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New Jersey Appeals Panel Upholds Damages Awarded For Defective Home Renovation
TRENTON, N.J. - The New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division on Feb. 22 affirmed a $95,764.85 award to homeowners who sued a contractor for construction defects in their home, concluding that the...
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Kansas Federal Judge Denies Motion To Dismiss Defective Plumbing Action
KANSAS CITY, Kan. - A federal judge in Kansas on Feb. 27 declined to dismiss a class action involving allegedly faulty plumbing fittings installed in thousands of homes, despite a ruling in a similar...
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Federal Judge Drops Case Involving Homes Allegedly Built With Defective Plumbing
PHOENIX - A federal judge in Arizona on Feb. 8 dismissed a class action alleging that a development of new homes was constructed using faulty plumbing components after the named plaintiff sold his home...
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Minnesota Appeals Panel: Trial Court Must Recalculate Award For Water Damage
ST. PAUL, Minn. - The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Feb. 11 remanded a construction defects action that ended in a verdict for the plaintiff to the trial court with instructions to recalculate the...
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California Homeowners Association Reaches $3.5M Building-Defect Settlement
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - After nearly 14 months of mediation, the parties in a construction defects action over water infiltration and damage to a mixed-use building in California came to a $3.5 million...
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Louisiana Appeals Panel: Construction Firm To Face Property Damage Claims
GRETNA, La. - The Fifth Circuit Louisiana Court of Appeal on Jan. 30 overturned summary judgment for a construction company named as a defendant in a property damage action brought by a group of...
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California Judge Finds Experts Lacking, Vacates $7.14M Competition Law Verdict
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A California judge on Jan. 28 vacated a $7.14 million verdict after concluding that supporting expert opinions were "irrelevant and speculative," sources told Mealey Publications...
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Michigan Court Remands Portions Of Decision In Declaratory Judgment Case
LANSING, Mich. - A Michigan appeals court on Feb. 14 reversed portions of a trial court's ruling in a declaratory judgment action filed by an insurer in relation to mold-related coverage claims,...
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Delaware Federal Judge Grants Debtor Access To Asbestos Claimant Information
WILMINGTON, Del. - A Delaware federal judge on March 1 ruled that Chapter 11 debtor Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC can obtain documents filed by asbestos claimants' attorneys in nine other...
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No Coverage For Sandusky's Offenses Against Children, Federal Judge Rules
HARRISBURG, Pa. - An insurer has no duty to defend convicted child molester Gerald A. Sandusky under the policy it issued to The Second Mile charity because the conduct alleged in underlying civil and...
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Pfizer: 95 Percent Of Hormone Therapy Claims, 80 Percent Of Chantix Claims...
NEW YORK - Pfizer Inc. said Feb. 28 that it has settled or agreed to settle about 95 percent of its hormone replacement therapy (HRT) product liability cases and about 80 percent of its Chantix injury...
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Kodak Seeks Approval Of $600M Financing Deal Linked To Asset Sale
NEW YORK - Bankrupt Eastman Kodak Co. on March 1 moved in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York for authorization to secure $600 million in additional post-petition financing...
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Federal Circuit Reverses In Dispute Over Online Zoom Patent
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A California federal judge erred in finding that a defendant had not infringed an asserted claim in a since-expired patent covering an online zoom feature, the Federal Circuit U.S....
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Zimmer Subsidiary Agrees To Produce Swiss Documents In Durom Hip MDL
NEWARK, N.J. - Zimmer GmbH, the Swiss subsidiary of Zimmer Holdings Inc., will not seek to remove cases in which it is named as a defendant to Switzerland and will voluntarily produce documents located...
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Judge Finds 'Domainer' Guilty Of Cybersquatting With 'Trump' Domains
BROOKLYN, N.Y. - A New York federal judge granted summary judgment to Donald Trump on Feb. 28 related to the real estate and reality television mogul's counterclaims against a purported cybersquatter,...
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Panel Partially Vacates District Court Ruling In Securities Suit
NEW YORK - A Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on March 1 partially vacated and remanded a ruling that a lead plaintiff in a securities class action lawsuit failed to plead facts that would...
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6th Circuit: Health Insurer Properly Denied Benefits In Eating Disorder Suit
CINCINNATI - A panel of the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on March 4 affirmed that a health insurance company did not err in denying coverage for the treatment of eating disorders (Mark Brigolin,...
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9th Circuit Reverses, Vacates Certification In Newspaper Workers' Wage Suit
SAN FRANCISCO - The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on March 4 vacated findings of commonality and predominance in a wage-and-hour class suit brought by newspaper employees and remanded for...
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Federal Judge Allows FTC Suit Against Check Processor To Continue
LAS VEGAS - A federal judge in Nevada on March 1 denied consumer check processor Elite Debit Inc.'s motion for summary judgment, disagreeing with Elite Debit's argument that the Federal Trade...
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Federal Judge Dismisses Antitrust Claim For Failure ToAllege Market Power
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Home purchasers who sued a subdivision's developer, builder and seller, alleging that the defendants manipulated the market value of the homes in the subdivision in violation of...
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