A Mississippi judge is asking a federal appeals court to restore his immunity from being sued over claims that he knowingly making false claims to authorities. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals scheduled arguments for Dec. 6 in New …
An insurance company wants former Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Oliver Diaz kicked off a lawsuit involving imprisoned former attorney Paul Minor. Minor, meanwhile, also thinks the federal judge in the case should step down because he’s the same judge who …
Many of Alabama’s personal and commercial lines insurers have established the Alabama Insurance Information Service (AIIS), a not-for-profit, non-lobbying trade association to provide news and information to the public. AIIS is based in Montgomery and plans to work primarily through …
In a letter dated Nov. 17, 2010, Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell challenged provisions of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF) Draft Protocol for Interim and Final Claims that ask claimants to sign a broad release of their rights in …
Chemical company DuPont last week offered to pay $70 million and spend millions more on medical monitoring for the next 30 years to end a legal battle over a toxic exposure case it lost in West Virginia. The proposal drew …
A Kanawha County Circuit Court judge has upheld a state law giving coal mine operators 15 minutes to tell regulators about fires and other serious accidents. Judge Tod Kaufman’s ruling came in a case involving International Coal Group subsidiary Wolf …
Reports on a federal board’s investigations of fatal incidents at two West Virginia chemical plants won’t be released until next year. The U.S. Chemical Safety Board is investigating a 2008 explosion at Bayer Corp.’s Institute facility that killed one worker …
The state’s Workers’ Compensation Commission broke state law by not depositing fines as it worried legislators would use the money for something else, according to a state audit. The commission collected but delayed for weeks depositing $244,000, the Legislative Audit …
Brightway Insurance recently acquired General Insurance Concepts, a 20-year-old property and casualty insurance agency offering personal and commercial lines of insurance. The company’s offices, located in Orange Park, Fla., will become Brightway’s 23rd northeast Florida location. Brightway Insurance operates 70 …
Federal prosecutors say the fraud conviction of former Cicero, Ill., president Betty Loren-Maltese should stand, even after a U.S. Supreme Court decision on “honest services” laws. Loren-Maltese served 6 1/2 years in prison for fleecing taxpayers of more than $12 …
