Latest Lawsuits Headlines
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Miss.: State Farm Settles Fourth Katrina Lawsuit in a Month
Mar 22 2007 // State Farm settled out of court with a Biloxi couple whose lawsuit over Hurricane Katrina damage was scheduled to be tried next week in federal court, a lawyer for the homeowners said Tuesday. Terms were not...
Chicago Woman Sues Over Pet Food Recall, Seeks Class-action
Mar 22 2007 // A Chicago woman sued Menu Foods this week, alleging the pet food manufacturer delayed announcing a recall of 60 million containers of dog and cat food despite knowing its products were contaminated and potentially...
Procter & Gamble Wins $19 Million in Lawsuit Over Satan Rumors
Mar 21 2007 // Procter & Gamble Co. won a jury award of $19.25 million in a civil lawsuit filed against four former Amway distributors accused of spreading false rumors linking the company to Satanism to advance their own...
Merck Fights Vioxx Class Action Suit Brought by Insurers
Mar 21 2007 // Health insurers and union health plans nationwide should not be allowed to sue Merck & Co. jointly to recover money they paid for Vioxx prescriptions, a lawyer for the drug maker argued this week in opposing a lawsuit...
Mo. Court Dismisses Homeowners’ Lawsuits Alleging Discrimination
Mar 20 2007 // Attorneys for a group of homeowners said they will continue the fight after a federal judge dismissed their lawsuits charging some of the nation’s largest insurers with discriminating against black neighborhoods. U.S...
Georgia Considers Scrapping Immunity for Emergency Doctors
Mar 20 2007 // Families like the Fretwells seem to be forgotten in the annual turf war between doctors and lawyers in Georgia’s Capitol over who should be protected from malpractice lawsuits. Like others, Rodney and Sherry Fretwell...
Fall 2008 Trial Set for New Orleans Navigation Channel Suit
Mar 19 2007 // A federal judge in Louisiana has set a trial date for late 2008 to hear a lawsuit over a navigation channel built and operated by the Army Corps of Engineers that contributed to the flooding of St. Bernard Parish and New...
Lawsuit Reform Bills Advance in Okla. Senate
Mar 15 2007 // The evenly divided Oklahoma Senate recently passed three key lawsuit reform measures, according to a Senate announcement. Senate Republican leaders said they are negotiating with Senate Democrats and leaders of the House...
N.J. High Court: Public Workers Can Sue Negligent Property Owners
Mar 15 2007 // The New Jersey Supreme Court this week ruled that when police and firefighters get hurt handling an emergency, they can sue and win compensation if negligence contributed to the injury. The unanimous decision by New...
Aon Settles Benfield Suit
Mar 13 2007 // Aon Re Global, the Chicago-based broker’s provider of reinsurance brokerage services and integrated capital solutions, announced that it has reached “a global and comprehensive settlement with Benfield Group of...
Man Sues for $1.6 Billion Over Rights to Sponge Bob Square Pants
Mar 13 2007 // Troy Walker claims he created Bob Spongee, an unemployed cartoon sponge who lived with his family on Apple street, in 1991. So in 2002 when Walker saw Nickelodeon’s “Sponge Bob Square Pants,” a wildly...
Jury Awards $17 Million Against American Family in Aftermarket Parts Lawsuit in Mo.
Mar 12 2007 // American Family Mutual Insurance Co. was ordered to pay $17 million as part of a class-action lawsuit over aftermarket vehicle parts in Missouri. Following a 3 1/2-week trial, a Jackson County jury determined American...
La.’s Citizens Agrees to Mass Settlement of Hurricane Suits
Mar 12 2007 // Louisiana’s state-run insurer has agreed to a mass settlement with more than 100 policyholders, a deal believed to be the first of its kind in the state since hurricanes Katrina and Rita spawned thousands of...
Judge Senter weighs binding arbitration in Miss. State Farm Katrina settlement
Mar 12 2007 // U.S. District Judge L.T. Senter Jr., the federal judge weighing competing plans to resolve thousands of disputed claims in Mississippi against State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. after Hurricane Katrina, held a hearing...
Computer Data Bugs Lead to Shakeup, Lawsuit by La.’s Citizens
Mar 9 2007 // With its financial records in disarray, Louisiana’s state-run insurance company of last resort will get a new chief administrator and beef up its management with a chief financial officer and internal auditor,...
Settlement in Katrina Lawsuit Over Damage to Miss. Rental Home
Mar 8 2007 // A federal trial ended abruptly Tuesday when State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. settled out of court with a couple who sued the company over Hurricane Katrina damages to a rental home they own. U.S. District Judge Peter...
Insurance Company Sues Contractor Behind Botched I-84 project in Conn.
Mar 8 2007 // The insurance company that guaranteed a contractor’s work on the apparently botched widening of Interstate 84 in the Waterbury area is suing, claiming company officials siphoned off millions of dollars for personal...
Lawsuit Reform Measures Pass Okla. House Committee
Mar 7 2007 // A House committee on Mar. 6 passed two measures aimed at providing comprehensive lawsuit reform in Oklahoma: House Bill 1620 ,authored by Rep. Rob Johnson (R-Kingfisher), and House Bill 1475, authored by Rep. Doug Cox...
Iowa Lawsuit Alleging Fatal Fire from Ford Pickup Settled
Mar 7 2007 // An eastern Iowa man whose wife died in a fire he said was caused by a Ford pickup truck has settled a lawsuit with the auto manufacturer. Earl Mohlis, 78, said Monday he still cries over the loss of his wife, Darletta...
Federal Jury Exonerates Montana Ski Area in Injury Lawsuit
Mar 6 2007 // A northwestern Montana ski resort was not negligent in an accident that injured a 6-year-old boy, a U.S. District Court jury decided. The seven-member jury’s unanimous verdict means that Paul and Deb Stamey will...
