Latest Lawsuits Headlines
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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...
Ark. Lawsuit Accuses Propane Supplier of Negligence in Blast
Jan 10 2007 // The wife of a man severely burned in an explosion three years ago at Detco Industries Inc. in Conway, Ark., has sued the plant’s supplier of propane gas, saying the supplier didn’t properly inspect Detco or...
Foie Gras Ban in Chicago Yields No Citations, Restaurants Sue
Jan 10 2007 // About five months after Chicago restaurants were ordered to stop selling foie gras, the city has yet to levy its first fine. While some pricey restaurants around the city have taken the goose or duck liver delicacy off...
ACE USA Releases D&O Risk Management Podcast
Jan 9 2007 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of the ACE Group of Companies, has launched the second in an occasional series of audio “podcasts,” or Internet-distributed audio programs, discussing selected...
Enron’s legacies and directors’ and officers’ risk
Jan 8 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...
Miss. AG’s Katrina case moved to state court
Jan 8 2007 // A federal judge agreed to transfer Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood’s lawsuit against insurance companies over Hurricane Katrina damages from federal to state court. U.S. District Judge L.T. Senter Jr. ruled...
Case Law Watch
Jan 8 2007 // Cancellation and Nonrenewal John Gibson Auto Sales Inc. v. Direct Insurance Company (Ark. App., Div. III and IV, Dec. 20, 2006) Arkansas statute deemed inapplicable. Insured brought suit against insurer for denial of auto...
Miss. AG’s Katrina case moved to state courts
Jan 8 2007 // A federal judge agreed in late December to transfer Missis-sippi Attorney General Jim Hood’s lawsuit against insurance companies over Hurricane Katrina damages from federal to state court. U.S. District Judge L.T....
N.H. private school says insurer didn’t do flood insurance homework; sues for buildings’ damages
Jan 8 2007 // St. Paul’s School in Concord, N.H. has filed a lawsuit accusing its insurer of refusing to cover most of the $5 million the school has spent repairing buildings and grounds damaged by flooding. In May, floodwaters...
AJG resolves federal class action case
Jan 8 2007 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has agreed to resolve all claims in the Federal Multi-District class action pending in the New Jersey Federal District Court against commercial insurers and brokers relating to industry-wide...
N.Y., Conn., Ill. AGs bring another suit, this time against Acordia
Jan 8 2007 // The attorneys general of Connecticut, Illinois and New York continued their campaign against undisclosed compensation and account steering by simultaneously bringing suit against one of the nation’s largest insurance...
N.H. private school says insurer didn’t do flood insurance homework; sues for buildings’ damages
Jan 7 2007 // St. Paul’s School in Concord, N.H. has filed a lawsuit accusing its insurer of refusing to cover most of the $5 million the school has spent repairing buildings and grounds damaged by flooding. In May, floodwaters...
Miss. AG’s Katrina case moved to state court
Jan 7 2007 // A federal judge agreed to transfer Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood’s lawsuit against insurance companies over Hurricane Katrina damages from federal to state court. U.S. District Judge L.T. Senter Jr. ruled...
Case Law Watch
Jan 7 2007 // Cancellation and Nonrenewal John Gibson Auto Sales Inc. v. Direct Insurance Company (Ark. App., Div. III and IV, Dec. 20, 2006) Arkansas statute deemed inapplicable. Insured brought suit against insurer for denial of auto...
News Currents
Jan 7 2007 // Miss. AG’s Katrina case moved to state courts A federal judge agreed in late December to transfer Missis-sippi Attorney General Jim Hood’s lawsuit against insurance companies over Hurricane Katrina damages from...
