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Judge Tosses $322M Mississippi Asbestos Lawsuit Verdict
Jan 5 2012 // A Mississippi judge has thrown out a $322 million lawsuit verdict that had been hailed as the largest asbestos award for a single plaintiff in U.S. history. The case began to unravel last year after defense lawyers asked...
Honda Owner Bypasses Class Action in California, Hopes Others Follow
Jan 4 2012 // A woman who expected her 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid to be her dream car wants Honda to pay for not delivering the high mileage it promised. But rather than joining other owners in a class-action lawsuit, she is going solo in...
Football Players Sue Chicago Law Firm
Jan 4 2012 // Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Kyle Orton and some 20 other NFL players are suing a Chicago law firm for more than $10 million, claiming they received bad financial advice on investing in energy concerns. The 14-page...
Ruling Boosts Bond Insurer MBIA’s Fraud Suit Against BofA’s Countrywide
Jan 4 2012 // A New York state judge made it easier for the bond insurer MBIA Inc. to pursue its $1.4 billion lawsuit accusing Bank of America Corp.’s Countrywide Financial unit of fraudulently inducing it to insure risky...
Lawsuit Settled Over Death Of Utah Inmate
Jan 3 2012 // Salt Lake County in Utah has agreed to settle a federal lawsuit filed by the family of a 19-year-old Magna man who starved to death while in the county jail earlier this year. The dollar amount and other terms of the...
Securities Class Actions Steady in 2011; Surge Against Chinese Firms
Jan 3 2012 // The pace of filings of class actions under federal securities and commodity laws held relatively steady in 2011 as compared to the previous three years, according to a new report. But there has been a substantial shift in...
South Carolina Company Sues Ex-Worker Over Twitter Followers
Dec 31 2011 // An Internet company in South Carolina has sued one of its former employees, saying the worker cost the company thousands of dollars in lost business when he took 17,000 Twitter followers with him when he left the...
Jay-Z Sued by Workers Compensation Board of New York
Dec 30 2011 // Workers Compensation Board of New York filed a lawsuit against rapper Jay-Z for allegedly failing to make workers’ comp payments worth $18,000 for his domestic employees, according to a report. Entertainment news...
Settlement Reached in Elly Mae Clampett Barbie Doll Suit
Dec 30 2011 // The actress who played Elly May Clampett on the “The Beverly Hillbillies,” toymaker Mattel Inc. and CBS Consumer Products Inc. have settled a lawsuit in which Donna Douglas claimed the companies didn’t...
Attempt to Mediate West Virginia Monsanto Suit Fails
Dec 30 2011 // Another attempt to resolve a West Virginia class-action pollution lawsuit against Monsanto Co. has failed. Media outlets report that several hundred plaintiffs attended a court-ordered mediation Tuesday at a Charleston...
New York Unions Sue State Over Retiree Health Insurance Costs
Dec 29 2011 // Unions representing state workers in New York have filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the Cuomo administration challenging an increase in health insurance contributions for thousands of retirees. According to the...
Former New Mexico Hospital Exec Sued Over Missing $3.2M
Dec 29 2011 // A recently filed lawsuit accuses a former executive at a New Mexico hospital of bilking the care center out of more than $3 million by funneling the money through companies he owned in Arizona, Texas and New Mexico. The...
Suit in Mass. Bullying Case Was Settled for $225,000, Documents Show
Dec 29 2011 // A lawsuit brought by the parents of Phoebe Prince, a 15-year-old Irish immigrant in Massachusetts who committed suicide after relentless bullying, was settled for $225,000, according to documents made public Tuesday. The...
Jan. 2 Deadline Looms For People Suing Over 9/11 Health Claims
Dec 28 2011 // More than 1,600 people who filed lawsuits claiming that their health was ruined by dust and smoke from the collapsed World Trade Center must decide by Jan. 2, 2012, whether to keep fighting in court, or drop the litigation...
Unhappy Law School Grads Consider Suing Their Alma Maters
Dec 28 2011 // Many law schools try to attract more applicants by showing off how well their graduates do in the real world. The schools tell their prospective students about their graduates’ high employment and salary figures. But...
Ex-NFL Players Sue League Over Brain Injuries
Dec 26 2011 // Jamal Lewis, Dorsey Levens and two other former National Football League players have sued the league over brain injuries that they say left them struggling with medical problems years after their playing days ended. Lewis...
U.S. Airlines and Lost Luggage Liability
Dec 26 2011 // With so many people flying over the holidays, there’s a good chance some of these travelers will end up at their final destination without their luggage. Nearly four of every 1,000 passengers filed a complaint about...
E-Trade, Insurers to Settle Mortgage Class Action Lawsuit for $79M
Dec 22 2011 // E-Trade Financial and its insurers have agreed in principle to pay $79 million to settle class action lawsuits brought against the online brokerage as a result of losses in its mortgage and home equity loans portfolio in...
Utah Pollution Fighters Sue Kennecott Over Mining Dust
Dec 21 2011 // Clean air groups are making good on a promise to sue Kennecott Utah Copper over air pollution. The groups say Kennecott is kicking up too much dust at its Bingham copper mine and should curtail operations. They say...
N.Y. Court: AG Enforcement Doesn’t Pre-empt Private Securities Suits
Dec 21 2011 // Enforcement by the state attorney general against securities fraud doesn’t pre-empt private common-law claims of negligence against investment companies, New York’s top court ruled Tuesday. The Court of Appeals...
