A Garland County (Ark.) jury has awarded a Mississippi woman $3 million in a lawsuit over injuries she suffered in a near-drowning at a Hot Springs hotel in 2006. Hot Springs lawyer D. Scott Hickam said the jury award for …
Employers aren’t obligated to cover the moving costs and other expenses incurred by many immigrant workers, a federal appeals court has ruled in a case against a New Orleans hotelier that hired dozens of foreign workers after Hurricane Katrina. The …
With hundreds of thousands of Americans out of work and the economy in a nosedive, the U.S. peanut industry expected sales to soar this year. Americans tend to turn to peanut products to stretch their food dollars in tough times, …
Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced that Travis County district courts have sentenced three claimants, in separate cases, on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. All three were involved in double-dipping scams. Double-dipping occurs when claimants collect workers’ comp benefits for being too …
Idaho Department of Insurance Director Bill Deal announced that more than $2 million dollars in insurance claims were recovered for Idaho consumers in 2008. “Our Consumer Affairs Bureau has done an outstanding job of assisting Idahoans with problems on insurance-related …
A former payroll clerk in a Derry, N.H., company has been accused of stealing the identities of co-workers to open credit card accounts. Fifty-year-old Louise Hamilton was arrested this week. Police say detectives began looking into Hamilton after a former …
For the second time in two weeks, a small earthquake has rattled an area of central New Jersey. But like the last quake in Morris County, no significant damage or injuries were reported. The latest earthquake, with a magnitude of …
Police say a Long Island man whose car was outfitted with an anti-drunken-driving device rented another car and crashed it while intoxicated. Police say 27-year-old Marvin Rice, Junior, of Shirley, lost control of a rental car in Brentwood Sunday morning …
A Florida jury ruled last Thursday that a smoker’s death was caused by his addiction to cigarettes, a legal setback for cigarette giant Philip Morris in the first of potentially thousands of cases to go to trial. The jury in …
A former cigarette pitchman’s lawsuit against tobacco companies is among thousands awaiting trial in Florida. Alan Landers posed with Winston cigarettes on billboards and in magazines in the 1960s and 1970s. Now 68 and living in South Florida, Landers is …