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Zurich to Offer Contract Litigation Insurance for Real Estate Firms
Sep 21 2011 // Zurich, a provider of property and casualty insurance in North America and globally, now offers Contract Litigation Insurance (CLI). According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the most common form of civil litigation...
Massachusetts Family Settles Last Wrongful Death Lawsuit from 9/11
Sep 21 2011 // The last wrongful death lawsuit remaining from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has been resolved with a settlement, according to an attorney for the family of a passenger on a plane that was flown by hijackers into the...
Lloyd’s Syndicate Withdraws 9/11 Lawsuit Against Saudi Arabia
Sep 20 2011 // Lloyd’s London’s Syndicate 3500 filed a notice on Monday, Sept. 19, to voluntarily dismiss its federal lawsuit against Saudi Arabia over 9/11 claims. The lawsuit, first filed on Sept. 8, had asserted that Saudi...
Court Dismisses U.S. Suit Against BP Executives, Directs Investors to File in UK
Sep 19 2011 // Current and former BP executives and directors won dismissal last week of one of several U.S.-shareholder lawsuits filed over last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill. A federal court in Houston on Sept. 15 said it was...
New Patent Reform Law Aims to Reduce Backlog, Curb Lawsuits
Sep 19 2011 // President Barack Obama signed into law a patent overhaul bill Friday that backers say will curb frivolous lawsuits and help the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office do the hiring needed to clear a huge backlog of...
Mortgage Lawsuits Target Individuals as Well as Banks
Sep 19 2011 // By suing 131 individuals in its effort to recover losses on $200 billion of mortgage debt that went sour, the federal agency overseeing mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is doing one thing that the U.S. government...
Damages Ruling May Be Pivotal in BP Gulf Oil Case
Sep 19 2011 // A key court ruling in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill litigation could change the landscape in the massive case – encouraging more plaintiffs to sue, or spurring the parties to make a deal to resolve what could be a...
Alabama Court: Woman Can Sue Over Fetus Death
Sep 19 2011 // The Alabama Supreme Court ruled recently that a Birmingham-area woman can sue over the death of her unborn baby in a car wreck in 2007 even though the fetus couldn’t have lived outside the womb, a decision that...
Insurers Try to Revive 9/11 Suit Against Saudis
Sep 19 2011 // Insurers that paid out millions after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are trying to revive a lawsuit that accuses Saudi Arabia of funneling money to al-Qaida. A U.S. appeals court in New York had ruled in 2008 that the...
Investor’s Lawsuit Claims HP Executives Misled
Sep 16 2011 // Hewlett-Packard Co. and top executives misled investors for months before unveiling a series of major decisions, such as the demise of the TouchPad, that hammered its shares, a shareholder alleged in a proposed...
Lloyd’s Syndicate Sues Saudi Arabia for $215M Over 9/11 Claims
Sep 15 2011 // Lloyd’s of London’s Syndicate 3500 filed a federal lawsuit against Saudi Arabia, several Saudi charity and financial organizations and prominent Saudi individuals over 9/11 terror attacks. The insurer said...
Georgia Court Allows Family’s Suit Against Son’s Psychiatrist
Sep 14 2011 // The top court in the U.S. state of Georgia has allowed the family of a man who stabbed his mother to death in a psychotic rage to file a medical malpractice lawsuit against his psychiatrist, settling a long-running debate...
Insurer Asks Court to Move Ahead with Mississippi Judicial Bribery Case
Sep 12 2011 // A federal judge plans to talk with attorneys this month about how to move forward with a seven-year-old lawsuit linked to a corruption case that sent one of Mississippi’s most prominent lawyers and two former judges...
Mississippi Wrongful Death Suit Alleges Hate Crime
Sep 8 2011 // The family of a black man who authorities say was run over by a white teenager in a truck in Jackson, Mississippi has filed a wrongful death lawsuit over the alleged hate crime. The lawsuit accuses seven white teenagers of...
Mortgage Lawsuits Target Individuals As Well As Banks
Sep 8 2011 // By suing 131 individuals in its effort to recover losses on $200 billion of mortgage debt that went sour, the federal agency overseeing mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is doing one thing that the U.S. government...
Arlington, Texas Officials Settle Taser Suit for $25,000
Sep 7 2011 // City officials in Arlington, Texas, have settled a lawsuit for $25,000 after a police officer mistakenly used a Taser twice while pursuing the wrong man. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that the lawsuit stemmed from...
Nebraska County Must Pay $407K in Car Crash Lawsuit
Sep 7 2011 // Furnas County, Neb., has been ordered to pay more than $407,000 to a man injured in a car accident. The Lincoln Journal Star reports that U.S. District Judge Laurie Smith Camp awarded nearly $679,000 to Juston Pohl. But...
Regulator Defends Suit Against Lenders Over Mortgage-Backed Securities
Sep 7 2011 // The U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency said Tuesday it decided to file lawsuits against 17 financial institutions last week because the firms misrepresented the mortgages in securities filings. “At the heart of the...
EEOC Settles North Dakota Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
Sep 6 2011 // A judge approved a $1 million settlement for 17 women who said they were sexually harassed by a manager at an Applebee’s restaurant, an agreement believed to be the largest of its kind in North Dakota history, a...
States Offer U.S. Banks Deal Over Mortgage Lawsuits: Financial Times
Sep 6 2011 // Big U.S. banks in talks with state prosecutors to settle claims of improper mortgage practices have been offered a deal that may limit their legal liabilities in return for a multibillion-dollar payment, the Financial...
