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Ex-Utah Cop Sues Over Firing Over Training Allegations
Dec 11 2012 // A former Brigham City, Utah police officer is suing the city after being fired over alleged off-hours contact with a female officer he was training. Ronnie Aldridge, in his lawsuit filed in October in 1st District Court,...
Gas Marketers Sue To Block Wyoming School’s Fuel Sales
Dec 11 2012 // Petroleum retailers are suing a western Wyoming school district for selling compressed natural gas as fuel. The Colorado Wyoming Petroleum Marketers Association argues that Sublette County School District 1 in Pinedale is...
Woman Sues New Mexico Sheriff After Crash Over DWI Claim
Dec 11 2012 // A woman injured in a crash is suing a northern New Mexico sheriff over claims he failed to hold a drunken driver accountable in her accident. The Las Vegas Optic reported that 28-year-old Mora County Josephine Torres in a...
Study: More Cancer Suits May Cost New Mexico Millions
Dec 11 2012 // New Mexico may have to pay as much as $120 million for an estimated 101 new medical malpractice claims that could be part of a potential class action lawsuit, according to a new study. The Albuquerque Journal reported that...
Jury Awards Montana Company $28.4M in Software Lawsuit
Dec 10 2012 // A federal court jury has awarded a Missoula company $28.4 million in a lawsuit against a national bus company over the licensing of software that helps school districts more efficiently plan and run bus routes. Education...
Judge Names Lead Plaintiffs in Facebook IPO Claim
Dec 7 2012 // A group of investors including state pension funds in North Carolina and Arkansas will be the lead plaintiffs in securities lawsuits arising out of Facebook Inc.’s $16 billion initial public offering, a U.S. judge...
Utah Sues BP Amoco For Dipping Into State Fund
Dec 6 2012 // Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff is suing oil giant BP Amoco for collecting state money to clean up spills from leaky storage tanks under service stations. Shurtleff says BP had its own insurance policies for cleanups...
Mediation In Montana Church Abuse Lawsuits Set For April
Dec 6 2012 // Attorneys for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Helena, a Montana order of nuns and hundreds of alleged sex-abuse victims said this week they will try to hammer out a settlement during a mediation conference in April,...
Ohio Senate Panel Advances Asbestos Lawsuit Bill
Dec 6 2012 // An Ohio Senate committee advanced a bill on Dec. 4 aimed at curbing duplicate lawsuits over on-the-job asbestos exposure in a state with one of the largest backlogs of such cases in the nation. The bill cleared the...
South Carolina Firm Settles Suit Over Value of Twitter Followers
Dec 6 2012 // A South Carolina Internet company has settled a lawsuit with one of its former employees over the value of Twitter followers. Attorneys for Noah Kravitz said that their client had settled a suit filed against him by...
Spotlight: CIWA Looking for Resurgence in Changing Market, Lawsuit
Dec 4 2012 // The California Insurance Wholesalers Association is in prime position to benefit from trends and events that its board members expect to be unfolding in the next year or two – including an improved surplus lines outlook...
From Ashes of Penn. Estate Rises a Lawsuit for $20M Insurance Proceeds
Dec 4 2012 // The 53-page document reads more like a screenplay than a lawsuit. If Jerald Batoff’s claim is true, that’s how it may end up. More than seven months after his historic Main Line home, a 24,000-square-foot...
Oregon Insurers Sue Landowners in Ashland Fire
Dec 3 2012 // Insurance companies that paid $1.7 million to six homeowners in a fire blamed on a homeless Ashland, Ore. man have sued the owners of a vacant lot where the fire started. The suit alleges the owners had been told vagrants...
Utah Woman Injured in Carousel Accident Sues for $300K
Dec 3 2012 // A Washington City, Utah woman injured when a panel fell from the ceiling of a St. George carousel is suing for more than $300,000 in damages. A lawsuit claims Linda Williamson suffered head, neck, eye and back injuries...
Teacher Sues California School District Over Breastfeeding
Dec 3 2012 // A former Carmel school teacher accuses school officials in a lawsuit of failing to accommodate her breastfeeding schedule. Sarah Ann Lewis Boyle has sued the Carmelo School, where she worked, and the Carmel Unified School...
Arizona City Agrees to Settle Police Shooting Lawsuit
Dec 3 2012 // Flagstaff has agreed to a $225,000 settlement for the family of a 78-year-old Arizona man killed by police as he held his son at bay with a shotgun. Kenneth Mitchell was holding the gun to his son’s head after the...
N.Y. Law Firm Nelson Levine Hires 2 Attorneys From Harleysville, MetLife
Nov 30 2012 // Targeting strategic expansion, Nelson Levine de Luca & Hamilton, a New York-headquartered national law firm serving the insurance industry, announced that Louis H. Kozloff has joined as a partner in the Insurance...
Lawsuit: Fedex Fires Utah Driver Over Russian Accent
Nov 30 2012 // A Utah truck driver alleges FedEx fired him because of his Russian accent, even though he offered to appear before corporate higher-ups to demonstrate his English-speaking abilities. Ismail Aliyev has filed a federal...
U.S. Judge Allows Civil Suits in Meningitis Outbreak to Proceed
Nov 30 2012 // A federal judge in Boston on Wednesday allowed civil suits against the pharmacy at the heart of the deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak to proceed and noted that any criminal case would have priority in gathering evidence. An...
County May Sue Bankrupt Southern California City
Nov 29 2012 // County supervisors have voted to join the long list of San Bernardino, Calif. creditors and may sue the bankrupt city. The city 60 miles east of Los Angeles filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection in August after...
