Latest Lawsuits Headlines
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State Fund Files Lawsuit Against Calif. Commissioner, CDI
May 28 2003 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund filed a lawsuit May 28 against the California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi and the California Department of Insurance (CDI) requesting a court-ordered...
Asbestos Litigation Reform Bill Introduced
May 27 2003 // Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) introduced asbestos litigation reform legislation last week that is reportedly intended to create a fair and efficient system to resolve claims of victims for bodily...
The Hartford Launches Agent Suite of Transactions Using XDTI
May 21 2003 // The Hartford Financial Services Group has introduced a suite of transactions for independent agents who use XDimensional Technologies’ (XDTI) Nexsure agency management system, further increasing agents’ ease of...
Wash. Woman Files Bad Faith Lawsuit Against Farmers Ins.
May 16 2003 // A Redmond, Wash. woman filed a bad faith lawsuit against Farmers Insurance Company of Washington (Farmers) accusing the company of systematically using a computer program called “Colossus” to provide an...
Insurance Class-Action Defense Group Joins Sidley’s Chicago Office
May 9 2003 // An attorney group focused on the defense of insurance companies against class actions has joined law firm of Sidley Austin Brown & Wood. Joel S. Feldman and Bruce Braverman have become partners in Sidley’s...
GAINSCO Says Lawsuit Is Without Merit
May 8 2003 // GAINSCO INC. said that securities litigation has been filed in United States District Court, Southern District of Florida against the company and two of its officers (one of whom is also a director). The plaintiffs seek...
Report Silverstein Sues GE Sub over Rebuilding 7 World Trade Center
May 8 2003 // Larry Silverstein has reportedly gone to court to try and recover an additional $420 million from Industrial Risk Insurers, a subsidiary of GE Capital, to complete the cost of rebuilding 7 World Trade Center. The building,...
Calif. Commissioner Addresses Needs for Reform to Workers’ Comp
May 6 2003 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi spoke recently to the Assembly Insurance Committee in Sacramento. Below are his comments as provided by the Calif. Department of Insurance. Chairman Vargas and Committee...
Full Speed Ahead
May 5 2003 // A year ago, Lloyd’s course was “steady as she goes,” following the enormous losses of Sept. 11, but with the appointment of a new chairman last November, Lord Peter Levene of Portsoken, coupled with a...
Full Speed Ahead
May 5 2003 // A year ago, Lloyd’s course was “steady as she goes,” following the enormous losses of Sept. 11, but with the appointment of a new chairman last November, Lord Peter Levene of Portsoken, coupled with a...
Tort Reform Advocates Strike While Iron is Hot
May 5 2003 // Only weeks ago it seemed that a series of well-publicized doctor walkouts across the nation had led not only to political pressure to enact malpractice award caps in crisis states but action at the national level as well....
Brief Filed for Sex Harassment Class Action Against Aon Subsidiary
May 5 2003 // A brief filed Friday supporting class certification in sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuit against an Aon subsidiary, Combined Insurance Co. of America, included excerpts from 128 declarations signed by former and...
Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against GAINSCO
Apr 29 2003 // Dallas-based GAINSCO INC. was hit with a class action lawsuit, filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida on behalf of purchasers of the company’s publicly traded securities during...
ZFS Notes Dismissal of Holocaust Class Action
Apr 28 2003 // Zurich Financial Services announced that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has dismissed with prejudice the class action brought by several Holocaust victims against member companies of the...
Mitchell Believes CCC Patent Lawsuit Has No Merit
Apr 24 2003 // Insurance software provider CCC Information Services Inc. filed suit against Mitchell International in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois alleging that certain Mitchell software products,...
Senate Judiciary Comm. Passes Class Action Reform
Apr 14 2003 // The Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday passed S. 274, the Class Action Fairness Act of 2003, legislation that would reportedly help rein in out-of-control class action awards by limiting the practice of “venue...
Lloyd’s Chairman Blasts U.S. “Litigious Culture”
Apr 9 2003 // “The U.S. litigation system, if left unchecked, will destroy the American spirit of enterprise and drain the U.S. economy,” was the stark message given by Lloyd’s Chairman Lord Peter Levene in a speech...
InsureVianet Expands State Availability for Exec. Liab. Suite
Apr 8 2003 // InsureVianet announced it has expanded the number of states for its online Executive Liability Suite by 16 additional states and the District of Columbia, bringing to 38 the total number of states in which the company...
Judge Rules in Favor of State Fund in A&J Liquor Class Action Suit
Apr 8 2003 // A tentative ruling in the class action lawsuit A&J Liquor Co. Inc., et al v. State Compensation Insurance Fund found in favor of California’s largest workers’ comp insurer April 7. San Francisco Superior...
NYC Mayor Warns WTC Liability Suits Could Bankrupt City
Apr 2 2003 // New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg told the committee investigating the Sept. 11 attacks that personal injury lawsuits against the city by persons claiming they’ve suffered long-term health damage as a result of the...
