Legal News

AIG St. Regis Event WAS NOT Executive Retreat Portrayed in Media
The October 7th hearing before the congressional House Oversight Committee brought attention to a conference which took place at the St. Regis Hotel from September 24-28 2008. Here's how CNN reported it "Crippled Insurance Giant spent $440,000 on posh retreat...

How one Family Battles an Insurers & its Counsel
A family whose child wass molested by a hotel employee sues and finds itself a target of federal probes. It might have been bearable if the horror had stopped when Paul Gayter and his wife Flora Nicholas learned that their 9-year-old daughter had been molested by a hotel employee during a family vacation...

Rape Victim Sues Marriott Hotel for Negligent Security

Not Off To A Good Start
Well so far, this trip sucks. They've got me flying out of Saginaw, which sucks enough. To make things worse, my flight to O'Hare was canceled tonight so I'm sitting in a hotel and I have to be up at like 4 am to make a 6 am flight...

Anger and outrage
Legal Times reports on a terrible example of how far insurance companies will go to screw plaintiffs (registration required). A hotel employee molested a young girl when her family vacationed in the US Virgin Islands...

July 30: Chamber ILR event canceled
[Replacement post]. This event, on discovery and employment law, has been canceled....

Amazon
Teen Sues over Lost Homework

Exploding iPod Touch
Mother of Injured Boy Sues Apple

Health Coverage Canceled
Kaiser Permanente to pay $300,000 settlement in insurance lawsuit.

Canceled Insurance
Judge orders Health Net Inc. to pay $9 million settlement after terminating a policyholder's policy after being diagnosed with breast cancer.

California Firm Recalls Ready-To-Eat Pork Products
California Firm Recalls Ready-To-Eat Pork Products

Westin Hotel
Undisclosed settlement in valet driver negligence lawsuit.