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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...
Damages Ruling May Be Pivotal in BP Gulf Oil Case
Sep 6 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...
Legislative Changes Aim to Limit Texas Windstorm Lawsuits
Sep 5 2011 // Legislative changes to the operation of Texas’ primary property insurer in coastal areas that go into effect Sept. 28, 2011, include an increased focus on mediation and arbitration of disputed windstorm claims and a...
Marsh Executive Sues Spitzer
Sep 5 2011 // Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has been hit with a $60 million libel lawsuit by a former Marsh & McLennan Cos. executive over a column posted on Slate.com concerning an insurance bid-rigging scandal. William...
Most Doctors Sued Sometime in Career
Sep 5 2011 // A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine says that one in 14 doctors faces a malpractice suit every year. Moreover, almost every physician will face a malpractice suit — or more than one — during...
Ex-workers Sue San Diego for Pension Fraud
Sep 2 2011 // A lawsuit filed Friday seeks millions of dollars in damages for more than 300 current and former city workers accusing the city of San Diego of pension fraud. It stems from demands that the workers, including retirees, pay...
Judge Allows Mississippi Suit Challenging Healthcare Law to Continue
Sep 2 2011 // A federal judge will allow a lawsuit filed in Mississippi challenging part of the Obama administration’s health care law to continue. U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett, in a ruling issued Aug. 29, denied the Obama...
Lawsuit Claims Microsoft Tracks Customers Without Consent
Sep 1 2011 // Microsoft allegedly tracks the location of its mobile customers even after users request that tracking software be turned off, according to a new lawsuit. The proposed class action, filed in a Seattle federal court...
Insurance Lawsuits to Follow Irene
Aug 31 2011 // As the water recedes from Hurricane Irene, lawyers are expecting disputes over insurance coverage to pour in. The biggest fights will stem from arguments over property damage and whether it resulted from wind or water,...
AIG Suit Against Bank of America Raises Disclosure Issues
Aug 31 2011 // Top Bank of America Corp. lawyers knew as early as January that American International Group Inc. was prepared to sue the bank for more than $10 billion, seven months before the lawsuit was filed, according to sources...
Pending Patent Reform May Not Bring Much Lawsuit Relief
Aug 29 2011 // U.S. Congress is tantalizingly close to passing patent reform that President Barack Obama has hailed as an economic booster, but the legislation is expected to do little to divert money away from patent litigation and...
California Regulator Wins Case Involving Sale of Life Insurer
Aug 26 2011 // A California state appeals court has upheld a state regulators’ refusal to approve the sale of a California insurance company to a French-owned company. The decision upheld Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones’...
Louisiana’s Suit Against Katrina Whistleblowers Dismissed
Aug 26 2011 // A federal judge on Aug. 24 dismissed a lawsuit by the state of Louisiana accusing two self-described whistleblowers of illegally copying and circulating documents containing confidential information about homeowners...
Massachusetts Man Awarded Damages in Suit Over Art Heist
Aug 26 2011 // A U.S. jury has found in favor of the plaintiff in a Massachusetts lawsuit filed in connection with a 1978 art heist. The jury awarded plaintiff Michael Bakwin more than $3.1 million in damages on Tuesday. The artwork was...
U. of South Alabama Sued Over Football Program Firing
Aug 26 2011 // A former employee of the University of South Alabama football program has accused the school in a federal lawsuit of firing him on trumped-up sexual harassment violations. The suit by Barrett Parker names the university...
Costco ‘Slurpee Slip and Fall’ Suit Stays in New York
Aug 26 2011 // A 74-year-old woman who said she was injured after falling in a Costco store in Florida beat back the retailer’s effort to move the case to that state because it was too much trouble to defend itself in New...
