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Insurance Agent Pleads Guilty To Mail Fraud, Overbilling Allegations
LOS ANGELES - An insurance agent on April 19 pleaded guilty in a California federal court to mail fraud charges arising from allegations that he bilked clients including actor Tom Hanks and his wife,...
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ACLU Class Complaint: Westboro Baptist Demonstrators May Desecrate Flag
DES MOINES, Iowa - The American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa filed a class complaint on April 18 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa on behalf of members of the Westboro...
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Louisiana Court Finds Mold Claims Are Excluded Under Policy
BATON ROUGE, La. - A Louisiana appeals court on April 22 affirmed a trial court's ruling that granted summary judgment in favor of an insurer, finding that a homeowner's mold-related claims were...
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Judge Refuses To Dismiss Breach Of Contract Claim In Discrimination Coverage...
CAMDEN, N.J. - A New Jersey federal judge on April 22 denied an insurer's motion to dismiss a breach of contract claim in an insured's lawsuit seeking coverage for an underlying gender discrimination...
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Magistrate: Insurer Cannot Use Attorney-Client Privilege Against Its Own Insured
INDIANAPOLIS - Even though an insurer and its insured are now adverse parties in an insurance bad faith dispute, an Indiana federal judge on April 22 held that the insurer could not invoke the...
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Dewey & LeBoeuf Trustee Seeks Approval Of Deal With CEO Valued At More Than...
NEW YORK - The Dewey & LeBoeuf Liquidating Trust on April 22 moved in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York for approval of a settlement valued at more than $19.5 million...
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Missouri Appeals Panel: Trial Court Erred By Excluding Plaintiff's Evidence
ST. LOUIS - In a 2-1 decision, the Missouri Court of Appeals on April 23 ruled that a trial court erred in excluding evidence regarding a slip-and-fall injury in the workplace, remanding the case for...
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Judge Says He Cannot Hear Case That Has Been Transferred To Another Court
COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal judge in Ohio on April 22 said the court lacks jurisdiction to consider a motion to reconsider an earlier ruling regarding a reinsurance dispute because the case had been...
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6th Circuit: Inflated Appraisal Was Proximate Cause Of Injury
CINCINNATI - A Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on April 23 reversed an award of summary judgment to a mortgage lender, a mortgage brokerage firm and its principals after finding that an...
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Federal Judge Grants Protective Stay To FDIC In Failed-Bank Action
CHICAGO - A federal judge in Illinois on April 23 granted a protective order regarding confidential information to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which, as the receiver for the failed Wheatland...
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Asbestos Claims Force Former Manufacturer Into Bankruptcy
WILMINGTON, Del. - Yarway Corp., a former Pennsylvania company that manufactured pipe clamps, steam traps, valves and controls, filed for Chapter 11 protection April 22 in Delaware federal bankruptcy...
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$5.75 Million Settlement Approved In Suit Over Sexual Abuse At Hawaii School
HONOLULU - A Hawaii federal magistrate judge on April 22 approved a $5.75 million settlement to end a class complaint filed by students and parents of students who attended a Hawaii school for blind...
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Purchasers In Antitrust Case Oppose Decertification Based On Comcast
KANSAS CITY, Kan. - Direct purchasers of polyether polyol products (PPPs) who won a $400,049,039 jury verdict against manufacturer Dow Chemical Co., the sole remaining defendant in multidistrict...
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11th Circuit: Trustee May Not Recover $536,686.91 Debtor Transferred To IRS
ATLANTA - A panel of the 11th Circuit on April 23 ruled that the Internal Revenue Service was entitled to the good faith defense regarding the prepetition transfer of $536,686.91 it received from a...
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Judge Dismisses Wells Fargo From Suit Over Refinanced Mortgage
NEW YORK - A federal judge in New York on April 22 dismissed Wells Fargo Bank N.A. from a lawsuit accusing the lender of violating the Truth in Lending Act (TILA) when originating the refinancing of a...
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Preliminary Certification Granted In Suit Challenging Defense Of Marriage Act
SANTA ANA, Calif. - A California federal judge on April 19 provisionally certified a class complaint challenging the constitutionality of Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and alleging...
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Federal Circuit Denies Mandamus Petition In Patent Dispute
WASHINGTON, D.C. - An effort by Broadcom Corp., Qualcomm Inc. and Qualcomm Atheros Inc. (Broadcom, collectively) to obtain dismissal or transfer of a patent infringement case was thwarted April 23 by...
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Texas Appeals Court Dismisses Conspiracy Claims Over 'Fracking' Contamination
FORT WORTH, Texas - A Texas appeals court has dismissed on a writ of mandamus counterclaims by a natural gas company that property owners and their environmental consultant conspired to defame the...
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North Carolina Federal Judge Issues Injunction In Patent Dispute
GREENSBORO, N.C. - After upholding the validity of a patent on the eyelash-growth drug Latisse, a North Carolina federal judge on April 23 enjoined four defendants from marketing and selling a generic...
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Judge: Issues Remain On Whether Insurance Broker Was Insurer's Agent
NEW YORK - Genuine issues of material fact exist as to whether a wholesale insurance broker served as an insurer's apparent agent for receiving notices of claim, a New York federal judge found April...
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