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La. Bill Would Extend Time to File Hurricane Insurance Lawsuits
May 17 2006 // Addressing a looming insurance deadline that could affect thousands of homeowners and businesses, the Louisiana House of Representatives passed a bill to give insurance claimants an extra year to file a lawsuit over...
Scruggs Sues Allstate for Denying Katrina Claims
May 15 2006 // Allstate Insurance Co. has been sued for allegedly denying rightful claims of hurricane-damaged homes. Lawyer Richard Scruggs filed the lawsuit Friday in federal court on behalf of 310 Allstate policyholders allegedly...
State Farm Sued by Gulf Coast Homeowners Over Katrina Claims
May 11 2006 // A lawsuit filed by more than 650 Gulf Coast homeowners accuses State Farm Insurance Co. of using a “one-size-fits-all” engineering report as the basis for refusing to cover damage to homes destroyed by...
Tobacco-trial Lawyer ‘Poster Child’ for Katrina Insurance
May 10 2006 // A private jet is waiting for Richard Scruggs, but first the millionaire lawyer wants to squeeze in a quick lunch. Smiles and nods greet him as he walks into Lu-Cher Doe’s Diner, a soul food restaurant down the street...
Case Law Watch
May 8 2006 // Tenant’s PolicyMinges Creek, LLC v. Royal Insurance Company of America (6th Cir. [Mich.] April 6, 2006) Ruling: Mall owner was not entitled to additional insured status on mall tenant’s policy for accident...
Case Law Watch
May 8 2006 // Tenant’s Policy Minges Creek, LLC v. Royal Insurance Company of America (6th Cir. [Mich.] April 6, 2006) Ruling: Mall owner was not entitled to additional insured status on mall tenant’s policy for accident...
Pa. Meat Company Settles Listeria Suits
May 7 2006 // Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. has settled four wrongful-death or injury lawsuits involving the deadly 2002 listeria outbreak that was linked to one of its plants, the meat company announced. The second food company tied to...
La. Judge Steps Down from Suit Against Last-Resort Insurer
May 5 2006 // A judge has disqualified herself from a lawsuit brought by policyholders against Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. Civil District Judge June Darensburg said she found out she has a policy from Louisiana Citizens,...
Title Insurance Lawsuit Names New Mexico Insurance Superintendent
May 4 2006 // New Mexico’s suspended Insurance Superintendent Eric Serna, under investigation over a bank contract, is named in a lawsuit that alleges title insurance firms sought to persuade him to raise rates by donating to a...
Lawsuit Seeks Contested Elections for N.D.’s Nodak Mutual Board
May 4 2006 // Fargo, N.D.-based Nodak Mutual Insurance Co.’s directors have ignored appeals to allow contested elections for the company’s board, according to a lawsuit that seeks to overhaul how its directors are chosen....
Ark. Seeks to Intervene in Okla. Poultry Lawsuit
May 3 2006 // Ark. Attorney General Mike has asked an Oklahoma court to allow his office to represent the people and sovereign interests of the State of Arkansas in the lawsuit filed by Oklahoma against Arkansas poultry companies. If...
Judges Step Aside From Jefferson Parish, La., Flood Suits
May 3 2006 // All 16 state district judges in Jefferson Parish, La., have disqualified themselves from hearing class-action lawsuits filed by property owners who blame parish government for post-Hurricane Katrina flooding that damaged...
N.J. Court: Worker Can Sue Exxon Over Spouse’s Death
Apr 27 2006 // A retired steamfitter who claims his asbestos-contaminated work clothes caused his wife’s death can sue Exxon Mobil, owner of a refinery where he worked, New Jersey’s Supreme Court ruled. The oil company should...
Mich. Legislature Considers Asbestos Litigation Reform, Insurer Group Says
Apr 27 2006 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America says that the Michigan Legislature is considering litigation reform regarding asbestos claims. According to Chicago-based PCI, Michigan has looked at the efforts of...
Judge Sues Nationwide for Denying His Claim After Katrina
Apr 21 2006 // A federal judge in Gulfport, Miss., who would have presided over homeowners’ lawsuits against insurance companies after Hurricane Katrina is waging his own battle against the insurer of his Gulf Coast home. U.S....
Vermont Church Settles Abuse Lawsuit
Apr 21 2006 // A lawsuit filed by a former altar boy who claimed he was sexually abused by a Catholic priest in the 1970s has been settled for $965,000 as the case was due to go to trial. Michael Gay, 38, of South Burlington had claimed...
Revised La. Lawsuit Cites ‘Incompetence’ of Federal Government, U.S. Corps of Engineers
Apr 20 2006 // Plaintiffs seeking more than $1 billion in damages in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are calling the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet a “Hurricane Highway” that allowed a 20-foot storm surge to inundate much...
Okla. Court OKs Class Action Status in Suit Against Farmers Group Companies
Apr 18 2006 // A judge in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma has granted class action status to a lawsuit concerning the use of credit information in insurance rating against Farmers Insurance Companies. U.S....
By Charles J. Grimsley
Apr 17 2006 // The no-fault deadline decision In 2006, Florida legislators will make the biggest decision affecting automobile insurance that any legislature has had to make in 35 years, specifically, whether to re-enact or sunset the...
Judge rejects Allstate request to dismiss hurricane lawsuit
Apr 17 2006 // The company (Allstate) “is pleased that the judge ruled, ‘The exclusions found in the policy for water damage and for damages attributable to flooding are valid and enforceable policy provisions,'”...
