The Army Corps of Engineers built a “tragically flawed” levee system for New Orleans – but isn’t liable for claims that excavation work by a government contractor weakened a floodwall and caused it to breach in two places during Hurricane …
State officials stalled a decision on whether Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort should borrow $100 million to help close an anticipated budget gap. The Bond Commission, which includes lawmakers and statewide elected officials, didn’t take any action on the …
Two former guests of a Southern California hotel where a 21-year-old woman’s corpse was found floating in a rooftop water tank have sued. A lawsuit was filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court against the proprietors of Los Angeles’ Cecil …
The state of Hawaii has agreed to pay $5 million to settle a sex assault lawsuit at the Hawaii Center for the Deaf and the Blind. Hawaii News Now reported the settlement means the Kapahulu school will remain open. Attorney …
When it comes to complex employment-related legal disputes, 2012 will be considered a landmark year, according to a new report on employment class action litigation. Many of the key rulings of 2012 in class action cases hinged on the U.S. …
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider the constitutionality of a legal tactic that can make it harder for companies to defend against class-action lawsuits, in a case it will review in the term that starts on Oct. …
A small East Texas town and the county where it’s situated will implement procedures aimed at stopping racial profiling to settle a class action lawsuit that accuses former officials of shaking down innocent motorists for cash, according to documents filed …
Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort has paid a $104 million judgment in a case involving more than 18,500 policyholders who sued over slow adjustment of claims after hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck in 2005. Plaintiffs’ attorney Fred Herman said …
Honda Motor Co. has won the reversal of a $9,867 small-claims judgment awarded to an owner who claimed the Japanese automaker fraudulently overstated the fuel economy of her Civic hybrid car. The decision by California Superior Court Judge Dudley Gray …
They were learning to become truck drivers but wound up in a nightmare. In detailed accounts to a federal agency, dozens of female employees of an Iowa-based trucking company, one of the largest in the nation, told of being propositioned, …
