A former New York Giant who sued a prominent Manhattan surgeon for allegedly ending his football career won a whopping $28.5 million verdict in the case. Running back Michael Cox, 33, had a four-year, $2.3 million contract with Big Blue when he was tackled during a November 2014 game in Seattle.
A massive, deadly hurricane like Ian could topple the state’s already unstable property insurance market, some lawmakers and industry experts said Tuesday, as the storm took aim at Florida.
The Vermont Supreme Court revived a military shipbuilder’s lawsuit for insurance coverage of lost income and extra expenses incurred in dealing with the virus that causes COVID-19, becoming the first state high court to rule for the policyholder in such cases.
Litigation funders risk public disclosure about their role financing lawsuits from a body that sets federal court rules and lawmakers who commissioned a study of their activities.
Seventy-nine funerals in five weeks. Not at a cemetery but inside Judge Michael Hanzman’s courtroom, during unprecedented hearings held throughout an excruciating summer of sadness as he appraised the worth of the victims killed in the Surfside condominium collapse.
Nuclear verdicts have been increasing in frequency and severity over the past decade, especially in the last few years. ‘Plaintiff’s attorneys have changed the way they try cases,’ explained Robert F. Tyson, Jr., managing partner of Tyson & Mendes.
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, applying Oklahoma law, granted an insured’s motion for summary judgment, finding that a claim was sufficiently made and reported during the policy period.
New York Attorney General Letitia James sued former President Donald Trump, the Trump Organization and others, including the ex-president’s eldest children, for financial fraud on Wednesday, in a lawsuit that includes allegations that the organization made misrepresentations in its purchase of surety bonds and directors and officers liability insurance.
The 2nd Appellate District in Montes v. Young Men’s Christian Assn. of Glendale, California (2022 Cal.App.LEXIS 677) recently reaffirmed the application of the ‘open and obvious’ defense to premises liability claims, especially as they related to trial following an unsuccessful motion for summary judgment raising the defense.
Gig economy companies like Uber Technologies Inc., Lyft Inc., and Grubhub Inc., have paid hundreds of millions to defend and settle claims over the past decade that they wrongly classified workers as independent contractors, but legal and practical hurdles for plaintiffs and state enforcers mean these companies have not had to reclassify their workforces.
A half-dozen Oregon homeowners and businesses have filed federal lawsuits this month alleging underpayments in the aftermath of the destructive Labor Day 2020 wildfires, including the Almeda Fire.
The National Football League was sued for allegedly sharing digital subscribers’ personal data with Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook, becoming the latest target of consumers claiming companies pass on private information to the social media site without their consent.
Insurance companies don’t have to reimburse Washington state for the two years drivers couldn’t use the new Highway 99 tunnel, as a result of the boring machine Bertha’s breakdown during construction, the Washington State Supreme Court has ruled.
Nearly three years have passed since the COVID-19 pandemic shocked global economies. From supply chain interruptions and shortages to an overwhelming shift to remote work, the pandemic’s effects on individuals and businesses alike have been nothing short of substantial.
Nearly three years after the partially built Hard Rock Hotel collapsed and killed three construction workers, a mediator is trying to settle dozens of claims filed in Orleans Parish Civil District Court against the developers and construction contractors, ranging from business losses to worker injuries to death claims.
