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Judge Denies Dismissal Of Insolvent Insurers' Receiver's Aiding, Abetting Claims
ST. LOUIS - A federal judge in Missouri on March 5 refused to dismiss aiding and abetting fraud, aiding and abetting breach of fiduciary duty and aiding and abetting breach of fiduciary duty by trustee...
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New York Bankruptcy Judge Denies Review Of Claim's Sale By Insurer's Liquidator
NEW YORK - A New York federal bankruptcy judge on Jan. 10 declined to conduct a plenary review of the sale by an insurer's liquidator of a customer claim against Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities...
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Chancery Court Places Ullico Casualty Co. Into Rehabilitation
WILMINGTON, Del. - A Delaware court on March 11 ordered Ullico Casualty Co. into rehabilitation and named the state's insurance commissioner as receiver (State of Delaware, ex rel. Karen Weldin...
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New York Trial Justice Closes Autoglass Insurance Company's Liquidation
NEW YORK - A New York trial justice on Feb. 21 closed and terminated the liquidation for Autoglass Insurance Co. (In the matter of the liquidation of Autoglass Insurance Co., No. 402610/11, N.Y. Sup.,...
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N.J. Judge Terminates Insurer's Liquidation, Grants Final Distribution Of Assets
TRENTON, N.J. - A New Jersey judge on Jan. 10 granted final distribution of the assets of the insolvent NJ Exchange (NJE) and terminated the insurer's liquidation (In the matter of the liquidation of...
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Causation Expert Excluded, Summary Judgment Granted In Ecuador Herbicide...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. contractors accused of exposing thousands of Ecuadorans to the herbicide glyphosate during coca and heroin poppy eradication spraying in Colombia were granted a no-evidence...
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Hexavalent Chromium Exposure Damages Trial Continued In California Federal Court
SANTA ANA, Calif. - The damages trial scheduled for February in the Merced County, Calif., hexavalent chromium flood damage mass tort case in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of...
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Unanimous 8th Circuit Panel Reverses Voluntary Dismissal In Aluminum Exposure...
ST. LOUIS - A unanimous Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on March 6 reversed an order from the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri allowing a machinist who alleges that...
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DuPont Seeks Southern Ohio For National Consolidation Of C8 Personal Injury...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - DuPont argues in a March 7 reply to interested party responses filed in the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio...
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Defense Counsel Ordered To Produce Documents Sought By Chevron In Lago Agrio...
NEW YORK - The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York judge presiding over the lawsuit filed by Chevron Corp. to prevent the enforcement of an $18.2 billion personal injury and...
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Ecuadorans Ask Court To Lift Protective Order, Allow Discovery Of Third Parties
NEW YORK - Two defendants in the lawsuit filed by Chevron Corp. in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to prevent the enforcement of an $18 billion judgment entered against it...
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Nicaraguans Ask 2nd Circuit For Mandamus Relief, Removal Of New York Federal...
NEW YORK - Two of the defendants named by Chevron Corp. in a U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York lawsuit to prevent enforcement of an $18 billion personal injury and property...
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Washington Supreme Court Affirms Judgment For Utility Accused Of EMF Trespassing
OLYMPIA, Wash. - The Washington Supreme Court unanimously affirmed summary judgment for an electricity utility and city in an electromagnetic field trespassing nuisance lawsuit March 7 because the...
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Butter Flavoring Makers Denied Summary Judgment In Suit Filed By Popcorn...
SIOUX CITY, Iowa - Three artificial-flavoring manufacturers accused of exposing a consumer diagnosed with bronchiolitis obliterans to diacetyl in microwave popcorn were denied summary judgment on March...
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Joint Case Statement Filed In Litigation Alleging Injuries From U.S. Weapons...
OAKLAND, Calif. - The United States and the plaintiffs representing some 100,000 veterans of Department of Defense and Central Intelligence Agency experiments that exposed the veterans to biological...
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Utility Group Asks 3rd Circuit To Admit Brief Supporting Stack Ash Suit...
PHILADELPHIA - An electric utility trade group on March 6 in the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals moved for leave to file an amicus curiae brief in support of an electric utility that was granted a...
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Strict Liability Claim Survives Defense Motion To Dismiss In Ohio Fracking...
CLEVELAND - In nearly identical orders entered March 11 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, natural gas extraction companies accused of contaminating the real property and...
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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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