Latest Lawsuits Headlines
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Asbestos: Over 500,000 Claimants and $21 Billion and Counting
Aug 20 2001 // The RAND Institute for Civil Justice (ICJ) began analyzing asbestos litigation in the early 1980s in a study that was the first to examine the costs and compensation paid for asbestos personal injury claims. Other reports...
Insurer Files Cell Phone Coverage Lawsuits
Aug 20 2001 // According to Mealy Publications, a trio of insurance coverage lawsuits related to cell phone personal injury litigation have been filed in recent weeks. Zurich-American Insurance Co. on July 23 filed actions in New York...
Coverages for Contractor’s Work In Doubt
Aug 20 2001 // The typical CGL policy provides coverage for damage resulting from an “occurrence,” but includes a number of exclusions which limit coverage for an insured’s own work. Exceptions are provided, however,...
Asbestos Claims: ‘The Shroud Over the Industry’
Aug 20 2001 // Jim Hickey, the founder of the Environmental Insurance Agency in Portland, described environmental claims in general and asbestos claims in particular as “the shroud over the industry,” or harbingers of...
Workers’ Compensation Lawsuit Given Class Action Status
Aug 20 2001 // Houston-based U.S. District Judge David Hittner issued a ruling Aug. 8 conferring class action status on a lawsuit involving claims of overcharging for workers’ compensation coverage by Reliance National Indemnity...
Gunmakers Can’t Be Sued for Criminal Acts of Gun Buyers
Aug 9 2001 // Victims cannot sue gunmakers when criminals use their products illegally, the California Supreme Court ruled Aug. 6. According to AP Online, the 5-1 decision, which rejects a suit based on the 1993 massacre of eight people...
Agents and Coverage Opinions
Aug 6 2001 // Insurance intermediaries—agents, brokers, and the like—do all sorts of things for their customers and clients. They help them select coverages. They help select insurers. They shop for price. They prepare applications....
Court Affirms Noninsured Can’t Sue Insurer for Alleged Negligence to Policyholder
Aug 3 2001 // The California Court of Appeal has affirmed a ruling that a person not covered by an insurance policy cannot sue the insurer for alleged negligence for delaying payment to the person who is insured. The ruling in Adelman...
Bridgestone/Firestone Settles Almost 40% of Personal Injury Suits
Jul 25 2001 // Nashville-based Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. has reportedly settled approximately 40 percent of personal-injury lawsuits filed against the company over its recalled Wilderness AT and ATX tires. According to an AP article,...
Horace Mann Finalizes Settlement in Insurance Lawsuit
Jul 20 2001 // Illinois-based Horace Mann has submitted a settlement deal to the court regarding a class action suit, which was levied against the company from customers who purchased a variety of disability policies. The parties...
Court Decides for DCM in Lawsuit over Misappropriation of Trade Secrets
Jul 20 2001 // The California Superior Court in Santa Ana entered judgment on March 12, 2001, in favor of Direct Contact Marketing (DCM), exonerating its CEO, Darren Clevenger, and its sales manager, Dion Gutierrez, of allegations in a...
Horace Mann Finalizes Settlement in Insurance Lawsuit
Jul 18 2001 // Illinois-based Horace Mann has submitted a settlement deal to the court regarding a class action suit that was levied against the company from customers who purchased a variety of disability policies. The parties involved...
NJ Man Drops Airbag Lawsuit, as Revelations Raise Questions
Jul 9 2001 // Eric V. Thomas, a New Jersey Dentist, has dropped his suit against the Ford Motor Company following revelations which put in question the cause of his wife’s death in an auto accident in 1997, and established that he...
SilkAir Insurers Sue Over 1997 Crash
Jul 9 2001 // Singapore Aviation and General Insurance Company has filed two lawsuits, one in New York, and the other in Los Angeles, seeking some $55 million in damages from Boeing and several aircraft component manufacturers related...
Lawsuit Alleging Race Discrimination in Nursing Home Settled for $1.2M
Jul 9 2001 // Beverly Enterprises Inc., the nation’s largest operator of nursing homes, will pay $1.2 million to settle a racial discrimination lawsuit, according to an Associated Press story. Nine former workers claimed that...
Class-Action Status Up In Smoke in Tobacco Suits
Jul 9 2001 // Four lawsuits that were filed against tobacco companies were turned down in a bid for class-action certification following the decision of a federal judge who stated the claims had individual issues. Industry experts,...
MetLife Ordered To Respond to Rate Discrimination Suit
Jun 27 2001 // A U.S. District Court Judge on Tuesday ordered MetLife Inc. to respond to charges that it consistently charged black Americans higher premiums than whites for low cost life insurance and burial policies. By failing to...
CLASS ACTION FILED OVER CAP PLAN
Jun 25 2001 // The law firm of Dwyer & Collora LLP announced that on June 8, Federal Judge Robert E. Keeton of the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts certified state classes for four states, including Massachusetts and...
New Lawsuit Against Crédit Lyonnais – French Gov’t. Responds
Jun 21 2001 // California Attorney General Bill Lockyer’s lawsuit against Crédit Lyonnais (CL) and a number of other defendants, filed Tuesday in San Francisco, is the latest legal action involving the French bank and its...
Class Action Suit Filed Against Salomon Smith Barney, Citigroup and Travelers Group
Jun 19 2001 // The law firm of Dwyer & Collora LLP announced that on Friday, June 8, 2001, Federal Judge Robert E. Keeton of the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts certified state classes for four states, including Massachusetts...
