoking synthetic marijuana has prompted a wrongful death suit against a Colorado Springs convenience store. Stephane Colbert alleges that her son, Nicholas A. Colbert, died in...
Allstate Wins Major Medical Fraud Lawsuit in Nevada
Oct 7 2013 // Allstate Insurance Co. received a judgment of more than $7 million following a Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations investigation nearly 10 years in the making. It is the company’s first medical fraud...
Civil Court Cases Face Possible Delays Due to Government Shutdown
Oct 4 2013 // U.S. Justice Department lawyers from New York to San Francisco are asking judges to delay civil cases as the government partially shuts down, and in Manhattan already won a halt to litigation except one trial. The Justice...
Oregon Man Hurt in Community Service Sues County
Oct 3 2013 // A man who suffered an eye injury clearing trails as part of court-ordered community service has sued Polk County, Ore. saying it failed to provide proper tools and safety equipment. The Salem Statesman Journal reported the...
Insurer, Cargo Firm Sue FAA Over Payments for Military Crash in Afghanistan
Oct 3 2013 // National Air Cargo Group Inc. and its insurer sued the U.S. for breach of contract, saying the government failed to provide reimbursement of as much as $45 million for the crash of a Boeing 747-400 on a military mission in...
Supeme Court to Hear Patent Suits Fee Award Cases
Oct 2 2013 // The U.S. Supreme Court will hear two appeals that would make it easier for targets of patent suits to collect attorneys’ fees, agreeing to consider steps that some companies say would deter groundless litigation. The...
Judge Again Refuses to Exit New York AG’s Suit Against Greenberg
Oct 1 2013 // Former AIG Inc. Chairman Maurice “Hank” Greenberg lost a second bid to have a judge remove himself from an eight-year-old lawsuit brought by the New York attorney general’s office. Greenberg in July asked...
Fired SDG&E Worker Withdraws Racially-Tinged Suit in California
Oct 1 2013 // A former utility worker has withdrawn a lawsuit that claimed San Diego Gas & Electric fired him after he complained that co-workers tied a noose to the back of his truck, used the N-word and posted racist photos in a...
Wrongful Death Suit Filed Against Colorado Bar After Triple-Fatal Crash
Sep 30 2013 // The parents of a 16-year-old Carbondale girl who was killed in a car crash have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a Glenwood Springs bar, saying it served the underage driver alcohol before the accident. The Post...
Group Sues to Block Tennessse Rules on Health Navigators
Sep 30 2013 // A health care advocacy group is suing to halt emergency rules enacted in Tennessee to require background checks for people giving advice on new insurance marketplaces going into effect next week. The lawsuit was filed...
Mississippi Insurance Chief Sues to Halt Flood Insurance Rate Hikes
Sep 29 2013 // The Mississippi Department of Insurance has filed a lawsuit against the federal government to try to block rates from increasing Oct. 1 in the National Flood Insurance Program. State Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney said...
California Fruit Producer Faces Federal Sex Harassment Suit
Sep 27 2013 // A federal lawsuit has been filed charging that a central California dried fruit producer subjected its female workers to ongoing sexual harassment. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing Madera-based...
Allstate Wins $7.7M Insurance Fraud Lawsuit in California
Sep 27 2013 // A Los Angeles County Superior Court has ruled in favor of Allstate Insurance Co. and the State of California in a lawsuit topping $7 million over fraudulent business and billing schemes by unlicensed medical and...
Lawsuit: Pollution from Louisiana Fire Making Residents Sick
Sep 26 2013 // About a dozen Slaughter, La., residents allege respiratory problems and diminished property values in a lawsuit filed in the wake of the Nov. 19 blaze that destroyed the Monolyte Laboratories Inc. chemical facility. The...
Synthetic Marijuana Death Prompts Lawsuit Against Colorado Store
Sep 25 2013 // The death of a 19-year-old who died after smoking synthetic marijuana has prompted a wrongful death suit against a Colorado Springs convenience store. Stephane Colbert alleges that her son, Nicholas A. Colbert, died in...
Closing Arguments Presented in $1B Lead Paint Case in California
Sep 24 2013 // NL Industries Inc. is one of five paint companies that presented closing arguments against a public-nuisance lawsuit by 10 California cities and counties seeking more than $1 billion to replace or contain lead paint in...
AIG, Brookfield End Litigation Over Financial Crisis
Sep 24 2013 // American International Group Inc. and Brookfield Asset Management Inc. agreed to end a 2009 lawsuit in which Brookfield sought a judge’s ruling that the insurer’s collapse triggered default provisions in...
Montana Residents Suing Over Petroleum Pollution
Sep 23 2013 // Nearly 50 Cut Bank residents have filed a lawsuit alleging their properties have been polluted by petroleum from a crude oil transportation and storage facility on the eastern edge of the city. The Great Falls Tribune...
