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Supreme Court Stoneridge Ruling Adds to Setbacks for U.S. Investors
Jan 18 2008 // U.S. investors are heading into 2008 stung by a series of legal and regulatory setbacks, analysts say, with the latest the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Stoneridge case protecting businesses from securities-fraud...
W. Va.: St. Paul Travelers Settles Wrongful Firing Lawsuit
Jan 17 2008 // In Charleston, W. Va., Kanawha County’s insurer has settled a wrongful-termination lawsuit filed by three former investigators who were fired by former Prosecutor Bill Charnock. St. Paul Travelers agreed Monday to...
Advisen: Subprime Writedowns Trigger Avalanche of Lawsuits
Jan 15 2008 // More than $170 billion has evaporated from the balance sheets of companies around the world as the result of the meltdown of the U.S. subprime mortgage market, reports Advisen Ltd., a provider of technology and data to the...
Supreme Court Limits Investors’ Securities Lawsuits
Jan 15 2008 // In a decision sought by corporate America to stem the tide of securities lawsuits, the U.S. Supreme Court today pulled the plug on investors trying to sue some suppliers of a company whose stock price was inflated with the...
Ariz. Court Goes Against State Farm in Uninsured Motorist Case
Jan 15 2008 // An Arizona Supreme Court ruling issued late last week blocks insurance companies from lowering underinsured motorist payments to injured people who have received workers’ compensation. The ruling against Bloomington,...
Another Class-Action Lawsuit Filed over Fernley Flood
Jan 14 2008 // Three law firms have filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of victims of the Fernley flood — the second such complaint in two days. In their suit filed in Lyon County District Court in Yerington, Nev. the Reno firms...
Fla. Gov. Crist Weighs Suing Property Insurers Over Rates
Jan 13 2008 // Gov. Charlie Crist has asked three trial lawyers to review documents for a possible class-action lawsuit against property insurers, alleging that the industry hasn’t passed on savings to consumers as required by...
Subprime Contagion: Where Will the Litigation Wave Spread Next?
Jan 13 2008 // The subprime mortgage meltdown has been a leading story on the front pages of newspapers around the country for the past few months. The uproar also has led to a flood of new lawsuits and to concerns about how much further...
Household Employee Exposure an Opportunity to Go Beyond Typical Sale
Jan 13 2008 // Homeowners may be at risk when employing housekeepers, maids, cooks, babysitters and other domestic employees We want to trust those whom we hire to work in our homes. Who prepare our meals. Clean our treasured...
Lawsuit: N.Y. Patient Mistakenly Got HIV Medication
Jan 11 2008 // A liver transplant patient has sued New York University Medical Center for $2 million, claiming the hospital’s pharmacy gave him medicine for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, when he tried to fill a prescription for...
Tenn. Supreme Court to Decide Alcoa Asbestos Suit
Jan 11 2008 // The Tennessee Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a case that will decide whether Alcoa Inc. is responsible for the asbestos-related death of a former worker’s daughter. The Pittsburgh-based company argues that...
Family of Ore. Girl Injured by Lawnmower Files Suit
Jan 11 2008 // The family of 4-year-old Isabelle Norton seeks more than $8.5 million from the company that manufactured the riding mower that backed over her leg, causing it to be amputated. Norton’s father, Kirk, was mowing the...
First Cancer Lawsuit Related to Texas Railroad Tie Plant Begins
Jan 10 2008 // Owners of a Texas plant that makes railroad ties were grossly negligent in failing to provide safety equipment for workers handling toxic chemicals, a pollution prevention expert testified in the first of a flurry of...
Kan. Jury Sides with Oil Company in Pollution Lawsuit
Jan 9 2008 // Jurors sided with oil giant BP Corp. North America Inc. Monday in a pollution lawsuit filed by the city of Neodesha seeking to recover the costs of cleanup and damages caused by an oil refinery. Jurors hearing the case in...
Environmental Groups sue Shell for Excess Pollution at Texas Refinery
Jan 9 2008 // Environmental groups have sued Shell Oil Co. and several of its affiliates, claiming the oil giant has for years released pollutants from its suburban Houston refinery that are well above state and federal limits. In their...
Oregon Man Alleges Omaha Diocese Ignored Abuse Reports
Jan 8 2008 // A second man from Springfield, Ore., has filed a lawsuit in Nebraska alleging that the Omaha Archdiocese ignored reports that one of its priests was having improper contact with children. The lawsuit was filed this week in...
Great American Insurance Fights Mass. AG Bid-Rigging Charge
Jan 7 2008 // The Massachusetts attorney general has accused Great American Insurance Group of bid-rigging for what she says was a fake price quote it submitted in 2004 to a Norwood technology firm. Attorney General Martha Coakley last...
Mauna Kea Beach Hotel Owners Sue Insurer for Earthquake Claim
Jan 3 2008 // The Mauna Kea Beach Hotel on the Big Island of Hawaii has sued one of its insurance carriers for denying a $20 million claim stemming from last year’s earthquakes. The hotel has been closed for repairs and...
Top Insurance Stories in 2007 in Midwest
Dec 31 2007 // From storms that flooded the Midwest destroying homes and business in the summer to a court ruling that could have a significantly negative impact on the medical malpractice insurance market in the state of Illinois, 2007...
Ohio Companies Sue Bureau of Workers’ Comp over Rating System
Dec 27 2007 // Three companies have filed a class-action suit against the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation over a system that they say costs employers million of dollars in excessive premiums. The companies argue that the...
