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Ohio Uninsured Motorist Litigation Tied to Money for Charities
Jan 19 2011 // An Ohio insurance company in late 2010 successfully challenged a class action lawsuit involving uninsured motorist/underinsured motorist (UM/UIM) coverage in a case that played prominently in a campaign to change the way...
University of Alabama Sued Over Faculty Shootings
Jan 19 2011 // Relatives of two teachers shot and killed during a faculty meeting last year at the University of Alabama in Huntsville have filed lawsuits claiming school administrators’ failure to follow safety rules contributed...
Utility Ameren Missouri Fighting for $30M Insurance Recovery
Jan 18 2011 // Ameren Missouri continues its fight to recover more than $30 million from one of its insurers five years after a section of the utility’s Taum Sauk reservoir collapsed and sent more than a billion gallons of water...
Plaintiffs’ Lawyers in BP Litigation Fighting Over Claims Fund
Jan 18 2011 // Plaintiffs’ lawyers battling BP Plc in the oil-spill litigation may be united in the desire to make the company pay, but they’ve started fighting over whether to try to rein in Kenneth Feinberg, who runs...
Texas Governor Calls for Expanded Lawsuit Reform
Jan 14 2011 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry is urging state lawmakers to further expand the lawsuit reforms that the state has enacted in recent years. Texas lawmakers meet every two years. The 82nd Legislature Regular Session convened earlier...
Justice Department Settles Virginia Malpractice Suit for $2.3M
Jan 14 2011 // The Justice Department has agreed to pay $2.3 million to a couple who claimed inadequate care at Portsmouth Naval Medical Center caused their child to be born with neurological damage. The Virginian-Pilot reports that a...
Lawsuit Seeks to Halt New Orleans Levee Work
Jan 13 2011 // A lawsuit is threatening to slow down or even halt work to strengthen a New Orleans canal that broke catastrophically during Hurricane Katrina. Homeowners with backyards along the 17th Street Canal filed a civil suit in...
2011 to Be Key Year in Employment Liability
Jan 10 2011 // The year 2010 was an important one for employment-related class action litigation and 2011 could see even more far-reaching judgments and changes to class action law. The value of employment discrimination class action...
Federal Judge Dismisses Suits Against Insurers Over Chinese Drywall Coverage
Jan 10 2011 // A federal judge in Louisiana in mid-December let 10 insurance companies being sued by Louisiana homeowners over property damage resulting from the installation of defective drywall from China off the hook for coverage from...
Liberty Mutual Continues Fight with AIG As Other Insurers Settle
Jan 10 2011 // American International Group has negotiated a $450 million settlement with seven of its competitors in the protracted litigation over its questionable reporting of workers’ compensation premiums. But the long-running...
Lloyd’s Looks to Gov’t. Reforms to Reduce Skyrocketing Legal Costs
Jan 10 2011 // Lloyd’s leaders have long warned that the “compensation culture” is steadily increasing the costs of legal actions in the UK, as plaintiffs’ lawyers pursue more actions and seek larger recoveries...
Bond Insurer Sues Goldman Sachs Over Abacus Deal
Jan 7 2011 // Bond insurer ACA Financial Guaranty Corp. sued Goldman Sachs Group Inc. on Thursday, alleging it was deceived into insuring a transaction designed to fail and for which Goldman ultimately paid a $550 million civil...
Connecticut Woman Settles Suit Against Hospital
Jan 7 2011 // A New London woman and Lawrence & Memorial Hospital have settled a lawsuit in which the woman claimed the hospital failed to properly diagnose and treat her mother after she contracted the flesh-eating bacteria. An...
Cruise Ship Wins $24 Million in Florida Suit Against Rolls-Royce
Jan 7 2011 // A jury has awarded $24 million to Carnival Corp. in its lawsuit against Rolls-Royce PLC involving claims of a faulty propulsion system aboard the luxury liner Queen Mary 2. The jury verdict came after a two-week federal...
Former AIG Employee Sues Accounting Firm, Board Over Audits
Jan 5 2011 // A former employee of American International Group has filed a lawsuit claiming that PricewaterhouseCoopers was negligent in its audits of AIG and that the board of the bailed-out insurer failed to pursue a claim against...
Walker Named VP of Litigation Management at Kentucky’s IPISC
Jan 5 2011 // Intellectual Property Insurance Services Corp. (IPISC), based in Louisville, Kentucky, has appointed Sandra Walker as vice president of Litigation Management. Walker’s chief responsibility is to assist Insureds with...
BP’s Gulf Spill Costs Look Manageable 8 Months Later
Dec 31 2010 // As the Gulf oil spill gushed out of control, BP’s financial liabilities seemed big enough to sink the company. No more. Cleanup, government fines, lawsuits, legal fees and damage claims will likely exceed the $40...
Federal Judge Tosses Pennsylvania Bar Patron’s Shooting Lawsuit
Dec 30 2010 // A federal judge in Pittsburgh has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a bar patron who claims he and another customer should have been searched for weapons before they shot one another in February. Forty-two-year-old Thomas...
BP’s Gulf Spill Costs Look Manageable 8 Months Later
Dec 30 2010 // As the Gulf oil spill gushed out of control, BP’s financial liabilities seemed big enough to sink the company. No more. Cleanup, government fines, lawsuits, legal fees and damage claims will likely exceed the $40...
Maine Reporter Sues Ski Area over Accident
Dec 29 2010 // A newspaper reporter is suing a Maine ski area two years after breaking her back while riding inside a giant ball down a ski trail for a story. Rebekah Metzler, of Brunswick, worked for the Sun Journal of Lewiston in June...
