Plaintiffs-Appellants Robert and Amanda Thomas appeal from the district
court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Defendants-Appellees
Metropolitan Life Insurance Companies, Inc. and Metlife Securities, Inc.
(sometimes collectively referred to as “Met”). Plaintiffs filed a putative class
action on behalf of class members who bought life insurance products from Met.
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Plaintiffs, representing a class of former employees of Emery Worldwide Airlines, Inc. (EWA), appeal from the entry of judgment in favor of defendants EWA and its parent company CNF Corporation on claims brought under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988 (WARN Act), 29 U.S.C. §§ 2101-2109. Plaintiffs’ principal claim is that the district court erred in finding, at the ... More...   $0 (02-16-2011 - OH)

Sharon Pratt sued Dr. Steven Keefe and CAP Quality Care on medical negligence and respondeat superior theories claiming that she was wrongfully given high doses of methadone. She claimed that she had overdosed several times and had been warned to tell the clinic reduce her dosage.

Defendants denied wrongdoing.

According to The Portland Press Herald:

"A jury has awarde... More...   $244000 (02-12-2011 - ME)

¶1. In this wrongful death, product liability case, the jury awarded the plaintiffs $4.5 million, or $1.5 million for each of three decedents, finding that the automobile at issue was defective in both its design and manufacture. In an effort to convince this Court to reverse the trial judgment and to render judgment in its favor, Hyundai challenges the reliability of the plaintiffs’ three exp... More...   $0 (02-10-2011 - MS)

Plaintiffs-Appellants Robert and Amanda Thomas appeal from the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Defendants-Appellees Metropolitan Life Insurance Companies, Inc. and Metlife Securities, Inc. (sometimes collectively referred to as “Met”). Plaintiffs filed a putative class action on behalf of class members who bought life insurance products from Met. Two issues are before ... More...   $0 (02-10-2011 - OK)

The Washington product liability act (WPLA), chapter 7.72 RCW, sets forth a statutory form of vicarious liability whereby a product seller assumes the liability of a manufacturer where a product is marketed under the seller’s brand name. Because permitting the product seller to attribute fault to the actual manufacturer would abrogate this provision of the WPLA, principles of comparative fault d... More...   $0 (02-07-2011 - WA)

The children of Valmore Locarno Rodriguez, Victor Hugo Orcasita Amaya, and Gustavo Soler Mora, three former union leaders murdered in Colombia in 2001 (“the Children”), appeal from the dismissal of their complaint against Appellee-Defendants, Drummond Company, Inc., Drummond Ltd.,1 Augusto Jimenez, and Alfredo Araujo.2 The Children allege that these Drummond entities and employees hired parami... More...   $0 (02-03-2011 - AL)

In this slip-and-fall case, appellant, Crystle Coburn, sued Toys “R” Us – Delaware, Inc. d/b/a Toys “R” Us #7009 (“Toys R Us”) for negligence after she allegedly slipped on a “slippery substance” and sustained injuries. Toys R Us moved for traditional and no-evidence summary judgment, contending that Coburn could present no evidence that Toys R Us had either actual or construc... More...   $0 (02-03-2011 - TX)

This case concerns an insurance company’s duty under Colorado law to defend its insureds against claims by third parties. The plaintiff/appellants, David Panico and Janice Panico (the Panicos), sold a property and the buyers, Martha Cesery Taylor and Walter Taylor (the Taylors), sued them upon discovering the property was not as represented.1 State Farm Fire and Casualty Company (State Farm) ref... More...   $0 (02-03-2011 - CO)

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company appeals an order assessing attorney’s fees against it as a sanction for a mistrial caused by its expert witness, Dr. Stephen Wender. Finding that there is no evidence, and no finding, of bad faith on the part of State Farm itself, we reverse the order. We do so without prejudice, however, to the appellee’s right to seek the imposition of such a sa... More...   $0 (02-03-2011 - FL)

Lorie Peterson and Clayton Peterson appeal the circuit court's order denying their motion for a new trial on Mr. Peterson's claim for loss of consortium. A jury found that Mrs. Peterson had sustained a permanent injury as a result of an automobile accident caused by an employee of Sun State International Trucks, LLC.

The jury awarded Mrs. Peterson damages for her injuries but awarded nothin... More...   $0 (02-02-2011 - FL)

¶1 Chad Gottfried (Father) appeals an order granting a petition by Crisis Pregnancy Outreach, Inc. (C.P.O.) pursuant to 10 O.S.2001 § 7505-2.12 to terminate his parental rights to L.D.B. and to allow adoption of the child without his consent pursuant to grounds stated in 10 O.S.2001 § 7505-4.2. The trial court's order finding Father failed to provide Jamye Beasley (Mother) with support during h... More...   $0 (01-28-2011 - OK)

Sukhsagar Pannu suffered a severe spinal injury, resulting in quadriplegia, when his Land Rover Discovery (Series 1) sport utility vehicle rolled over following a chain of collisions on the 118 Freeway near Simi Valley. Pannu sued Land Rover North America, Inc., Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC and Terry York Motor Cars, Ltd., doing business as Land Rover Encino (collectively Land Rover) alleg... More...   $0 (01-19-2011 - CA)

Richard Vega, a member of Emilio Navaira's Tejano singer's band, sued Navaira on a negligence theory for the injuries and damages he sustained as a result of bus wreck that occurred on a Houston-area expressway in 2008. Plaintiff claimed that Defendant was intoxicated at the time and claimed that his liver was lacerated and his shoulder was dislocated.

Navaira plead guilty to DWI. He su... More...   $94428 (01-14-2011 - TX)

Family and Estates of Casey and Melanie Barber sued Mossy Ford on negligence theories for the wrongful deaths of the couple who were killed in a rollover accident in Page, Arizona in July of 2006. Plaintiffs, the sons of the deceased couple, claimed that their parents' Ford E350 Sportsmobile rolled over after a right-rear tire tread separation led to the crash. The claimed that Defendant's employe... More...   $14465864 (01-14-2011 - CA)

We are asked to review a partial final judgment entered in an ongoing circuit court proceeding. By motion to dismiss the amended complaint that had added it as a party defendant more than two years after a fatal automobile accident, J.P.A. Enterprises, LLC, set up the statute of limitations as foreclosing wrongful death claims against it. The amended complaint had alleged that three persons died, ... More...   $0 (01-13-2011 - FL)

Appellee, Rimkus Consulting Group, Inc. (“Rimkus”), sued appellant, Randall Crane, for breach of contract, suit on an account, and quantum meruit, arising out of Crane’s failure to pay Rimkus for litigation evaluation services. The trial court rendered summary judgment in favor of Rimkus on its breach of contract claim.[1] In three issues on appeal, Crane contends that the trial court erre... More...   $0 (01-13-2011 - TX)

Theodore Herring, Jr. and Carmen Dawson appeal from a final judgment entered by the trial court following the court’s granting of a partial summary judgment in favor of appellee Heron Lakes Estates Owners Association, Inc. and a subsequent bench trial. In two issues, Herring and Dawson argue that the trial court erred in granting the partial summary judgment in favor of the Association on its b... More...   $0 (01-04-2011 - TX)

Plaintiff Alan Cler suffered severe injury to his arm and hand after receiving intravenous chemotherapy treatment from defendant Oregon Hematology Oncology Associates, PC. Cler and his wife (plaintiffs) brought this action against defendant, alleging that one of defendant's nurses had caused Cler's injury by negligently administering the chemotherapy treatment. During defendant's closing argumen... More...   $0 (12-30-2010 - OR)

A large Safeway tractor trailer was parked legally on the side of U.S. Highway 101 (101) close to an intersection near Crescent City. The position of the tractor trailer blocked the view of oncoming traffic for a driver attempting to cross and turn onto 101. The driver‘s pickup truck collided with motorcyclist Charles Lawson whose wife Connie was riding with him as they traveled on 101. The Laws... More...   $0 (12-30-2010 - CA)

No one’s memory is perfect. People forget things or get confused, and anyone can make an innocent misstatement or two. Or maybe even three or four. But not 868 of them. In this case, the plaintiff’s attorneys, William and Karen Amlong, filed a sixty-three page errata sheet containing 868 attempted changes to their client’s deposition testimony, which was the sole source of evidentiary suppor... More...   $0 (12-28-2010 - FL)

On November 10, 2009, Patricia Mills (“Plaintiff”), individually and on her deceased mother’s behalf, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Booth and James Turlington (“Turlington”). Plaintiff is the daughter of Altha Turlington (the “Decedent”) who was killed in the automobile accident that occurred on November 8, 2008. The Decedent was a passenger in a vehicle being driven by Turl... More...   $0 (12-28-2010 - TN)

Family and Estates of Mark Saylor, Cleofe Lastrella, Mahala Saylorand Chris Lastrella sued Toyota of North America and Bob Baker Lexus on products liability theories for the wrongful deaths of Salyor, his wife, daughter and brother-in-law who all died in a high speed crash blamed on a stuck accelerator peddle in August of 2009. Salyor was driving a Lexus ES loaned to him by Bob Baker Lexus.
... More...   $10000000 (12-24-2010 - CA)

This diversity jurisdiction case presents issues concerning federal preemption and sufficient pleading of a plaintiff’s claim that she has been injured by a medical device—a hip replacement— allegedly manufactured in violation of federal law.

Plaintiff Margaret J. Bausch appeals the district court’s dismissal of her case against defendants Stryker Corporation, HOC, and Stryker Irela... More...   $0 (12-23-2010 - IL)

Gary Weinstein sued Thomas Wellinger on tort theory for the wrongful death of his wife and sons for their wrongful deaths and USG Corporation on a respondeat superior theory. Judy Weinstein and her sons Sam, age 9, and Alex, age 12, were killed when their Honda Accord was hit by a GMC Yukon Denali in May 2005 in Farmington Hills. Plaintiff claimed that Wellinger was acting within the scope and c... More...   $0 (12-18-2010 - )