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Court Considers Travelers Case Limiting Class Actions
Jan 28 2013 // The U.S. Supreme this month weighed whether to impose new limits on class-action lawsuits, as it reviewed whether a homeowner’s lawsuit against his insurer belonged in a state court considered friendly to...
California Wholesalers Fret Over Upcoming Legal Decision
Jan 28 2013 // A pending legal battle that could expose wholesalers in California to more lawsuits was the centerpiece of talk at the California Insurance Wholesalers Association conference in San Diego in mid-January. During the...
Former Idaho Probation Employee Alleges Gender Bias In Lawsuit
Jan 25 2013 // A former Idaho probation and parole employee is accusing her administrators of gender discrimination and creating a hostile work environment and emotional distress after her brief relationship with a co-worker turned...
Wife Files Lawsuit In Hawaii Police Restraint Death
Jan 25 2013 // A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed in the case of a Hawaii man who died while being restrained by police. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Michele Y.M.H. Torres, the wife of 37-year-old Aaron Torres, is suing the...
California AG Sues Apparel Makers in China and India over Pirated Software
Jan 24 2013 // California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris filed lawsuits on Thursday against two international apparel manufacturers for gaining an unfair advantage over American companies by using pirated software in the production of...
Father Sues Central California County Over Death Of Son
Jan 23 2013 // A father suing Fresno County claims social workers in the central California region didn’t protect his 10-year-old son who was killed by his mother’s boyfriend. Trial begins Tuesday in Joseph Hudson’s...
Match.Com Calls Vegas Woman’s Lawsuit ‘Absurd’
Jan 23 2013 // An online dating service says a Las Vegas woman has no legal basis for her lawsuit seeking $10 million after she was matched with a man who hid in her garage and brutally attacked her. Mary Kay Beckman filed suit in U.S....
Securities Fraud Class Actions Declined in 2012
Jan 23 2013 // Fewer investors are taking corporate America to court for fraud. The number of new federal securities fraud lawsuits seeking class-action status fell to a 7-year low in 2012, according to a study by Stanford Law School and...
Ohio Health Insurance Company Sues State, Feds
Jan 23 2013 // An Ohio health insurance company is suing state and federal officials over confusion in rules for a program for patients with pre-existing conditions. At issue is a high-risk insurance pool created by President Barack...
Alabama School System Sues BP Over Revenue Lost Due to Oil Spill
Jan 22 2013 // An Alabama school system on the Gulf Coast says it’s filing a claim seeking compensation for lost revenues blamed on the BP oil spill in 2009. WKRG-TV reported that attorneys for the Baldwin County public schools...
Southern California Molest Victim Sues Boy Scouts Of America
Jan 22 2013 // A man who was sexually abused by a Boy Scouts camp counselor more than a decade ago in San Diego County has sued the organization and his abuser. City News Service says the man, who’s now 29, sued last week. He and...
Nevada Woman Sues Online Dating Service Over Attack
Jan 22 2013 // A Las Vegas woman is suing an online dating service for nearly $10 million, claiming it set her up with a man who brutally attacked her. In her lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas, Mary Kay Beckman...
Supreme Court to Hear Stanford Ponzi Lawsuits, Workplace Bias Case
Jan 21 2013 // The U.S. Supreme Court last Friday agreed to hear four new cases, addressing matters as diverse as the reach of a law designed to combat chemical weapons, and whether lawyers could be sued for having once represented...
More Survivors Join Suit in Deadly Oregon Bus Crash
Jan 18 2013 // The legal problems are piling up for the Canadian tour company whose bus crashed on an icy highway in Eastern Oregon last month, killing nine passengers and injuring almost 40. An attorney who filed a lawsuit in Tacoma,...
German Court Allows Investors to Sue S&P over Lehman Insolvency
Jan 18 2013 // Germany’s Federal Court of Justice has ruled that investors can sue Standard & Poor’s for failing to adequately reflect the deteriorating financial health of Lehman Brothers in its rating assessment...
Widow Sues Psychiatrist in Colorado Theater Shootings
Jan 17 2013 // The widow of a man killed in the Colorado movie theater shootings has sued a psychiatrist who once saw suspect James Holmes as a patient, saying the doctor should have asked police to detain Holmes before the...
Chicago Closer to Settling Police Misconduct Suits for $32M
Jan 17 2013 // A Chicago City Council committee has preliminarily approved settlements in two police misconduct cases that would cost the city nearly $33 million, including $22.5 million for a California woman that apparently would be...
Suit Claims Blue Cross Of California Discriminates In HIV Cases
Jan 16 2013 // Blue Cross of California is being sued over a new program that bars AIDS patients from using local pharmacies to get their medications. The group Consumer Watchdog sued the insurer last week in San Diego on behalf of a...
Accounting Method May Expose Firms to Shareholder Suits: Study
Jan 16 2013 // Disgruntled shareholders are more likely to sue firms that use principles-based accounting standards instead of rules-based standards, according to a recent study by a University of Iowa accounting researcher. The study by...
Utah Man Accused of Killing Officer Sues Insurer
Jan 15 2013 // An Ogden man accused of killing a police officer during a drug raid at his home is suing his insurance company over its rejection of his homeowner’s damage claim stemming from the shootout. Matthew Stewart, in his...
