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Louisiana AG Sues Chinese Drywall Manufacturers and Distributors
Jan 14 2010 // Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell filed suit in Orleans Parish against multiple Knauf entities, other international and domestic manufacturers, distributors, importers of alleged toxic Chinese drywall. Several...
Insurers Group Sues State of New York
Jan 14 2010 // A trade group for insurers in New York is suing the state, claiming lawmakers are illegally using assessments paid by insurers to fund unrelated state activities. At issue is the state’s use of the so-called...
Louisiana Files Suit Against Surety Bond Insurer with Texas Ties
Jan 10 2010 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance filed a lawsuit in late December 2009 against Infinity Surety of Louisiana Inc., Infinity Surety Agency LLC and George D. Black (collectively, Infinity Surety) alleging the firm has...
Group Sues for Records Proving Post-Madoff Reforms at SEC
Jan 8 2010 // A legal watchdog group has asked a court to order U.S. securities regulators to cough up records showing they implemented promised reforms following their failure to detect Bernard Madoff’s massive Ponzi scheme. In a...
Woman Sues New York City Gym over Pole-Dancing Class Injury
Jan 8 2010 // A woman says a Manhattan gym left her hanging when she tried a new workout: pole-dancing. Sue Ann Wee filed a lawsuit last week against the companies that run the Crunch fitness center chain. Lawyer Nicholas Warywoda says...
Chinese Drywall Lawsuit Filed in Louisiana but Most Claims Are in Florida
Jan 7 2010 // On Jan. 6, the WCI Chinese Drywall Trust, an entity formed in bankruptcy proceedings of residential homebuilder WCI Communities Inc., announced it had filed suit against 14 insurance companies seeking indemnification for...
Montana Court Upholds Notice Rule in Lawsuits Against Bars
Jan 7 2010 // A sharply divided Montana Supreme Court has upheld a state law that requires someone planning to sue a bar over liability in a drunken driving crash to notify the bar within 180 days of the crash. The Supreme Court issued...
WCI Chinese Drywall Trust Files Suit Against 14 Insurers
Jan 6 2010 // The Trustee for the WCI Chinese Drywall Trust has filed suit against 14 insurance companies in U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana, seeking indemnification for losses arising from claims for the development...
Securities Fraud Lawsuits Slide As Credit Crisis Eases
Jan 5 2010 // U.S. securities fraud lawsuits slid in 2009 as stocks rose and the credit crisis eased. Investors filed 169 prospective securities class-action lawsuits in 2009, down 24 percent from 223 in the prior year, according to a...
Cheerleader, Teacher Sues ‘Dirty’ Web Site in Kentucky for Libel
Jan 4 2010 // A Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader who also works as a school teacher in northern Kentucky is suing a gossip Web site for libel over a posting that she says falsely claims she was exposed to two venereal diseases. The woman,...
Ex-Georgia Football Player to Appeal Dismissal of Insurance Lawsuit
Jan 4 2010 // A former University of Georgia football player is asking a judge to reconsider his decision to dismiss a lawsuit that claimed the school’s athletic department failed to secure him a $500,000 insurance policy. Decory...
Pennsylvania Zinc Plant Settles Pollution Lawsuit
Jan 4 2010 // The largest zinc producer in the United States and an environmental group have settled a federal lawsuit claiming the company polluted the Ohio River. Under the settlement with Clean Water Action, Horsehead Holding Corp....
Suit: New York City Eatery Patron Hurt by Falling Moose Head
Jan 4 2010 // A Web designer says she was struck by the decor at a New York City restaurant — when it fell on her head. Raina Kumra says in a negligence lawsuit filed last week that a 150-pound stuffed moose head with 3-foot-wide...
Oregon Man Files Lawsuit Over Defective Baby Hammock
Jan 4 2010 // A Gresham, Ore., man has filed a lawsuit against baby product maker Amby Baby Motion following the death of his five-month-old boy in August. The death was the second linked by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission...
Former Employees Sue Oklahoma Trucking Company; File Claims with State
Dec 31 2009 // Former employees of Tulsa, Okla.-based Arrow Trucking Co. have sued the company after it suddenly suspended operations and laid off workers. The federal lawsuit claims Arrow violated laws that govern mass layoffs and...
Ex-Georgia Player’s Injury Insurance Lawsuit Dismissed
Dec 31 2009 // A judge has dismissed a former University of Georgia football player’s lawsuit against the university’s athletic association and one of its former employees. Junior cornerback Decory Bryant’s football...
Washington Man Sues Idaho Over Pothole
Dec 28 2009 // A Spokane, Wash., man has filed a $500,000 lawsuit against the state of Idaho for injuries he says resulted from a crash caused by potholes on Interstate 90 in northern Idaho. Kasey Crick, 22, filed the lawsuit Dec. 18...
Massachusetts AG Sues Agency Accused of Collecting Bogus Fees
Dec 28 2009 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley’s Office has filed a lawsuit against the owners and agents of a Bay State insurance agency, alleging the business pocketed $3.4 million in fees it disguised as insurance...
Massachusetts Woman Sues Nursing Home Where She Worked
Dec 23 2009 // A Northampton woman claims in a lawsuit filed against the Holyoke nursing home where she worked for three years that she was fired for complaining about improper treatment of patients. Joan Johnson is seeking $56,000 in...
Texas Jury Awards BP Workers $100M in Lawsuit
Dec 21 2009 // A federal jury on Dec. 18 awarded more than $100 million to 10 workers who claimed they were injured in 2007 when a toxic substance was released at BP PLC’s Texas City plant. The jurors in Galveston, southeast of...
