Special Hinds County (Mississippi) Circuit Judge William Coleman has ordered the city of Jackson to pay $400,000 in wrongful death claims stemming from a 2007 crash. Coleman ruled that police were partly to blame for the crash that killed Alice …
Former Kentucky men’s basketball coach Billy Gillispie is suing the school’s athletics association, seeking $6 million over his firing last spring. The lawsuit claims breach of contract and fraud. Gillispie was working under a memorandum of understanding but hadn’t signed …
Mike Manikchand points toward his neighbors in Lehigh Acres — a half-dozen empty, foreclosed-upon homes, sitting on weed-strewn yards — and he wonders: What will happen if a hurricane slams into southwest Florida this year? His simple answer: “A lot …
The Florida Department of Financial Services has developed an online Insurance Library to provide Floridians with on financial and insurance issues. The Insurance Library also has information to assist citizens as they prepare for the hurricane season, which begins June …
The governor of South Dakota has asked for federal assistance in counties affected by March snowstorms and subsequent flooding. Gov. Mike Rounds is requesting a presidential disaster declaration for 14 counties and two American Indian reservations in the northern half …
The California Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has posted a series of revised guides for injured workers on its Web site. The guides, which are produced by the DWC Information and Assistance Unit, provide “how to” information that helps injured …
A Stanton, Kentucky woman pleaded guilty to a felony count of mail fraud in United States District Court in Lexington after she, her husband and three Whitesburg area insurance agency employees gave false information to a workers’ compensation insurance carrier, …
Louisiana House members are set to debate a proposed ban on the use of hand-held cell phones by motorists. Rep. Austin Badon, a New Orleans Democrat, is sponsor of the bill that would make it illegal to talk on a …
A U.S. District Court ruled Wednesday that consumers can go ahead with a class action lawsuit against AT&T Inc that stems from the 2004 merger of Cingular Wireless and AT&T Wireless. The case arose from complaints from customers after the …
A federal appeals court upheld a judge’s ruling that dismissed an engineering firm from a lawsuit involving a Hurricane Katrina damage case. David and Marilyn Aikens, of Pass Christian, Miss., appealed U.S. District Judge L.T. Senter Jr.’s ruling to dismiss …