Consumer Law

In the News

By Andy Hoffman

The mother of a deceased infant whose body was lost by a northern New Jersey hospital (and never found even after a search of dumps in 3 states ? can you imagine?) has filed suit against the hospital and others ? New Jersey state regulators have fined the hospital.

Beazer Homes USA Inc., four of its top executives and its auditor, Deloitte & Touche, agreed to settle a class-action suit brought by the Carpenters Pension Trust Fund for Northern California and others, over illegal mortgages (which the company continues to deny).

Ed McMahon and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center finally settled his medical malpractice suit we told you about several months ago.  Poor guy.

New York AG Andrew Cuomo is asking Chevron execs if they?ve been honest with shareholders (like the New York State and New York City Pension funds) about the company's potential liability for decades of pollution in Ecuador.

A confidential settlement has been reached between a Knoxville, TN Days Inn and the parents of a young woman who was raped and murdered by a motel employee who had a master key. 

Wal-Mart will pay an unspecified sum to victims hurt in the ?Black Friday? stampede that left one temporary worker dead and several others hurt in Nassau County, NY.

The Missouri Supreme Court has granted a new trial to a man who was injured, and the widow of a state trooper who was killed, when the trooper?s patrol car exploded in a crash due to, they say, a defective fuel tank.

Full post as published by ThePopTort on May 06, 2009 (boomark / email).