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Enron’s legacies and directors and officers risk
Jan 28 2007 // Shortly after former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling’s Oct. 23, 2006, sentencing, the Enron Task Force said it was closing down, with its mission mostly complete. Yet did that event really signal an endpoint in the Enron...
Federal Judge Puts Part of State Farm Katrina Settlement on Hold
Jan 27 2007 // The federal judge who must sign off on a proposed $50 million class action settlement involving State Farm’s handling of Hurricane Katrina claims has said he needs lots more information before agreeing to the deal...
State Farm Storm Surge Settlement Could Scare Insurers from Mississippi Market
Jan 26 2007 // A landmark legal settlement with State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. promises to jump-start the rebuilding process for thousands of Mississippi homeowners devastated by Hurricane Katrina, but critics warn the deal could...
Ex-Pats’, Current Notre Dame Coach Files Suit Over Obesity Surgery
Jan 26 2007 // Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis’ medical malpractice lawsuit against two doctors involved in his near-fatal gastric bypass surgery is scheduled to start in Suffolk Superior Court next month. Weis had the surgery in...
R.I. High Court Throws Out Lawsuit Based on Bad Job Reference
Jan 24 2007 // Rhode Island’s highest court this week dismissed a lawsuit filed by a licensed nurse who sued her former boss over a bad job reference. Paula Kevorkian said Judith Glass, her former supervisor at the Pawtuxet Village...
State Farm Settles Miss. Katrina Lawsuits; Agrees to Reopen Other Miss. Claims
Jan 24 2007 // State Farm Insurance has agreed to settle a Mississippi class action brought by more than 600 policyholders involving property claims related to Hurricane Katrina and reopen thousands of additional Katrina claims. There is...
Mich. Court Orders $10 Million Settlement in Sterling Heights Suit
Jan 24 2007 // In a written opinion issued January 19, 2007, United States District Court Judge Nancy G. Edmunds of the Eastern District of Michigan has ordered United National Insurance Co. to pay the city of Sterling Heights over $10...
Ex-State Farm Adjusters Tell Miss. Grand Jury of Katrina Claims
Jan 23 2007 // A Mississippi grand jury probing State Farm Insurance Co.’s handling of claims after Hurricane Katrina heard testimony this week from two sisters who turned over reams of internal claims records to investigators...
Even Consumer Reports Fallible As Retraction on Car Seats Shows
Jan 23 2007 // Consumer Reports once mismeasured the ingredients in dog food. Just last year, it screwed up the depreciation rates of hybrid cars. But it’s rare for the trusted, independent Consumer Reports to go as wrong as it did...
Mich. Attorney General Urges Judge to Toss Calif. Global Warming Suit
Jan 23 2007 // Michigan’s attorney general has joined six automakers in asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit by California that accuses them of harming human health and the environment by producing vehicles that contribute...
State Farm Settles a Miss. Katrina Lawsuit Before Trial
Jan 22 2007 // State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. settled out of court last Friday with a Mississippi policyholder whose lawsuit over Hurricane Katrina damage was scheduled to be tried next week in federal court. State Farm settled with...
MySpace Sued by Families of Children Abused by Adults Met on the Site
Jan 22 2007 // Four families have sued News Corp. and its MySpace social-networking site after their underage daughters were sexually abused by adults they met on the site, according to lawyers for the families. The law firms, Barry...
Ill. Madigan Joins Suit Against Radiology Centers over Kickbacks
Jan 18 2007 // Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan today intervened in a lawsuit against several Chicago area radiology centers over their payment of illegal kickbacks to referring doctors. The complaint alleges that the radiology...
Pa. Maternity Clothier Settles Suit Alleging Bias Against Pregnant Workers
Jan 17 2007 // A Pennsylvania maternity-clothing retailer has agreed to pay $375,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging it refused to hire qualified applicants because they were pregnant — and then fired an assistant manager who complained...
Catholic Healthcare West Agrees to Settlement
Jan 16 2007 // A Superior Court judge has approved a settlement providing as much as $423 million in refunds and discounts to nearly 800,000 uninsured patients at Catholic Healthcare West hospitals. The nonprofit company operates 43...
P/C Execs Expect Terrorism Insurance Renewal, Win in Katrina Suits
Jan 11 2007 // Leaders of the property/casualty insurance industry expect Congress to extend the Terrorism Risk and Insurance Act in 2007, according to a survey conducted by the Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.) at its 11th annual...
Mass. High Court: Paralyzed Patron Can Sue Bar
Jan 11 2007 // A man paralyzed in a car crash after a night of underage drinking can sue the bars that served him alcohol, the state’s highest court has ruled. The Supreme Judicial Court rejected claims by Robert Nunez that two...
Minn. Suit Alleges Seniors Hurt by Lack of Information about Annuities
Jan 11 2007 // Lois Klofanda was 85 years old when she sunk almost half her life savings into a deferred annuity from Allianz Life Insurance Co. of North America, not realizing she wouldn’t be able to get at the money again for a...
Judge Orders 83 Katrina Claims Cases, Including Sen. Lott’s, to Mediation
Jan 11 2007 // A federal judge on Wednesday ordered into mediation dozens of lawsuits policyholders filed against insurance companies after Hurricane Katrina. Several of the cases sent to mediation, which accuse the insurance companies...
Miss. Jury Hears Opening Statements in Katrina Suit Against State Farm
Jan 10 2007 // Even as the Mississippi attorney general negotiates a potential settlement with State Farm Fire & Casualty Co., an eight-person jury began hearing opening statements Tuesday in one of hundreds of insurance lawsuits...
