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Natural Gas Pipeline Company Denied Motion To Dismiss In Arkansas Federal Court
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The owner and operator of central Arkansas natural gas pipelines and compressor stations sued in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas for failing to properly...
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Plaintiffs Aver Defendant Misrepresents Record In Appeal Of Gas Well Waste...
RICHMOND, Va. - A Wetzel County, W.Va., couple who allege that the permanent disposal of drilling waste on their land by the lessee of the mineral estate constitutes trespass argue in a reply brief...
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Natural Gas Company Presses Argument To Dismiss Suit For Breach Of Lease...
SCRANTON, Pa. - A natural gas extraction company sued by a Bradford County, Pa., couple seeking a declaratory judgment and damages for alleged violations of mineral leases filed a reply brief on March...
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Environmental Watchdog Seeks Case Management Statement From Natural Gas Company
SCRANTON, Pa. - An environmental watchdog requested in a letter filed March 13 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania the entry of an order instructing the parties to file a...
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Natural Gas Defendants Ask Pennsylvania Federal Court To Dismiss Lease...
SCRANTON, Pa. - Two of the defendants named in a declaration of rights lawsuit filed in December in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania by a Rome, Pa., couple who allege the...
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Arkansas Plaintiffs Allege Frack Fluid Disposal Caused Property-Damaging...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Two Faulkner County, Ark., couples sued natural gas extraction companies on March 11 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas for damage to the residences the...
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New Jersey Class Plaintiffs Dispute Counsel Selection In Paulsboro Derailment...
CAMDEN, N.J. - The so-called Paulsboro, N.J., federal court class plaintiffs oppose the attempt by so-called remand plaintiffs to have their attorneys appointed class counsel, in a response filed March...
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Plaintiffs Alleging Injuries From Camp Lejeune Water Respond To Government...
ATLANTA - In briefs filed Feb. 11 and Feb. 28, the plaintiffs in the Marine Corps Camp Lejeune, N.C., water contamination litigation consolidated in the Northern District of Georgia oppose the appeal...
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Michigan Imprelis Damage Suit For Landscape Tree Deaths Removed to Federal Court
DETROIT - DuPont filed notice of removal March 13 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan in an Imprelis herbicide tree damage lawsuit on the grounds of diversity of citizenship...
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Louisiana Plaintiffs Allege Damages From Mill Waste In Putative Class Action
MONROE, La. - A first amended complaint filed Feb. 28 in a putative class action seeking damages for personal injuries and property damage allegedly cause by fugitive paper mill waste was transferred...
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Researchers Link Hypertension To Prenatal DDT Exposure
RESEARCH TRIANLGE PARK, N.C. - The National Institute of Environmental Health Science published a study online March 12 linking prenatal DDT exposure to diagnosed hypertension in adult women....(read...
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Researchers Confirm Vegetables Accumulate Arsenic From Soil
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - The National Institute of Environmental Health Science announced March 6 that researchers in the Superfund Research Program have advised gardeners to test whether their...
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Researchers Report BPA Link To Asthma In Exposed Children
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - Researchers report in the March edition of The Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology that postnatal urinary bisphenol A (BPA) concentrations are positively...
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Judge: Jurisdiction Exists Over Insolvent Insurer's Breach Of Fiduciary Duty...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - There is "related to" jurisdiction over an insolvent insurer's breach of fiduciary duty claim against its former directors, a Florida federal bankruptcy judge held Feb. 28,...
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Judge Grants Motion For Insurers' Receiver, Parties To Set Date For Jury Trial
ST. LOUIS - A federal judge in Missouri on Feb. 25 granted a motion filed by the special deputy receiver (SDR) of insolvent insurers for setting a jury trial in a breach of fiduciary and negligence...
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Appeals Panel Stays Insolvent Insurer's Coverage Action Against Insurer, Insured
SAN FRANCISCO - A California appeals panel on March 8 granted an insolvent insurer's petition to stay pursuant to a rehabilitation order its insurance coverage action against an insurer and an insured...
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Panel Finds Error In Dismissal Of Insured's Asbestos Claims Against Insolvent...
NEW YORK - A trial justice erred in granting an insolvent insurer's liquidator's motion to disallow an insured's coverage claims for asbestos personal injury lawsuits and to release $6 million that was...
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Judge Declines To Strike Insurer's Receiver's Jury Demand On Negligence Claim
ST. LOUIS - A federal judge in Missouri refused Feb. 22 to strike a jury demand filed by the special deputy receiver (SDR) of insolvent insurers regarding breach of fiduciary duty and negligence claims...
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Panel Affirms Judgment On Worker's Benefits Against Insolvent Insurer's...
SHREVEPORT, La. - A Louisiana appeals panel on Feb. 27 upheld summary judgment against an employer and its insolvent insurer's successor, Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association (LIGA), in favor of an...
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Employer Can Recover From Lien Paid By Benefits From Insolvent Insurer, Panel...
CHICAGO - An employer can recover out of a third-party settlement the entire amount of workers' compensation benefits paid to an employee, including the $145,018.71 paid to the employee by the...
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