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Kentucky: Families of Bardstown Fire Victims Suing Cigarette Maker
Feb 4 2008 // Relatives of 10 people killed in a house fire in Bardstown, Ky., last year have filed a lawsuit that names a cigarette company and a furniture maker. The suit alleges the two companies, Altria Group and Jackson Furniture...
Judge Weighs Dropping Financial Firms from Enron Lawsuit
Feb 4 2008 // A federal judge in Houston said Friday she will evaluate whether three high profile financial institutions being sued for $40 billion in connection with Enron Corp.’s collapse should be dropped from litigation after...
Court Records: Miss. Lawyer to Take 5th in State Farm Suit
Feb 1 2008 // Plaintiffs attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, facing corruption and contempt charges in unrelated cases, will invoke the Fifth Amendment if forced to testify in a federal lawsuit involving Mississippi’s...
Rebuking Agency, Judge Dismisses Katrina Lawsuit Against Corps
Feb 1 2008 // Saying his hands were tied by law, a federal judge in New Orleans dismissed a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over levee breaches after Hurricane Katrina, but rebuked the agency for failing to...
Spaniard Suing for Own Car Damage from Hitting, Killing Bicyclist
Feb 1 2008 // A motorist who struck and killed a 17-year-old cyclist in northern Spain — and then sued the boy’s parents over the damage to his Audi — has dropped the lawsuit, the family said Wednesday. Businessman Tomas...
Judge Sentences Milberg Weiss Lawyer for Class-Action Kickbacks
Jan 31 2008 // A retired attorney who pleaded guilty in a lucrative kickback scheme involving class-action lawsuits against some of America’s largest corporations was sentenced this week in Los Angeles to six months home detention...
NYC Judge Throws Out $1M Jell-O Wrestling Lawsuit
Jan 30 2008 // There’s no room for this Jell-O wrestling lawsuit. A Manhattan judge has thrown out $1 million suit against New York University by a former student who claimed he broke his hip at a Jell-O wrestling dorm party. Avram...
Alabama Supreme Court Reverses Course, Offers Hope to Ill Workers
Jan 30 2008 // In a 5-4 decision, the Alabama Supreme Court reversed direction and allowed lawsuits from workers who become ill many years after being exposed to dangerous chemicals. The majority said the two-year statute of limitations...
List of Defendants Growing in Suit Against Countrywide Financial
Jan 28 2008 // New York authorities are suing 26 banks and two accounting firms that did business with Countrywide Financial Corp., saying the companies failed to ensure the beleaguered mortgage company was being honest with...
Some Ohio Officials Say Too Soon to Measure Impact of Tort Reform Efforts
Jan 28 2008 // Some Ohio state officials aren’t quite ready to say that legislative efforts to cap award amounts and other tort reform efforts are having an impact on dropping claims numbers. The state insurance director said last...
Judge: Miss. Attorney General Must Testify in State Farm Lawsuit
Jan 28 2008 // Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood must testify in a lawsuit filed by State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. that accuses him of violating an agreement to end a criminal investigation of the insurer’s handling of...
Gender-Bias Class Action Against GE by Former Counsel Advances
Jan 28 2008 // A high-ranking attorney for General Electric Co. can go ahead with her class-action lawsuit against what she calls the “very male-dominated culture” in the international conglomerate, a federal judge has...
Ariz. Court Goes Against State Farm in Uninsured Motorist Case
Jan 27 2008 // A recent Arizona Supreme Court ruling blocks insurance companies from lowering underinsured motorist payments to injured people who have received workers’ compensation. Because the lawsuit was filed as a class...
The Subprime Mess Spills Into ERISA Lawsuits
Jan 27 2008 // Lawsuits against 401(k) plan fiduciaries and fund managers on the rise In recent 2007 year-end studies, both Cornerstone Research and NERA Economic Consulting documented how the subprime-related litigation wave drove an...
Supreme Court Limits Investors’ Securities Lawsuits in Stoneridge Ruling
Jan 27 2008 // In a decision sought by corporate America to stem the tide of securities lawsuits, the U.S. Supreme Court pulled the plug on investors trying to sue some suppliers of a company whose stock price was inflated with the aid...
Lawsuit Claims Ala.-Based Insurance Co. Discriminated Against Haitians
Jan 25 2008 // Three Florida residents have sued Alabama-based Liberty National Life Insurance Co. claiming their insurance was canceled or undervalued because of discrimination against Haitian-Americans. The new class-action lawsuit was...
Wis. Proposal Would Expand Malpractice Suits to Parents of Adults
Jan 24 2008 // A bill passed by the Wisconsin Senate would give parents of adult children who die as a result of medical malpractice the ability to file lawsuits. Right now, parents of adult children in Wisconsin can’t sue for...
Supreme Court Turns Away Suit Against Banks by Enron Investors
Jan 23 2008 // Following up on its Stoneridge ruling on Tuesday in which it limited investor lawsuits, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a bid by former Enron investors to recover as much as $40 billion from investment banks associated...
Feds Agree to $750,000 Payment in Florida Malpractice Suit
Jan 21 2008 // The U.S. government will pay $750,000 to settle a medical malpractice lawsuit brought by the family of a Florida woman who died after eight surgeries in just over a month in 2005. Betty Jean Plato, 76, arrived with stomach...
Miss. Judge Removes Himself from Cases Amid Federal Probe
Jan 21 2008 // A Mississippi judge says he disqualified himself from hearing several lawsuits because federal authorities were investigating allegations that powerful plaintiffs attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs tried to...
