Claims / Legal
Florida Sues BP On 3-Year Anniversary Of Oil Spill
Florida's attorney general has filed a lawsuit against BP and Halliburton on the three-year anniversary of the 2010 Gulf oil spill. Pam Bondi filed the 40-page lawsuit Saturday in federal court in ...
PwC’s Latest Securities Litigation Study Confirms Downward Trends
While the first three quarters of 2012 saw an average of 46 cases, securities litigation filings decreased dramatically in the fourth quarter, to 33 cases—the lowest level since the 30 cases filed ...
Three Years Later: Oil Spill Cleanup, Study Continues
At first glance, the marshy, muddy coastline of Bay Jimmy in southeast Louisiana appears healthy three years after the nation's worst offshore oil spill. Brown pelicans and seagulls cruise the ...
Google Again Beats Viacom in YouTube Copyright Case
A federal judge has thrown out Viacom Inc.'s lawsuit accusing Google Inc. of posting its programs on YouTube without permission, a year after a federal appeals court had revived the landmark ...
Storm Rips Open Chicago Sinkhole
A rainstorm pummeling the Chicago area ripped open a sinkhole Thursday that swallowed three cars, injuring one driver badly enough that he had to be hospitalized. Blasts of torrential rain and ...
EPA Blamed For Delays In Asbestos Study In Montana
Internal investigators faulted the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday for years of delays in completing health studies needed to guide the cleanup of a Montana mining town where hundreds of ...
Superstorm Sandy Jolt Detected At U.S. Quake Stations: Scientists
Superstorm Sandy didn't just rattle the East Coast, it also jiggled the ground across the country ever so slightly, scientists reported Thursday. Earthquake sensors located as far away as the Pacific ...
J.D. Power: Auto Insurance Claims Satisfaction Down; Out-of-Pocket Expense Up
Overall auto insurance customer satisfaction has declined by 11 points to 850 on a 1,000-point scale, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2013 Auto Claims Satisfaction Study—Wave 2 released ...