Posted on 09 August 2013.
Class action over Allco's $1.9bn understatement The Australian A MULTI-MILLION-DOLLAR shareholder class action against one of Australia's big failures of the global financial crisis, Allco Finance Group, has been lodged in … See all stories on this topic » Class action lawsuit over sexual disfunction linked to hair restoration … News Talk 980 CJME […]
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Posted on 09 August 2013.
Class Action Lawsuit Against 1st Centennial Bancorp May Require … The Herald | HeraldOnline.com 6, 2013 — /PRNewswire/ — On April 20, 2011, shareholder rights attorneys at Robbins Arroyo LLP announce that an investor commenced a class action lawsuit … See all stories on this topic » MEDTRONIC CLASS ACTION ALERT: Levi & Korsinsky […]
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Posted on 09 August 2013.
The Insurance Journal (8/7, 18K) reports that a study in the August Health Affairs “found no consistent relationships” between “physicians’ level of malpractice concern with objective state-level indicators of malpractice liability risk.” Instead, “physicians’ perception of their risk…predicts their practice of defensive medicine,” suggesting “that traditional malpractice reforms, such as caps on damages, don’t […]
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Posted on 06 August 2013.
Class-action lawsuit filed against Barrick Gold Toronto Star Barrick Gold is facing yet another class-action lawsuit from a group of investors as the Canadian mining giant struggles to adjust to faltering metal prices. See all stories on this topic » Toronto Star N.J. drivers seek reimbursement for alleged red light camera problems UPI.com Eighteen […]
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Posted on 06 August 2013.
To the Editor: Re “Lawyers’ Business Model,” by Joe Nocera (column, July 30) When corporations act irresponsibly by producing unsafe products, polluting our environment or swindling their employees and shareholders, often the only place for Americans to hold them accountable is in our courts. The civil justice system provides a key incentive […]
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Posted on 02 August 2013.
The New York Law Journal (7/29, Pierson, 11K) reports that a three-judge panel of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has “affirmed a $105 million judgment for New York City against Exxon Mobil Corp. over the petroleum giant’s contamination of groundwater with the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether, or MTBE, used until the […]
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