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Suit Challenges Newark’s Insurance Requirement for Demonstrators
Feb 25 2008 // A three-year-old court order has failed to stop Newark, N.J. from charging people who wish to engage in free speech, according to a lawsuit filed against the city. The lawsuit charged that Newark is violating an order that...
Neb. High Court Nixes Reinstatement of Suit against State Farm
Feb 25 2008 // The Nebraska Supreme Court has refused to reinstate a lawsuit against State Farm in a dispute over whether the insurance company delivered the medical coverage it promised in its automobile policies. The Supreme...
Things to Consider When Estimating Subprime D&O Losses
Feb 24 2008 // There are likely to be more securities class action lawsuits in 2008 than any year since the passage of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act in 1995. In addition, the subprime-related litigation wave is likely to...
Judge: Trapped Miners Can Sue Company, Not 3 Others
Feb 22 2008 // Eight of the nine miners trapped underground in July 2002 when a Pennsylvania mineshaft flooded can continue their suit against the firm that controlled the mine, a judge ruled. Six other miners who narrowly escaped being...
La. Man’s Death After Eating Oysters Prompts Lawsuit
Feb 21 2008 // Relatives of a man who died two weeks after eating oysters for his 60th birthday dinner are suing the state health department and a Denham Springs restaurant, claiming negligence. The family of James Sartwell, in its...
$30M Suit Filed In Md. Hotel Carbon Monoxide Deaths
Feb 21 2008 // A Lebanon, Pa., woman whose husband and 10-year-old daughter were killed by a carbon monoxide leak at an Ocean City, Maryland motel room has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against four companies. The lawsuit seeking $30...
N.M. Tribe Sues Regulator Over Leavitt’s Corp. Status Reinstatement
Feb 21 2008 // The Mescalero Apache Tribe in Santa Fe, N.M., contends it overpaid millions of dollars for insurance, alleging the state let an insurance agent operate after the agent was accused of submitting fraudulent documents to sell...
Mass. Women Sues After Being Blocked from Men’s Golf Tournament
Feb 20 2008 // A Cape Cod, Mass. woman is suing the town of Dennis and its two public golf courses after she wasn’t allowed to play in a men’s tournament with her father. Forty-three-year-old Elaine Joyce is a member of both...
N.Y. Court: Insureds Can Sue For Consequential Damages
Feb 20 2008 // A new ruling by the New York Court of Appeals could open the door for breach of contract suits against commercial property insurers – a move two dissenting judges warned could raise the price of insurance for...
U.S. High Court Bars Some State Suits over Medical Devices
Feb 20 2008 // The Supreme Court handed a victory to Medtronic Inc., ruling that patients cannot sue medical-device manufacturers in state court over harm from a device that has approval from federal regulators. By an 8-1 vote, the court...
Lawsuit Presses Mich. Lawmakers to Allow Licenses for Legal Immigrants
Feb 15 2008 // When Michigan officials recently reinterpreted state law to stop nonresidents from getting driver’s licenses, critics said it had an unintended consequence. The crackdown, intended to target illegal immigrants, also...
Study: Subprime Mortgage Lawsuits Outpacing Savings & Loan Crisis
Feb 15 2008 // The number of subprime-related lawsuits filed in federal courts is dramatically outpacing the savings and loan litigation of the early 1990s. That’s accordng to a study by Chicago-based Navigant Consulting,...
Texas Grand Jurors Suing to Disclose Evidence in Alleged Arson Case
Feb 15 2008 // Six members of a Houston grand jury that indicted a Texas Supreme Court justice and his wife over a house fire have filed a lawsuit so they can speak about evidence in the case. By law, grand jury proceedings are...
Legislative Plan Would Buffer Iowa Counties from Bicyclists’ Lawsuits
Feb 14 2008 // Bicyclists would have a hard time collecting damages from counties or cities in Iowa under a plan up for consideration by state legislators. The proposal by the Iowa State Association of Counties would protect cities and...
Conn. Court Upholds $15K Verdict in Wedding Date Lawsuit
Feb 14 2008 // A Connecticut appeals court has affirmed a lower court’s ruling that awarded a bride $15,000 for emotional distress following a “Shakespearean drama of confusion and lost opportunities” that resulted in...
Texas Physicians Joins Lawsuit to Protect Liability Reforms
Feb 13 2008 // The Texas Medical Association reported it has joined a legal action aimed a protecting tort reforms passed by the Texas Legislature passed in 2003. TMA said it sued to resolve several constitutional challenges to the...
Jury Rejects Cancer Patient’s Claims in Texas Railroad Tie Lawsuit
Feb 13 2008 // Jurors in Fort Worth, Texas, on Feb. 11 rejected a cancer survivor’s claim that toxic chemicals from a Texas railroad tie plant where her husband worked caused the disease that required the removal of her...
Legally Blind Woman Can Pursue Restaurant Mistreatment Suit
Feb 11 2008 // When a legally blind woman went to eat at N.Y. fast-food restaurants, workers greeted her with mockery and mistreatment, she said in a lawsuit. Employees grew irritated when she asked them to read menus to her, and workers...
Tenants in Famous NYC Building Sue Neighbor over Second-Hand Smoke
Feb 11 2008 // A couple in a famed apartment building that has been home to celebrities such as Angelina Jolie are suing a neighbor over her heavy smoking. Lawyers Jonathan and Jenny Needleman Selbin say in a lawsuit filed Thursday that...
Conn. Jury Awards Record $38.5M in Malpractice Lawsuit
Feb 11 2008 // A Superior Court jury in Stamford, Conn. has ordered a city obstetrician to pay $38.5 million to the family of a boy born with cerebral palsy in 2003. The verdict is believed to be among the largest medical malpractice...
