Latest Lawsuits Headlines
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Rush of Mortgage Lawsuits Expected, But Winning May be Tough
Apr 11 2008 // U.S. law offices plan a hiring spree as they ready a new volley of lawsuits for consumers who lost houses and investments in the mortgage industry meltdown. But new legal rules make it tougher to win than in the days of...
Judge Approves $4.5M Settlement Against Tyson Foods Directors
Apr 10 2008 // A Delaware Chancery Court judge has approved the settlement of a shareholder lawsuit against directors and executives of Tyson Foods but reserved judgment in a dispute over attorney’s fees. The settlement approved by...
Mississippi: Insurer Wants Sisters to Pay for Providing Katrina Claims Records to Scruggs
Apr 10 2008 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. wants a federal judge to sanction two sisters who secretly copied Hurricane Katrina claims documents and gave them to a Mississippi lawyer whose clients were suing the company. Cori and...
Plaintiffs Say They’ve Settled NYC Apartment Smoking Suit
Apr 10 2008 // The plaintiffs say they have settled a lawsuit accusing a chain-smoking neighbor of making their famous Manhattan apartment building smell like a casino. Jonathan and Jenny Needleman Selbin said Monday that neighbor Galila...
La. AG Drops Predecessor’s Case Against Biotech Company
Apr 10 2008 // Louisiana’s attorney general has withdrawn a multimillion-dollar antitrust lawsuit his predecessor filed on his final day in office against drug-maker Amgen Inc. Former Attorney General Charles Foti hired several...
Connecticut Supreme Court Allows State’s Damages Suit against Marsh
Apr 10 2008 // Connecticut’s Attorney General Richard Blumenthal can attempt to recover damages from Marsh & McLennan Inc. for harming the economy of the entire state, the state’s Supreme Court ruled. The ruling stems...
Wrongful Firing Lawsuit against Missouri Governor Moved to Capital
Apr 9 2008 // A judge has agreed with Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt’s request to switch a wrongful firing lawsuit by a former staff attorney from suburban Kansas City to the capital. But the judge has yet to decide whether a defamation...
Judge OKs Class Action Pension Suit against Soda Ash Producer
Apr 9 2008 // A federal judge has authorized a class-action lawsuit against a Wyoming soda ash company over alleged cuts in workers’ pension benefits. U.S. Judge Alan Johnson of Cheyenne in February authorized the class-action...
Bear Stearns, Deloitte & Touche Sued over Hedge Fund Losses
Apr 8 2008 // The liquidators of two Bear Stearns Cos mortgage hedge funds that collapsed last year, filed suit Monday against the company and its auditor, Deloitte & Touche, seeking to recover over $1 billion in losses. The suit,...
Attorney: South Carolina Textile Firm, Railroad Settle in Train Wreck Lawsuit
Apr 8 2008 // A South Carolina textile company that closed after a train wreck and toxic chemical spill in 2005 settled a lawsuit with a railroad company, ending a trial that began a month ago, an attorney for the firm said...
Missouri Department Lists Additional Producer Licensing Test Locations
Apr 7 2008 // In March, the Missouri Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions and Professional Registration announced that it contracted with Pearson VUE to conduct producer licensing examinations. In an effort to accommodate the...
Board Members, Former Execs of Louisiana Citizens Target of Lawsuit
Apr 7 2008 // Two policyholders of the Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. have filed a federal lawsuit against board members and former executives of the corporation, which is the state’s “insurer of last...
How Courts and Claims are Altering the D&O Landscape
Apr 7 2008 // Claims frequency, claims severity, subprime, securities fraud and Stoneridge key issues on the horizon From the vantage point of early 2008, insurers writing directors and officers coverage can look back on the prior year...
Is Now a Subprime Time To Be in D&O?
Apr 7 2008 // Execs ponder Stoneridge, plaintiffs bar shakeups and market volatility at PLUS Symposium Despite the calm, cool manner of the 1,300 well-coiffed underwriters and brokers in attendance, volatility was on the minds of most...
Families of 6 Dead Miners Sue Owners Over Utah Cave-In
Apr 4 2008 // The families of six men killed in a Utah mine cave-in sued the mine’s Ohio owners, claiming that the collapse occurred because they were harvesting coal unsafely. The lawsuit filed in 3rd District Court contends...
U.S. Appeals Court Tosses $800 Billion Tobacco Class Action Suit
Apr 4 2008 // A federal appeals court tossed out an $800 billion class-action lawsuit against tobacco companies Thursday brought by smokers who said they were deceived into believing “light” cigarettes were healthier. The...
Louisiana AG’s Suit Against Insurers Over Katrina Stays in U.S. Court
Apr 4 2008 // Policyholders may not be entitled to recover any money from a sweeping antitrust lawsuit that former Attorney General Charles Foti filed against some of the nation’s largest insurers after Hurricane Katrina, a...
U.S. Class Action King Weiss Pleads Guilty to Racketeering, Apologizes
Apr 3 2008 // Class-action lawsuit king Melvyn Weiss pleaded guilty Wednesday to U.S. racketeering charges in connection with a scheme to pay kickbacks to plaintiffs, apologizing to his former law firm and saying he deeply regretted his...
New Jersey Mother Settles Weight-Loss Lawsuit for $1M
Apr 3 2008 // Her lawyer says the mother of a Rochelle Park, New Jersey teen has settled a lawsuit over his weight-loss surgery for $1 million. Elaine LaBeur’s decision came after a few days of testimony in the trial involving...
Montana Files Brief with Supreme Court in Insurance Lawsuit
Apr 3 2008 // Montana State Insurance Commissioner John Morrison has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a legal dispute before the U.S. Supreme Court over an insurance company’s dual role of paying disability benefits and...
