Latest Lawsuits Headlines
All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
State Farm Sues Mississippi Attorney General over Criminal Probe
Nov 5 2007 // State Farm Insurance Cos. is suing Mississippi’s attorney general for allegedly violating an agreement to end a criminal investigation of the insurer’s handling of claims on the Gulf Coast after Hurricane...
Options Backdating: One year later
Nov 4 2007 // A year ago, the emerging stock options backdating scandal was a hot topic, dominating the headlines of the financial pages and commanding the attention of the professional liability industry. The options backdating story...
Options Backdating: One year later
Nov 4 2007 // A year ago, the emerging stock options backdating scandal was a hot topic, dominating the headlines of the financial pages and commanding the attention of the professional liability industry. The options backdating story...
Whistleblower lawsuit against insurers dismissed
Nov 4 2007 // A federal judge has thrown out a so-called “whistleblowers'” lawsuit that accuses insurance companies of overbilling the federal government for Hurricane Katrina’s flood damage to Louisiana homes. Allan...
Options Backdating: One year later
Nov 4 2007 // A year ago, the emerging stock options backdating scandal was a hot topic, dominating the headlines of the financial pages and commanding the attention of the professional liability industry. The options backdating story...
Walking into a discrimination minefield
Nov 4 2007 // When a former employee sued Ernest for age discrimination, the owner of a small food services company fought back. He knew the allegation was totally false but, unfortunately for Ernest, he was completely on his own. Like...
News Currents
Nov 4 2007 // Only 22 percent of in-house counsel said they expect to see the number of legal disputes their companies face increase over the next 12 months; a year ago, 33 percent said they were anticipating a rise in lawsuits...
D&O underwriters assess the subprime meltdown
Nov 4 2007 // When defaults in U.S. mortgages reached record levels in the second quarter of 2007, forcing a large number of subprime mortgage lenders to shut down or file for bankruptcy, the fallout spread quickly throughout the...
U.S. Employee Sues Japanese Ad Firm Alleging Offensive Sexual Activity
Nov 2 2007 // The former creative director of the U.S. arm of Japan’s largest advertising agency sued the company this week, saying he was pressured to visit a brothel and engage in other sexually explicit activities on company...
Consumer Group Says Calif. Commissioner’s Aide Helped Insurers in Lawsuit
Nov 2 2007 // The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights is claiming a former insurance industry lawyer, a senior counsel to California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner, covertly assisted insurance companies in a lawsuit they...
Insurance Company Must Defend Wis. School Employee in Defamation Suit
Nov 1 2007 // A school’s insurance company must pay the attorney fees and expenses of an administrative assistant who was sued for defamation, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday. Gail Haack, who worked for former Algoma School...
Calif. AG Sues Drywall Contractor
Nov 1 2007 // Citing the threat of a “shadowy, underground economy,” California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. sued the Brinas Corp., a Los Angeles drywall contractor that unlawfully forced its employees to work...
S.D. Court Says Insurance Does Not Cover Lawsuit on Wife Stealing
Oct 30 2007 // South Dakota’s public policy prevents insurance from covering damages in lawsuits against those accused of stealing another’s spouse, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The high court’s unanimous...
Women File Lawsuit Over Fatal Balloon Accident
Oct 30 2007 // The sister of a California woman who fell at least 70 feet to her death during the Albuquerque, N.M., International Balloon Fiesta earlier this month has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the balloon pilot, his...
Lawsuit: Union Pacific Pressured Ark. Families Into Settlements
Oct 30 2007 // A lawsuit filed in Arkansas against Union Pacific claims company officials pressured families of those injured or killed by trains to quickly settle for amounts lower than what they may have received with a lawyer’s...
Declaratory judgment actions decide obligations under insurance contracts
Oct 27 2007 // A declaratory judgment action is essentially a request — typically by the insurer but often by the insured — that a court examine the relevant insurance policy provisions and declare the rights and obligations...
Has the two-year lawsuit lull ended?
Oct 27 2007 // Was the two-year letup in class action lawsuit filings too good to be true? In July 2007, Cornerstone Research released its mid-year 2007 study of securities class action filing trends, in which it noted that the first...
News Currents
Oct 27 2007 // ChoicePoint faces class action lawsuit it claims is baseless, association contemplates what action to take Two insurance producers have filed a class action lawsuit against ChoicePoint Inc., ChoicePoint Services Inc.,...
10 ChoicePoint faces class action lawsuit
Oct 27 2007 // Company claims legal action is “frivolous, baseless” 10 Calif. workers’ comp reforms working better than expected Governor vetoes bill to raise benefits 11 Idaho Falls considers banning cell phones while...
News Currents
Oct 27 2007 // Conn. AG alleges reinsurance antitrust conspiracy drives-up prices A lawsuit against a major reinsurance broker for alleged antitrust activity in Connecticut is being used to raise broader questions about the largely...
