In July 1991, Prudential appointed Alpha/Omega as a "special agent," authorized to write and sell Prudential's property and casualty insurance.(1) On December 7, 1995, Prudential gave Alpha/Omega notice that it was terminating this agency relationship on December 31, 1995. Alpha/Omega immediately protested Prudential's failure to provide it six months' written notice of termination and continued r... More...   $0 (11-06-2001 - TX)

This action involves claims for breach of contract and tortious interference with a contractual relationship arising out of a construction project for the City of Detroit. Defendants-Appellants Acme Demolition/Intervale Joint Venture and Intervale Excavating & Demolition, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as “defendants”) appeal as of right from the trial court’s entry of a defau... More...   $0 (11-02-2001 - MI)

On September 10, 1992, Thomas Davis was fatally injured, while operating a forklift, when the driver of the produce truck he was unloading pulled away from the loading dock prematurely. As a result of this incident, appellee Bernadine Davis, the wife of Thomas Davis, brought an action against appellant Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (“Wal-Mart”) and a co-worker. Davis settled the claim with t... More...   $0 (10-31-2001 - OH)

Millard had worked as the office manager at plaintiff law firm and was discovered to have embezzled a substantial amount of ... More...   $42675 (10-26-2001 - MI)

Appellant, William R. Vowell, individually and as president and officer of Finally Communities, Inc., Finally Computer Corporation, Inc., and Finally Properties, Inc., brings the instant appeal challenging an order of the Van Buren County Chancery Court: (1) granting an injunction in favor of appellee, Fairfield Bay Community Club, Inc., and restraining Vowell from taking any action directly or in... More...   $0 (10-18-2001 - AR)

Before the court for disposition is the defendant’s motion to dismiss the plaintiff’s complaint in this case involving a contract dispute. The plaintiff is Kinback Corporation, (hereinafter “Kinback”), a private corporation in the business of electrical construction and maintenance work, and the defendant is Quaker Construction Management, Inc., (hereinafter “Quak... More...   $0 (10-16-2001 - PA)

To understand... More...   $0 (10-12-2001 - MI)

This case arose out an agreement between plaintiff, a manufacturer’s representative company, and defendant Merit (Malta), L... More...   $0 (10-12-2001 - MI)

Appellee Randy Kellar brought suit against appellant Gregory Pabich for tortious interference with a business relationship, breach of fiduciary duty, and fraud. The jury found for Kellar on all issues, and the judgment awarded him $3,083,273.97 in actual and exemplary damages, as well as $433,273.97 in prejudgment interest. Pabich challenges the jury’s findings that he breached his fiduc... More...   $0 (10-11-2001 - TX)

Appellant, Popular Bank of Florida (“Popular Bank”), is chartered under the laws of t... More...   $0 (10-10-2001 - FL)

From 1992 through part of 1997, the Doctors, both practitioners of family medicine, worked at the Lavaca Family Health C... More...   $0 (09-28-2001 - TX)

Nearly fifty years after conducting an experiment in which over eight hundred pregnant women ingested a liquid substance that - unbeknownst to the women - contained radioactive iron isotopes, Vanderbilt University and the Vanderbilt University Medical Center ("Vanderbilt") were sued in a class action lawsuit. Vanderbilt settled the lawsuit and then sought indemnity from its insurers, St. Paul Fire... More...   $0 (09-28-2001 - TN)

This is defendant's appeal from a verdict entered after a bench trial on a whistleblower claim brought under the Conscientious Employees' Protection Act (CEPA), N.J.S.A. 34:19-1 to -8. Plaintiff cross-appeals the dismissal of his punitive damages claim as well as his tort claim against the individual defendant. The primary issues raised by this appeal are the proper burden of proof and the suffici... More...   $0 (09-27-2001 - NJ)

Sea Coast and Lu-Mar had a joint venture for the sale of shrimp on the wholesale market. Lu-Mar was to sell shrimp, at cost, to Sea Coast which would then market and re-sell the shrimp. The parties agreed to split the profits from the re-sales equally. Pursuant to the terms of the venture, from June, 1995 through December, 1997, approximately $28,000,000 worth of shrimp was sold to Sea Coast... More...   $0 (09-25-2001 - CA)

Sea Coast and Lu-Mar had a joint venture for the sale of shrimp on the wholesale market. Lu-Mar was to sell shrimp, at cost, to Sea Coast which would then market and re-sell the shrimp. The parties agreed to split the profits from the re-sales equally. Pursuant to the terms of the venture, from June, 1995 through December, 1997, approximately $28,000,000 worth of shrimp was sold to Sea Coast... More...   $0 (09-25-2001 - CA)

The plaintiffs appeal from an order confirming a decision by an arbitration panel that denied the plaintiffs all the relief they had sought. The plaintiffs are a securities broker-dealer and a life insurance company, both owned by American Express and both members of the National Association of Securities Dealers (the insurance company sells variable annuities, which are considered secu... More...   $0 (09-12-2001 - IL)

This appeal is the aftermath of a jury verdict that awarded plaintiff-appellee Celia Zimmerman $200,000 in compensatory damages and $400,000 in punitive damages on her claim for retaliation and an additional $130,000 in compensatory damages on her claim for tortious interference with advantageous relations.(1) Resolving the appeal requires us to realign the standard of review applicable to appeals... More...   $0 (09-04-2001 - MA)

Plaintiffs, Michael, Sharon and Ashley Blackard, filed the instant action in the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee alleging that Defendants, Memphis Area Medical Center for Women, Inc. ("MCW") and Fazel Manejwala, M.D., violated the Tennessee Parental Consent for Abortion by Minors Act (the "Act" or the "Parental Consent Act"), Tennessee Code Annotated §§ 37-10-301... More...   $0 (08-24-2001 - TN)

Yankee Candle Company ("Yankee"), a leading manufacturer of scented candles, sued competitor Bridgewater Candle Company ("Bridgewater") on counts of copyright infringement and trade dress infringement under federal law, as well as on state claims of common law trade dress infringement, tortious interference, and deceptive trade practices under Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 93A. The district court granted su... More...   $0 (08-07-2001 - MA)

Eileen Logan, an African-American female who had been employed by Defendant as a server for more than ten years, filed a seven-count complaint in the district court alleging, among other things, that Defendant violated her civil rights under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, by engaging in discriminatory treatment which led to Plaintiff's constructive discharge. On July 29, 1998, Defendan... More...   $0 (08-07-2001 - OH)

Burkhart Grob Luft und Raumfahrt GmbH & Co. KG ("Grob") sued E-Systems, Inc. ("E-Systems") for breach of contract, breach of a duty of good faith and fair dealing, tortious interference with a prospective business opportunity, and fraud arising out of the efforts of the two companies to win a government contract. A jury found for Grob on the fraud claim alone and awarded Grob $1 in actual damages ... More...   $1 (08-03-2001 - TX)

The plaintiff in this diversity suit (governed, all agree, by Illinois law) is an insurance company that we'll call "Cincinnati." The complaint seeks a declaration that Cincinnati has no duty to defend the two defendants, "Eastern" and "Integrity," under the basic liability policy that it had issued to them and under an umbrella liability policy that it had issued to Integrity alone. Eas... More...   $0 (08-02-2001 - IL)

ISS was a distributor of, and manufacturer's representative for, various products, principally avia... More...   $0 (07-30-2001 - FL)

[1] Manley C. Gove Sr. and Tri Berwick Realty, Inc., (collectively, Gove) appeal from the judgment of the Superior Court (York County, Fritzsche, J.) granting a summary judgment to Jonathan L. Carter, the town manager for the Town of Wells. Gove contends that the Superior Court erred in concluding that Carter was entitled to immunity from his suit pursuant to the Maine Tort Claims Act, 14 M... More...   $0 (07-27-2001 - ME)

The Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company ("3M") produces and markets a product known as carrier tape. When the company discovered that three of its employees had formed Accu- Tech Plastics ("Accu-Tech") to manufacture and market resin sheeting, the essential component of carrier tape, 3M brought suit. After dismissing certain 3M claims pursuant to Accu-Tech's summary judgment motio... More...   $0 (07-25-2001 - WI)