Latest Lawsuits Headlines
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U.S.I. Holdings Corp. Targeted in Class Action Suit
Oct 21 2004 // U.S.I. Holdings Corporation reported on Thursday that the company has been named in a class action suit filed in New York on behalf a client of a Marsh & McLennan subsidiary against the 10 largest U.S. insurance...
Evaluating Overcharges: Should Your Company Pursue Claims Against Brokers and Carriers’
Oct 20 2004 // Editor’s note: This is a commentary piece submitted by David E. Wood of the law firm Wood & Bender. The recent suit by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer alleging price-fixing and deceptive practices by...
Impact of Spitzer Broker Fraud Charges Felt at Marsh and Beyond
Oct 18 2004 // New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s filing last Thursday of charges against giant insurance broker Marsh for alleged commercial account steering and bid rigging has already had significant impact on Marsh and...
Tyco Execs Sue Insurer Over Legal Fees
Oct 15 2004 // The two former top executives of Tyco International who face a retrial in January on charges of looting the conglomerate of $600 million have sued to force an insurance company to pay their legal bills. Former Tyco chief...
New York AG Sues Marsh Over Contingent Commissions, Cites Insurers Over Alleged Bid-Rigging
Oct 14 2004 // New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer on Oct. 14 sued Marsh & McLennan Companies, the nation’s biggest insurance brokerage firm, alleging that it steered clients to insurers with whom it had lucrative...
Supreme Court Debates Pollution Lawsuits
Oct 12 2004 // The Supreme Court considered last week whether companies that voluntarily seek to clean up their polluted land can sue former owners to get help with the costs. The case could have important ramifications for communities...
Farmers Sues L.A. Body Shop for Alleged Fraud
Oct 11 2004 // Farmers Insurance Exchange has begun serving civil summons and complaints upon a Los Angeles body shop and its director, accusing them of taking part in a scheme designed to defraud Farmers and its policyholders. The civil...
CORRECTION: State Farm Loses Supreme Court Appeal Over Lawsuit
Oct 8 2004 // The final paragraph of the article “State Farm Loses Supreme Court Appeal Over Lawsuit” contains information that is incomplete and therefore inaccurate. The paragraph reads: The company says its practices have...
Cheney, Edwards Spar Over Medical Liability Issue During VP Debate
Oct 6 2004 // Around and around they went. For some 90 minutes, Vice President Dick Cheney and North Carolina Sen. John Edwards debated and most often, disagreed on the issues, during the first and only Vice Presidential debate Tuesday...
State Farm Loses Supreme Court Appeal over Lawsuit
Oct 6 2004 // The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear the appeal of one of Utah’s highest-profile court cases, perhaps ending a decades-long legal battle over a claim brought by a couple against their insurance agency. The...
Allstate the Winner in Texas Chiropractic Lawsuit
Oct 1 2004 // A Dallas jury ruled on Friday that Texas’ largest chiropractic chain, Accident & Injury Pain Center Inc., reportedly conspired in a statewide scheme designed to defraud Allstate Insurance Company and Encompass...
After Open Records Suit, General Casualty/Rhinelander, Wis. Settlement Released
Sep 29 2004 // Details of the settlement of a lawsuit between the town of Rhinelander, Wis., and General Casualty Insurance Cos. over cleanup of a former city landfill were released Friday after an open records lawsuit. The Sun Prairie,...
Okla. AG Files Suit Against Telemarketer Selling Identity Theft Protection
Sep 29 2004 // The Oklahoma attorney general’s office filed a lawsuit against an Arizona telemarketing company after the company allegedly offered Oklahoma consumers a bogus identity theft protection service, Attorney General Drew...
U.S. Human Services Chief Thompson Hopes ‘Early Offers’ Pilot Will Reduce Medical Error Litigation
Sep 22 2004 // Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy G. Thompson has announced an “Early Offers” pilot program aimed at encouraging settlements of patients claiming to have been injured by medical mistakes. HHS...
ME. GUN MAKER SETTLES SNIPER SUIT:
Sep 20 2004 // A rifle manufacturer’s decision to pay $550,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by victims and victims’ families in the Washington, D.C.-area sniper shootings is a first, according to a gun control lawyer. Bushmaster...
N.Y., N.J. PORT AUTHORITY JOINS SUIT:
Sep 20 2004 // The government agency that owns the World Trade Center site said it intends to hold Saudi Arabia and nearly 100 other defendants liable for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people and...
Thermography: Claims Adjudication’s Science of the Future
Sep 20 2004 // Millions of dollars worth of building defect litigation is going on today, and water intrusion, which often causes mold to grow, is one of the major issues. Infrared (IR) thermography, the non-destructive diagnostic...
Ivan Sets His Sights on Gulf Coast; Residents from Florida to Louisiana Get Suitcases Packed
Sep 14 2004 // Having left a swath of destruction from Grenada to Cuba, Hurricane Ivan turned its sights on the Florida Panhandle west to New Orleans on Tuesday, forcing thousands to pack what they could and head for higher ground. More...
NAMIC Applauds Passage of Tort Reform Bill
Sep 14 2004 // On Tuesday, by a vote of 229-174, the House of Representatives favorably approved H.R. 4571, the Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act of 2004. H.R. 4571 would amend Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to penalize...
Ind. ‘Diminished Value’ Class-Action Case Could Set Dangerous Precedent, Insurers Argue
Sep 14 2004 // Indiana Supreme Court justices should carefully consider the impact that a class-action case regarding compensation for the diminished value of a vehicle could have on numerous insurance policies and premiums—and...
