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Settlement: $19.5M Settlement Reached in Wells Fargo and QBE Force-Placed Insurance Class Action Lawsuit

May 17 2013 Miami, FL: A $19.5 million settlement has been reached in a force-placed insurance class action pending against Wells Fargo Bank and QBE Insurance. Read more »

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Law Suit Filed: Bankers Life and Casualty Face Class Action Lawsuit

April 15 2013 Portland Or: A bad faith insurance class action lawsuit has been filed against the Chicago-based insurance company Bankers Life and Casualty, alleging they are denying benefits to those who paid for long term health care insurance so Read more »

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Law Suit Filed: Class Action Filed over Superstorm Sandy Denied Insurance Claims

December 18 2012 Newark, NJ: A bad faith insurance insurance class action lawsuit has been filed against nine insurance companies over the definition of a basement related to insurance claims filed for damages caused by Hurricane Irene in 2011 and Read more »

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Law Suit Filed: GMAC Mortgage Faces Class Action over Alleged Forced Placed Insurance Kick Backs

Home Page > > Lawsuits Filed > > Lawsuit: GMAC Mortgage Faces Class Action over Alleged Forced Placed Insurance Kick Backs New York, NY: A class action lawsuit has been filed in the United States District Court for the Southern Read more »

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Possible Case: Force-Placed Insurance and Bank Lawsuit

Banks, lenders and loan service providers face force-placed insurance lawsuits alleging their force-placed insurance pushes already financially-burdened home owners into greater financial crisis, putting them at risk of foreclosure. Furthermore, allegations have been made that force-placed home insurance is much Read more »

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Law Suit Filed: United Healthcare Faces Class Action over Restricted Mental Health Coverage

May 29 2012 Los Angeles, CA: A class action lawsuit has been filed against United Healthcare Insurance Company, US Behavioral Plan, and California United Behavioral Health, which contracts with employers such as the University of California to provide mental health Read more »

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Law Suit Filed: Fidelity National Title Insurance Faces Class Action over Kickbacks

Home Page > > Lawsuits Filed > > Lawsuit: Fidelity National Title Insurance Faces Class Action over Kickbacks Los Angeles, CA: Angry homeowners have filed a federal consumer fraud class action lawsuit against Fidelity National Title Insurance and other major Read more »

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Settlement: $40 Million Settlement reached in Insurance Fraud Lawsuit

August 27 2012 St. Louis, MO: A settlement has been reached between Pettett Funeral Home individually and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc., et al Read more »

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Kirkland Cleans Up on PE Shop’s $1.4 Billion Buy

By&nbspBrian BaxterContactAll Articles The Am Law DailyMay 15, 2013 Kirkland & Ellis clinched its latest large M&A deal on Wednesday as private equity client Pamplona Capital Management acquired the largest laundry equipment service provider in the U.S., as well as Read more »

Ropes Settles Age Discrimination Suit With Ex-Partner

Ropes & Gray has settled a two-year-old discrimination lawsuit brought by former partner Patricia Martone, who claimed Ropes management routinely passed her clients off to younger male partners and unfairly pushed her out of the firm.In a one-page stipulation filed Read more »

DISH Selling Debt Ahead of Possible Sprint Deal

A month after shaking up the telecommunications industry by making a $25.5 billion bid to acquire Sprint Nextel, DISH Network has announced a $2.5 billion debt offering meant to help finance part of the proposed deal. Read more »

Ugliness Inside the Am Law 100—Part II

In Part I of this series, I explored the possibility that a key metric—average partner profits—has lost much of its value as a measurement of anything meaningful about big law firms. Read more »

The Score: Dentons Partner Doubles as Fantasy Sports Pro

Like many lawyers, Glenn Colton is a baseball fan. But the Dentons white-collar and government investigations practice chair has taken his love for America’s national pastime to the next level, scoring his own fantasy baseball column for NBC Sports’s Rotoworld Read more »

Law Suit Filed: Viacom Video Music Awards Spam Text Messages

May 16 2013 Los Angeles, CA: Viacom, parent company of MTV is facing a class action lawsuit alleging it sent out unsolicited, promotional text messages to people who voted in the 2011 Video Music Awards (VMAs), in violation of the Read more »

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