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Rhode Island Man Sues DMV over License Suspension Notice
Apr 28 2010 // A Rhode Island man is suing the state Division of Motor Vehicles, saying the agency told him his license was being suspended but failed to give a valid reason. Gerald Carbone, of Warwick, says he received a notice last...
Federal Court Strikes Blow to Wal-Mart in Sex Discrimination Suit
Apr 27 2010 // A landmark sex-discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. may proceed as a class-action case, a federal appeals court said, dealing the retailer a major blow and exposing it to billions of dollars of potential...
Shareholders File Suit Against Goldman CEO Over Abacus
Apr 26 2010 // Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein and other bank officials have been sued by shareholders in two lawsuits related to fraud allegations brought by the federal government. In complaints filed in New...
Relatives File $35M Lawsuit in Baltimore Fire Recruit’s Death
Apr 23 2010 // Relatives of a Baltimore fire department recruit who died during a live-burn exercise have filed a $35 million lawsuit against the city. Racheal Wilson died in February 2007 after becoming trapped inside a vacant rowhouse...
Appeals Court Tosses $35M Louisiana Citizens Settlement
Apr 23 2010 // The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals tossed out the $35 million settlement of two class action lawsuits against Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp., saying the deal was not fair to some policyholders. The appellate...
Senate Panel Sought Action Against Goldman Before SEC Suit
Apr 23 2010 // A Senate investigations panel looking into Goldman Sachs’ role in the financial crisis subpoenaed the investment bank as early as June 30, 2009, long before securities regulators sued it for fraud, according to a...
Florida Residents Seek $500 Million in Superfund Lawsuit
Apr 22 2010 // Residents of a neighborhood on the edge of a polluted Florida Superfund site have sued the property owners, seeking at least $500 million to decontaminate their homes and monitor their health. The so-called Cabot/Koppers...
Pennsylvania Judge Tosses Burned-by-Price-Scanner Suit
Apr 22 2010 // An Erie County, Pennsylvania judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by the guardian of a 12-year-old girl who claimed the girl was burned and traumatized when a convenience store clerk allegedly aimed a hand-held price...
Convicted Kidnapper of South Dakota Insurance Executive Sues Insurer
Apr 22 2010 // Eric Castaneira, who went to prison in for kidnapping an executive at South Dakota-based Midland National Life Insurance Co. in 1991, has filed a lawsuit seeking more than $500,000 from the company, plus punitive damages...
Feds Sue Metal Companies for New York Mercury Cleanup
Apr 21 2010 // The federal government has sued to recover $7 million in mercury cleanup costs from eight companies that used a New York refinery between 1970 and 1991. The companies were part of an earlier $2.4 million settlement. But...
Safety Violations Found at Massey Mines Since Blast
Apr 20 2010 // Federal inspectors have found more than 60 serious safety violations at Massey Energy operations since the explosion that killed 29 miners, adding to fallout from the disaster that includes a wrongful death lawsuit by one...
Louisiana Bill Would Limit Liability of Mardi Gras Float-Builders
Apr 20 2010 // A bill passed by the Louisiana House to limit the liability of float-builders would damage future attempts for float riders or watchers to sue when parade festivities hurt or kill someone, says a man whose brother died in...
Families of 2 Maryland Miners File Wrongful Death Suit
Apr 20 2010 // The families of two western Maryland coal miners who died in a 2007 highwall collapse near Barton are seeking $8 million in a wrongful death lawsuit. The families of Dale Jones and Michael Wilt filed the complaint Thursday...
State Farm Sues TDI; Files to Increase Homeowners Rates in Louisiana
Apr 19 2010 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. filed a lawsuit against the Texas Department of Insurance after the state agency took the unprecedented move of publicizing on its Web site recent rate hike proposals by the...
One Down, More to Go for AIG and Cordray
Apr 19 2010 // Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray won a round in early April in his lawsuit alleging insurance companies and brokers conspired to fix commercial casualty insurance prices during a period extending from 2001 to...
Charges Against Goldman Could Unleash Torrent of Lawsuits
Apr 19 2010 // The fraud charges against Goldman Sachs & Co. that rocked financial markets Friday are no slam dunk, as hazy evidence and strategic pitfalls could easily trip up government lawyers. Yet that hardly matters, experts...
2 Kentucky School Officials Dropped from Wrongful Death Suit
Apr 19 2010 // A judge in Louisville has removed two high school officials from a wrongful death lawsuit stemming from the death of a 15-year-old football player. The Courier-Journal of Louisville reported that Judge Mitch Perry dropped...
Investor Suit Targets Massey Directors, Execs Over West Virginia Mine Blast
Apr 19 2010 // A trust fund that invests in Massey Energy wants the board of directors and top executives held personally accountable for the recent explosion that killed 29 coal miners. The Manville Personal Injury Trust sued last week...
North Carolina Attorney General Not Joining Suit Against Healthcare Law
Apr 19 2010 // North Carolina’s attorney general says the state will not join a lawsuit that seeks to overturn President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. Attorney General Roy Cooper said in a letter to Gov. Beverly Perdue...
Father Loses California Malpractice Suit Over Son’s Brain Damage
Apr 19 2010 // A man who claimed his infant son was left brain-damaged after surgery at Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles has lost a $19-million lawsuit. A Los Angeles jury ruled in favor of the hospital and two doctors. Eduardo Rivas of...
