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Not All States Sign $25B Settlement Giving Banks Lawsuit Protection
Feb 7 2012 // A proposed mortgage settlement in the works for more than a year will move forward with more than 40 states joining the deal before a Monday deadline, Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller said in a statement. States had been...
Investors Suing Bank of America Win Class-Action Status
Feb 6 2012 // Investors suing Bank of America Corp. won class-action status for their lawsuit accusing the bank of fraudulently misleading them about the 2008 takeover of Merrill Lynch & Co. and the size of Merrill’s losses...
N.Y. Attorney General Sues Banks in Foreclosure Effort
Feb 6 2012 // New York’s attorney general on Friday, Feb. 3, accused some of the nation’s largest banks of deceit and fraud in using an electronic mortgage registry that he said puts homeowners at a disadvantage in...
Oregon Jury Takes Second Look At Tobacco Suit Damages
Feb 6 2012 // A Portland jury is reconsidering a $100 million damage award against Philip Morris in a suit over low-tar cigarettes that goes back more than a decade. In 2002, a jury awarded $150 million in punitive damages after finding...
Chubb Sues Actress Marisa Tomei Over $129K Damage in NYC Apartment
Feb 6 2012 // Three insurance companies have sued Academy Award-winning actress Marisa Tomei in a New York court last week, seeking $128,755 in damages. Pacific Indemnity Company, Federal Insurance Company and Vigilant Insurance Company...
Muslim Guard Gets $465,000 in California Harassment Suit
Feb 6 2012 // A San Francisco, Calif., jury has awarded $465,000 to a Muslim security guard who says his co-workers and supervisors called him a terrorist and an al-Qaida member. The San Francisco Chronicle reported jurors added...
Employers’ Alert
Feb 6 2012 // Leading employment law firm Seyfarth Shaw LLP has issued its annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report. The report, written by Seyfarth Shaw partner Gerald L. Maatman Jr., examines 976 class action decisions rendered...
Proactive Risk Management of Intellectual Property: Crucial to the Insurance Professional’s E&O
Feb 6 2012 // Now more than ever, the insurance professional’s ability to create a proactive risk management plan for clients is crucial to success. Insurance professionals handle many types of insurance policies. In fact,...
Judge Certifies Investor Class Action Against Goldman Sachs
Feb 3 2012 // Goldman Sachs Group Inc. was ordered by a federal judge to face a securities class-action lawsuit accusing it of defrauding investors about a 2006 offering of securities backed by risky mortgage loans from a now-defunct...
Insurer: Penn State Policy Limits Lawsuit Coverage
Feb 3 2012 // Penn State’s insurer wants a judge to determine if it has to provide coverage or pay for defense costs in a lawsuit over alleged child sex abuse by former football coach Jerry Sandusky, a newspaper reported...
Los Angeles Sues Over $95M Losses To City’s Pensions
Feb 3 2012 // The Los Angeles city attorney has sued a major financial institution, alleging its investment practices cost the city’s pension fund $95 million. The lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges that Northern Trust Corporation...
Woman Takes Honda to Small-Claims, Wins Big
Feb 3 2012 // This Jan. 3, 2012 file photo shows Heather Peters, who says her 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid never achieved the 50 mpg Honda claimed in its advertising, presenting her case in small claims court in Torrrance, Calif. This unique...
Companies Sue over Michigan Fireworks Insurance Requirement
Feb 3 2012 // Several fireworks companies are suing over what they call Michigan’s excessive insurance requirements under a new state law. The companies filed suit on Feb. 1 in Detroit federal court seeking to overturn a...
HIV-Positive Man Who Sued Atlanta Police Gets New Hearing
Feb 3 2012 // A federal appeals court this week granted a new hearing to a 40-year-old man who claimed the Atlanta Police Department rejected his job application because he has HIV. The ruling was a victory for gay rights advocates and...
Judge Allows South Carolina Company’s Twitter Lawsuit Against Employee
Feb 2 2012 // A South Carolina company’s lawsuit accusing a former employee of costing it hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost business when he took Twitter followers can go forward, a federal judge has ruled. On Monday, San...
Kodak Employee Sues Company Directors Over Stock
Feb 2 2012 // An Eastman Kodak employee filed a civil lawsuit against Kodak’s board members and other fiduciaries of the photography companies’ retirement plans, saying they breached their duties as the company was spiraling...
Brokerage Schwab Hit with Complaint Over Client Lawsuit Waivers
Feb 2 2012 // Wall Street’s own watchdog filed a complaint against Charles Schwab Corp. on Wednesday accusing the online brokerage of requiring customers to waive their rights to pursue class actions against the firm, a violation...
Utah Family Sues Pharmaceutical Company
Jan 31 2012 // The family of a late Hyde Park woman has sued a pharmaceutical company, claiming it made a faulty pain-relief patch that caused her death. Logan’s Herald Journal reported family of Janine Ward filed the lawsuit...
Arkansas Family Sues Driver, Company Over Teen’s Death
Jan 31 2012 // The family of an Arkansas teenager who died after being hit by a tractor-trailer in Texas last year has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the driver of the truck and his employer. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District...
Court Delays Ruling On Honda Hybrid Suit
Jan 30 2012 // An unusual small claims lawsuit by a Honda hybrid owner took another complicated turn last week with additional arguments that prompted a commissioner to delay a ruling for more consideration. Superior Court Commissioner...
