All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 19 2016 // Many property/casualty insurance carriers have focused their charitable efforts on veterans, and they’ve done so for a number of good reasons.One important reason for adopting veterans causes was explained by Glenn...
Dec 16 2016 // Christmas is right around the corner, meaning that the time has come for the usual passel of lawsuits and threats of lawsuits, of bitter division over words and symbols — in short, of all the usual trimmings of the...
Dec 16 2016 // A worker is fighting one of Mississippi’s largest industries in a skirmish over who can be sued when employees suffer on-the-job injuries.The Mississippi Supreme Court Tuesday heard arguments in a suit by Quindon...
Dec 15 2016 // A state appeals court in Cleveland, Ohio, has ruled that the widow of a former Notre Dame football player can proceed with claims in a lawsuit that said her husband was disabled by and ultimately died from...
Dec 15 2016 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to decide whether to limit where patent lawsuits may be filed, potentially threatening a years-long trend that critics say allows frequent and often-baseless litigants to sue in...
Dec 15 2016 // A Vermont ski resort owner is suing his insurer in federal court for more than $2 million to fund his legal defense against fraud accusations brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission.Jay Peak owner Ariel Quiros...
Dec 13 2016 // Two women are suing a groom and the event company that ran his wedding reception after they allege he flew a drone that hit them in the head at the New Hampshire event.Kneena Ellis, of Seabrook, and Kelly Eaton of Peabody,...
Dec 13 2016 // An appeals court has cleared the way for refiling of a lawsuit against an engineering firm in the deaths of four people killed in flash flooding in Pittsburgh more than five years ago.Judge R. Stanton Wettick Jr. earlier...
Dec 13 2016 // For DuPont Co. and its Chemours Co. spinoff, hundreds of millions of dollars hinge on the interpretation of the word “among.”A Cincinnati appeals court heard arguments Friday that will affect the fate of...
Dec 13 2016 // Assignment of benefits abuse has become such a well-known problem in the state of Florida this year that it now just goes by the nickname “AOB.”The issue with AOB comes from when a policyholder suffers a loss,...
Dec 12 2016 // An Oregon man has filed a $3.9 million wrongful death lawsuit against a Eugene tavern and one of its customers.Julio Ortiz Ahumada of Springfield says the Keg Tavern served alcohol to a “visibly intoxicated”...
Dec 12 2016 // Lake Geneva, WI, December 12, 2016- Insurance Journal and Demotech, Inc. announced their inaugural Super Regional P/C Insurer Conference, held July 16-18 2017 at the Grand Geneva Resort & Spa in Lake Geneva,...
Dec 11 2016 // The Beechwood group of reinsurance companies is in talks to sell most or all of itself after a backlash from some clients due to its relationship with troubled hedge fund manager Platinum Partners, according to a person...
Dec 9 2016 // A Stanford University graduate student claimed in a federal lawsuit that the school failed to adequately investigate and discipline a former student who was a “known sexual predator” while attending the college...
Dec 9 2016 // The Los Angeles city attorney’s office is suing four retailers for allegedly duping shoppers into believing they got bigger discounts than they actually did.The Los Angeles Times reported that the lawsuit alleging...
Dec 8 2016 // Florida lawmakers can expect substantial pressure to tackle the assignment of benefits (AOB) and water loss claims crisis from the state’s insurer of last resort when Florida’s legislative session begins early...
Dec 8 2016 // So far, three lawsuits have been filed following a school bus crash in Chattanooga, Tenn., that killed six children and injured several more.The Chattanooga Times Free Press each of the lawsuits have been filed in Hamilton...
Dec 7 2016 // Five companies are being sued over a magnitude 5.0 earthquake at Cushing, Oklahoma.The lawsuit filed by David and Myra Reid, Valerie Branyan and Timothy Harris names White Star Petroleum, Crown Energy Company, PetroWarrior...
Dec 7 2016 // A Minnesota woman filed a lawsuit against a health care provider after her newborn was mistakenly given to another mother at a hospital and breastfed.Tammy Van Dyke, of Apple Valley, recently filed the lawsuit in Hennepin...
Dec 7 2016 // Two sons of an Oregon woman who died when a mudslide tore through her home last winter seek nearly $10 million in a lawsuit filed against a Florence couple and a utility district. Stephen Miller and Keith Eldien allege the...