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Arkansas Lawsuits Test Fracking Wastewater Link to Quakes
Aug 27 2013 // Tony Davis, a 54-year-old construction worker in central Arkansas, said he welcomed the boom in natural gas drilling that brought jobs and new businesses to his hometown starting about a decade ago. But that was before the...
Family of North Carolina Football Player Killed by ATV Sues School, Coach
Aug 27 2013 // The estate of a 15-year-old Asheville, N.C., football player who died two years ago after he was struck by an all-terrain vehicle at Roberson High School is suing the school’s football coach and the Buncombe County...
California Assembly Panel Passes Bill On Sex Abuse Lawsuits
Aug 27 2013 // Some victims of childhood sexual abuse would have one more year to file civil lawsuits against private or nonprofit organizations that employed their alleged abusers under a bill that passed a key legislative committee...
Do Big Malpractice Awards Really Increase Medical Costs?
Aug 25 2013 // A jury in one of New York’s most conservative counties recently returned a $130 million verdict in a medical-malpractice case, the second-largest in the state’s history. Lawyers for the losing hospital decried...
Questionable Software Patents Main Reason for Rise in Lawsuits: GAO
Aug 23 2013 // Software patents are the biggest reason behind a rise in litigation over inventions, especially against companies that use the technology, the U.S. Government Accountability Office found. Its study, required under a law...
Assured Guaranty, JPMorgan Settle Mortgage Litigation
Aug 22 2013 // Assured Guaranty Ltd. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. agreed to settle lawsuits filed by the bond insurer accusing the bank’s EMC Mortgage and Bear Stearns units of making misrepresentations about mortgage-backed...
Retired Players Sue NFL Over Use of Images in Films
Aug 22 2013 // The National Football League was sued by 10 retired players, including Curley Culp and John Riggins, who claim the NFL unfairly violates their rights of publicity by using their images to sell NFL Films products. Five Hall...
South Carolina Court Upholds Exclusions Blocking Contractor Suit Against Subcontractor
Aug 22 2013 // South Carolina’s high court has found that a general contractor cannot sue a subcontractor for faulty workmanship in instances where the subcontractor is in essence doing work on the contractor’s behalf. The...
Red River Diversion Opponents Sue Army Corps
Aug 21 2013 // Opponents of a planned project to divert the Red River around Fargo, N.D., and Moorhead, Minn., have sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in federal court. The lawsuit filed by opponents south of the metro area accuses...
Family Of DUI Victims Sues Montana Bar
Aug 21 2013 // A Montana woman whose mother and daughter died in a drunken driving crash has filed a lawsuit against a Helena bar, alleging the driver was served alcohol shortly before the crash, despite being visibly intoxicated. The...
Axa Art Insurance Corp.’s Subrogation Lawsuit Seeks $1.5M From Christie’s
Aug 20 2013 // Axa Art Insurance Corp. filed a subrogation lawsuit claiming that the famed auction house Christie’s in New York failed to properly store a fine art collection that belonged to Axa’s insured, the Piatigorsky...
Louisiana Flood Board Votes to Continue Oil, Gas Lawsuit
Aug 20 2013 // A New Orleans-area flood control board has refused to back down from its lawsuit seeking damages from nearly 100 oil and gas companies over coastal erosion allegedly caused by dredging and digging for canals and pipelines....
Idaho Man Sues Experian, Says Credit Report Wrong
Aug 19 2013 // Jose Luis Calderon says he had the cash to buy a car, but he decided to get an auto loan so he could build up a credit history. It wasn’t until he was turned down that the 27-year-old Nampa man realized he already...
Penn State Settles First of Sandusky Sex Abuse Lawsuits
Aug 19 2013 // Pennsylvania State University agreed to settle the first of 31 suits filed in the sex-abuse scandal involving ex-football coach Jerry Sandusky, with about 25 more set to settle, lawyers in the resolved case said. The...
Information Technology and Risk Complexity
Aug 19 2013 // In today’s legal environment, nearly every company faces some kind of litigation risk. With the growing ubiquity of technology in not just the corporate market, but the consumer marketplace as well, the risk for...
Florida Court Reduces Damages in College Football Player Wrongful Death Suit
Aug 18 2013 // A ruling by a Florida appeals court on Friday has reduced a $10 million damage award to $200,000 in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a University of Central Florida football player who died following...
U.S. Asks Court to Block Bernanke Testimony in Greenberg’s AIG Lawsuit
Aug 18 2013 // The U.S. Justice Department on Friday asked an appeals court to reverse a judge’s ruling last month that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke must testify in a lawsuit about American International Group Inc.’s...
Salvation Army to Be Named in Philadelphia Building Collapse Lawsuits
Aug 16 2013 // The Salvation Army will become the latest defendant in litigation over a deadly Philadelphia building collapse. Six people died inside a Salvation Army thrift store when an adjacent building being demolished collapsed on...
DUI Victim Family Sues Oregon Restaurants
Aug 16 2013 // The family of a Cottage Grove, Ore. woman who was killed by a drunken driver is suing the man and two restaurants that served him alcohol. In the suit filed in Lane County Circuit Court, the family of Theresa Grondona is...
Family of Man Killed by Sandy Tree Sues NYC
Aug 15 2013 // Relatives of a man who was killed when a tree crashed on his house during Superstorm Sandy has filed a lawsuit against New York City. The family of Anthony Laino tells the Daily News that the tragedy could have been...
