The Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled that Mary Reed Evans is entitled to present evidence in an effort to disprove prosecutors' contention that her blood alcohol level was over the legal limit …
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Mississippi High Court Orders New Trial on Drunk Driving Charge
In a case involving two workers’ compensation funds, the Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that lawmakers and the governor cannot replenish the state’s general fund using monies from …
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Kentucky Supreme Court Curbs State Use of Private Agency Funds
The Hanover won't have to pay $26,000 in claims on behalf of a Connecticut contractor who accidentally knocked over the house he was working on, a Connecticut Superior Court has ruled. The …
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Business Risk Exclusion Means No Coverage for Toppled Conn. House
The Vermont Supreme Court says a landowner can sue the president of the Vermont Asbestos Group over contamination
The Florida Supreme Court says hospitals must warn patients about a state law that bars malpractice lawsuits for birth-related neurological injuries. The justices last week ruled hospitals that …
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Florida Hospitals Must Tell Patients of Lawsuit Limits
A sharply divided Montana Supreme Court has upheld a state law that requires someone planning to sue a bar over liability in a drunken driving crash to notify the bar within 180 days of the …
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Montana Court Upholds Notice Rule in Lawsuits Against Bars
The Trustee for the WCI Chinese Drywall Trust has filed suit against
A federal appeals court has upheld the convictions of former New Mexico insurance regulator Joe Ruiz on corruption charges. The 10th U.S.
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Former New Mexico Insurance Regulator’s Convictions Upheld
A group of white New Haven firefighters who won a discrimination case before the U.S.
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White Connecticut Firefighters Seek Back Pay, Damages
A church custodian who was injured in a ladder fall, but waited nearly five years to file a workers’ comp claim is barred from collecting benefits, a Massachusetts Appeals Court has …
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Massachusetts Court: No Workers’ Comp for Custodian’s 1999 Injury
A retired Union Pacific conductor can seek compensation for a knee injury because walking into work from the parking lot was part of the conductor's job, the Nebraska Supreme Court said in a …
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Nebraska High Court Says Worker Can Sue for Parking Lot Injury
After more than a decade and four Nebraska Supreme Court rulings, a new trial may soon be scheduled in a multimillion-dollar insurance dispute between Florida and Countrywide Insurance …
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1988 Case in Nebraska Involving Florida Insurance Agency Not Over Yet
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a workers’ compensation case from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit in which the appeals court found that the plaintiffs could sue …
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Supreme Court Refuses Michigan Workers’ Comp Racketeering Suit
A civil lawsuit filed over the damage caused by the 2004 collapse of the Big Bay Lake dam in Lamar County has been moved to Harrison County and set for a March 22 trial. Circuit Court Judge …
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March Trial Set for Lawsuit Over Mississippi Dam Break
The Alaska Supreme Court ruled a former prison guard at the Anchorage Jail deserves workers' compensation for the psychological problems he suffered after being threatened by a convicted killer 15 …
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Alaska Prison Guard Wins Workers’ Comp Case
The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled the state's insurance regulator can implement a medical fee schedule for treatments covered by Personal Injury Protection (PIP). The decision upholds an …
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New Jersey Supreme Court Upholds Fee Schedule for PIP Claims
The Texas Supreme Court says it will again hear arguments in the nearly 15-year legal battle over accusations that Exxon Mobil Corp. loaded abandoned wells with junk, sludge and even explosives to …
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Texas Supreme Court Agrees to Rehear Exxon Abandoned Wells Case
The Connecticut Supreme Court has reinstated a lawsuit filed by the owners of a dump truck that caused a fatal 20-vehicle wreck in Avon, in a dispute over whether there was insurance coverage on …
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Court: Owners of Truck in Fatal Connecticut Crash Can Sue Insurer
U.S. Supreme Court Justices seemed reluctant to allow hedging methods to be patented as it heard arguments Monday that were closely watched by software, biotech firms and other industries. Some …
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Supreme Court Justices Appear Skeptical of Patents for Business Methods
Software, biotech firms and others who develop new ways to do business will be watching closely Monday as the U.S.
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Supreme Court to Hear Key Case on Patents For Business Methods
The Montana Supreme Court has upheld a state law that allows insurance companies to cut off worker's compensation payments for those suffering permanent total disability when the disabled party is …
The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled that injured motorists are not entitled to maximize their insurance coverage by combining auto insurance policies on several vehicles to cover one accident, a …
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Georgia Supreme Court Blocks ‘Stacking’ of Auto Insurance Policies
A black New Haven, Connecticut firefighter has filed a federal lawsuit against the city over a promotion exam that was the subject of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June.
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Connecticut Firefigher Sues over Promotion Test
The Alabama Supreme Court last Friday threw out jury decisions awarding the state more than $274 million from three pharmaceutical companies, ruling they did not defraud the state in pricing …
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Alabama Supreme Court Throws Out $274M in Verdicts Against Drug Makers
Leon County Circuit Court Judge John C. Cooper has granted a request by state insurance officials to place American Keystone Insurance Co. in Ponte Vedra Beach into state receivership to be …
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Florida’s American Keystone Insurance to Be Liquidated
Attorneys on both sides of the issue argued before the Michigan Supreme Court on Oct.
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Arguments For and Against Credit Scores Begin in Michigan Court
In a 9-0 decision, the Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled that so-called “all-risk” home insurance policies may cover wind damage from hurricanes, even in situations where the loss is later …
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Mississippi Court Rules Home Insurance Policy Covers Hurricane Wind Damage
The Michigan Supreme Court on Oct. 7 heard the opening arguments in a closely watched case that may decide the fate of insurers' use of credit history in setting premium rates for personal lines …
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Insurer Interest High in Michigan Credit Score Case
The Illinois Supreme Court has sided with health care providers who treated a mentally ill man who subsequently murdered his wife.
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Court: Negligence Not Transferred to Illinois Woman Murdered by Husband
A Delaware Superior Court has ruled that John Henry Smith Insurance Co.
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Delaware Court Changes Underinsured Limits in Case of Hurt Motorcyclist
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