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Heffernan Insurance to Offer Contract Litigation Insurance from Sonoma Risk
Sep 28 2010 // Sonoma Risk Insurance Agency and Heffernan Insurance Agency have teamed up to distribute their new Contract Litigation Insurance (CLI) in California. Underwritten by Zurich, this policy helps to protect plaintiffs and...
Maryland Court Upholds State Cap on Lawsuit Payouts
Sep 28 2010 // Maryland’s highest court has upheld a state law that limits the amount of money people can receive for suffering in lawsuits. Judges on the Court of Appeals ruled against the parents of a 5-year-old boy who drowned...
Tennessee Court Makes It Easier to Sue Employers Over Illegal Firings
Sep 28 2010 // In a decision that some legal observers found surprising, the Tennessee Supreme Court has reversed precedent and made it easier for workers to sue their employers when they believe they were fired illegally. The court...
Judge Refuses to Dismiss Securities Fraud Lawsuit Against AIG
Sep 27 2010 // A judge refused to dismiss a securities fraud lawsuit accusing American International Group Inc. of misleading investors about its exposure to subprime mortgages, which led to a liquidity crisis and $182.3 billion of...
Florida Man Sues Bar for Serving Him Too Many Drinks
Sep 27 2010 // A 73-year-old Bradenton, Fla.-area man who crashed his motorized scooter after too many drinks is suing the bar that served him. The Bradenton Herald reported John Wasko of Manatee filed a lawsuit last week against The...
Geico Lawsuits Target New York No-Fault Fraud Schemes
Sep 27 2010 // Geico is seeking $9 million in damages in three fraud lawsuits alleging that a medical equipment supply supplier and its attorneys, a radiology practice in Brooklyn and a Queens medical facility submitted thousands of...
Settlement Reached in Maryland Bridge Crash Lawsuit
Sep 24 2010 // Attorneys have reached a settlement in a lawsuit over a fatal crash on the Bay Bridge in the summer of 2008. Fifty-seven-year-old John Short died after he swerved his tractor-trailer to avoid hitting Candy Baldwin’s...
Texas Lawmaker Revives Disputed TWIA Information Request
Sep 23 2010 // A Texas state representative has issued a second request for information from the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association regarding a $189 million settlement in a class action lawsuit stemming from Hurricane Ike that was...
Toyota Settles Suit Over High-Profile California Crash
Sep 21 2010 // Toyota Motor Corp. has settled what is widely regarded as the most serious lawsuit of the hundreds of claims the automaker faces. The company has agreed to settle the suit brought by relatives of four family members killed...
New York Giants Sued by Woman Claiming Injury at ’09 Game
Sep 20 2010 // The New York Giants have been sued by a woman and her husband who claim she was attacked by fans during a New York Jets game played at Giants Stadium last year. Michelle Munoz says she attended the Sept. 20, 2009 game...
Layoffs Don’t Have to Mean Lawsuits
Sep 20 2010 // The difficult economic conditions of the past few years are on top of most people’s minds. Challenging economic circumstances are adversely impacting individuals and proving destructive to public entities. The weak...
What to Watch in the World of D&O
Sep 20 2010 // Every year it’s worth noting the list of the current hot topics in the world of directors’ and officers’ liability. As should be obvious from this year’s list, there is a lot going on now, with...
E&O Coverage for Real Estate Agents – Don’t Sell a Home Without It
Sep 20 2010 // Liability Woes Include Misrepresentation, Structural Defects, Legal Errors and More Real estate errors and omissions (E&O) liability coverage is big business. Although the recent property debacle has focused attention...
Lawsuit: Gas Drilling Fluid Ruined Pennsylvania Water Wells
Sep 17 2010 // Thirteen families in the heart of the gas-rich Marcellus Shale say their water wells have been contaminated by poisonous fluids blasted deep underground by a drilling company using a technique at the center of a fierce...
Suit Settled over Shock Therapy at Massachusetts School
Sep 17 2010 // The family of a former Massachusetts student who received electric shocks at a special needs school has agreed to receive $65,000 to settle a lawsuit claiming the treatment was inhumane and violated the student’s...
Court: Government Contractor Not Immune to New Orleans Levee Suit
Sep 17 2010 // A government contractor isn’t immune from claims that it performed shoddy work that resulted in the failure of a New Orleans levee system during Hurricane Katrina, a federal appeals court has ruled. This week’s...
BP Denies Alabama Claim Over Oil Spill
Sep 17 2010 // BP Plc has turned down Alabama’s claim for $148 million in lost government revenue due to the worst oil spill in U.S. history, the state’s attorney general, Troy King, said Friday. BP denied the claim because...
Judge Urges BP Oil Disaster Litigants to Settle, Avoid Trial
Sep 17 2010 // The U.S. judge overseeing the hundreds lawsuits filed by shrimpers, restaurateurs and others against BP Plc and its partners as a result of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill urged the parties on Thursday to consider an...
BP, Partners Say Most Oil Victims Should Not Be Allowed to Sue Yet
Sep 17 2010 // BP Plc and its partners in the blown-out Gulf well said on Monday that thousands of fishermen, seafood processors, restaurants, hotel owners and others may not yet have the right to sue over the spill, according to court...
Florida Workers’ Comp Law Shields Disney World, SeaWorld from Suits
Sep 17 2010 // They are two of Central Florida’s biggest and best-known employers — and both face the prospect of potentially ugly lawsuits stemming from a worker’s death on the job. And yet Walt Disney World, which is...
