Latest Lawsuits Headlines
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California Fraud Suit to Target Major Bank
Oct 20 2009 // California Attorney General Jerry Brown’s office said Monday it would unveil a lawsuit against a major bank for committing fraud against the state’s Calpers and Calstrs retirement systems, two of the...
FirstEnergy Settles Shippingport Pollution Suit
Oct 19 2009 // FirstEnergy Corp. has agreed to continue improving pollution controls and monitoring to settle a federal lawsuit concerning a coal-fired power plant in western Pennsylvania. Environmental group PennFuture and nearby...
Connecticut Firefigher Sues over Promotion Test
Oct 19 2009 // A black New Haven, Connecticut firefighter has filed a federal lawsuit against the city over a promotion exam that was the subject of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June. Firefighter Michael Briscoe alleges in a...
Father Sues for $2.5M over NYC Student’s Drinking Death
Oct 15 2009 // A grieving father is suing a group of college students accused of plying his son with alcohol during a fatal hazing at a banned fraternity in western New York. Arman Partamian was found dead March 1 after drinking heavily...
Pennsylvania AG Sues Texas Firm Over Lost Health Insurance
Oct 15 2009 // Pennsylvania’s attorney general has sued a Texas company that allegedly stopped paying employees’ health insurance premiums for five months before its insurer retroactively canceled coverage, leaving some...
Medical Lawsuit Curbs Would Save Billions, Congressional Study Finds
Oct 12 2009 // Limits on medical malpractice lawsuits would lead doctors to order up fewer unneeded tests and save taxpayers billions more than previously thought, budget umpires for Congress said in a reversal that puts the issue back...
West Virginia Racetrack Settles Lawsuit with Paralyzed Jockey
Oct 8 2009 // MTR Gaming Group Inc. has settled a 3-year-old lawsuit by a jockey who was paralyzed from the chest down in a West Virginia racing accident. Gary Birzer sued MTR and Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack & Resort in Chester,...
Trustee Sues Madoff Family Members for $198 Million
Oct 6 2009 // A court-appointed trustee sued the brother, sons and a niece of imprisoned fraudster Bernard Madoff Friday for $198 million, accusing them of milking the family-run business while they were executives of the...
U.S. Supreme Court Justices Face High-Profile Cases As New Term Opens
Oct 6 2009 // Questions about securities fraud, Sarbanes-Oxley, financial executives’ compensation and football merchandise are among the high-profile cases that the Supreme Court will take up in its term that began this week:...
Suing Now Costs More in Oregon
Oct 5 2009 // The cost of filing a lawsuit in Oregon went up this week. The state Legislature passed the new fees last session to help avoid deeper cuts to the justice system. The increases that took effect Thursday vary. Lawsuits that...
New Hampshire Campground Owners Sued in Flood Death of R.I. Girl, 7
Oct 5 2009 // The family of a 7-year-old Rhode Island girl killed in a flash flood at a New Hampshire campground has sued its owners. Kaitlyn Ferra was vacationing with her parents, Brandon and Donna Ferra, and her brother at Ames Brook...
Third Lawsuit Filed Against Oklahoma Eatery Over E. Coli Outbreak
Oct 2 2009 // Attorneys for 14 people sickened by an August 2008 outbreak of E. coli have filed a lawsuit seeking more than $3 million from the operators of a Locust Grove restaurant where the bacteria originated. The complaint was...
Lawsuit Filed in Maine over Propane Explosion
Oct 1 2009 // A lawsuit has been filed against C.N. Brown Co. alleging the company was responsible for a propane explosion that destroyed a home and severely burned a man in western Maine in 2004. The complaint in Oxford County Superior...
Minnesota AG Sues 2 Insurers for Alleged Fraudulent Activity
Oct 1 2009 // Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson is suing two out-of-state companies for selling allegedly fraudulent health insurance coverage to the uninsured. In an announcement on the AG’s Web site, Swanson said the two...
Suits Against Bush Officials Challenge Personal Immunity from Rights Claims
Oct 1 2009 // Former Attorney General John Ashcroft and one of his hardline lieutenants face the rare prospect of being held personally liable for alleged violations of individuals’ rights in the aggressive aftermath of the 2001...
Kentucky Ex-Lawmaker Nunn Sued by Slain Insurance Employee’s Family
Sep 30 2009 // A former lawmaker who faces a murder charge in the death of his ex-girlfriend has now been sued by the woman’s family. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports the family of Amanda Ross filed the wrongful death lawsuit in...
Judge Allows Class-Action Overtime Suit against Erie Indemnity Co.
Sep 30 2009 // A federal judge in Pennsylvania is allowing a class-action claim against an insurance company accused of failing to pay overtime to claims adjusters that worked at a Pittsburgh-area office. U.S. District Judge Sean...
Bank of America, Execs Owe Investors ‘Billions,’ Says Ohio AG Lawsuit
Sep 29 2009 // Investors in a class-action lawsuit against Bank of America Corp. over the Merrill Lynch & Co. takeover are trying to collect “billions of dollars” in damages, Ohio’s attorney general said...
New Mexico Farm Workers Sue for Coverage
Sep 28 2009 // New Mexico dairy worker Joe Griego says the worst part of being attacked by a bull at work has been finding out his injuries aren’t covered by state workers’ compensation benefits. So Griego and others are...
Disgruntled Customer Sues Bank of America for ‘$1,784 Billion, Trillion’
Sep 25 2009 // Dalton Chiscolm is unhappy about Bank of America’s customer service — really, really unhappy. Chiscolm in August sued the largest U.S. bank and its board, demanding that “1,784 billion, trillion...
