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Pulsar Re Files Suit against Lehman to Recover $450 million
Jan 28 2011 // Lehman Brothers Holdings has been sued by a reinsurer that wants control of $450 million it said it pledged to secure various obligations, and which should not be given to Lehman creditors. Pulsar Re, a Bermuda-based...
Courts Allowing Private Facebook Posts As Evidence in Lawsuits
Jan 27 2011 // It’s the latest litigation tactic in the online age: U.S. lawyers are trying to mine the private zones of Facebook and other social-media sites for photos, comments, status updates and other tidbits that might...
Alabama Court Rules University Hospital Shares State Immunity
Jan 26 2011 // The Alabama Supreme Court has thrown out a $3.2 million judgment against a Montgomery hospital, ruling for the first time that a hospital affiliated with a state university shares the state’s immunity from...
Wisconsin Legislature Passes Lawsuit Reform Bill
Jan 25 2011 // The Wisconsin Legislature has passed a bill that would make it more difficult to sue companies and collect damages. The Assembly passed the bill on a partisan 57-36 on Jan. 20, two days after it cleared the Senate also...
Ohio Uninsured Motorist Litigation Tied to Money for Charities
Jan 24 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...
Sex, Age Discrimination Suit Filed Against Bank of New York Mellon
Jan 24 2011 // A veteran portfolio officer at Bank of New York Mellon Corp accused the company of sex and age discrimination Friday, charging she was paid less than younger, male employees. Rochelle Cohen’s suit, filed in federal...
Investor Suit Against Bear Stearns, Auditor to Proceed
Jan 24 2011 // Plaintiffs in one of the biggest U.S. investor lawsuits stemming from the financial crisis got a boost from a judge, who said a case against fallen investment bank Bear Stearns and its outside auditor, Deloitte &...
Beacon Mutual Suit Granted Class-Action Status
Jan 24 2011 // A judge has granted class-action status to plaintiffs suing the Beacon Mutual Insurance Co. for inequitably distributing $101 million in dividends among policy holders. Judge Michael Silverstein said in his ruling that...
Auditors Successful in Defending Against Investor Lawsuits
Jan 24 2011 // Investors looking to pin blame on auditors for failing to flag risks ahead of the credit crisis are having a hard time getting their cases to stick. All of the “Big Four” auditors have been sued by investors...
Dead Woman’s Kin to Sue New York City over Blizzard Response
Jan 21 2011 // A woman who says her mother could still be alive if it weren’t for New York’s poor response to a Christmas weekend blizzard plans to sue the city. A lawyer for Laura Freeman filed a notice of claim against the...
Securities Lawsuits Set New Record Despite Slowdown in Credit Crisis
Jan 21 2011 // The number of securities lawsuits filed in 2010 edged above the record number of suits filed in 2009, despite an easing of litigation related to the credit crisis. The number of new suits related to the recent credit...
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...
