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No-Fault insurance lawyershares additional tips on what Michigans new auto accident law means for car accident victims and personal injury attorneys This is part two on topics and ideas that I’ll be covering today and tomorrow at the No-Fault Institute Seminar for the Michigan Association for Justice in Southfield. Yesterday, I discussed the objective manifestation [...]

Business litigation is a law specialty which basically aims to defend companies charged of some kind of delinquency. By legal proceedings a claim towards compensation could be attained through business litigation. Here an accused is a litigant and the accuser is a complainant. View full post on Injury Law News RSS feed

Litigation lawyers take up civil lawsuits that are brought before courts involving two parties in which one is a complainant and the other is a defendant. The process of filing a lawsuit in a court of law is called litigation. The person who files the lawsuit is called complainant or plaintiff as heshe seeks legal [...]

A lawsuit brought by Elderhostel Inc. against Zurich American Insurance Co. alleging breach of an insurance policy is an example of increasingly common coverage disputes between companies that wage pricey trademark battles and their insurance carriers. Elderhostel initially sued Zurich in Suffolk Superior Court in Massachusetts on May 6 over the insurance company’s refusal to [...]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Bank of America Corp. has agreed to provide credit monitoring, reimbursement of identity theft losses and out-of-pocket expenses and incentive awards in a settlement approved by a Kentucky federal judge on Aug. 23, bringing to an end a class action filed against Countrywide Financial Corp. mortgage unit over data theft (In Re: [...]

The $20 billion compensation fund for victims of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill has begun taking applications, but plaintiffs lawyers doubt it will significantly forestall litigation. It could even lead to a new wave of lawsuits. Many of their clients, especially large businesses, are unlikely to seek final settlements anytime soon, they said. The claims [...]

Seattle food illness plaintiffs law firm Marler Clark filed what it believes is the first lawsuit linked to the nationwide recall of 380 million eggs. Managing partner Bill Marler said the firm has been investigating salmonella outbreaks linked to restaurants in various states, but the cause of the illnesses wasn’t clear until last week’s recall. [...]

U.S. District Judge Jose Linares in New Jersey has allowed an arbitration to proceed between Lakin Chapman of Wood River, Ill., and Freed & Weiss of Chicago over a portion of $5.775 million in legal fees approved as part of a class action settlement. The suit challenged the imposition of flat-rate, early-termination fees on cell-phone [...]

Some litigation support services offer computer forensics as a service to law firms. This field is growing as businesses and consumers alike conduct business and personal transactions on computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices. In law cases, digital evidence is often stored on electronic devices. View full post on Injury Law News RSS feed

NEW ORLEANS – One of the defendants that prevailed in the March Federal Emergency Management Agency trailer formaldehyde products liability litigation trial in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana filed a motion July 9 to assess taxable costs to the plaintiff who lost the trial (In Re: FEMA Trailer Formaldehyde Products [...]