U-46 lawyers blasted for bill (Daily Herald)

    A nine-page document recently filed by two teams of lawyers for Elgin Area School District U-46 shows why costs in the four-year-old racial discrimination lawsuit continue to mount — and show no...
Norfolk Southern, Avondale reach settlement (The Augusta Chronicle)

    COLUMBIA — Avondale Mills, which closed after a train wreck and toxic chemical spill in Graniteville in 2005, has agreed to settle a lawsuit with Norfolk Southern, an attorney for the textile...
Potholes leave driver with £1,000 repair bill

    A MOTORIST has been left facing a four-figure repair bill after his car was badly damaged on a potholed road… ...
Dateline Iowa (The Des Moines Register)

    A roundup of news from across the state. ...
No Win No Fee Claim Struck Out for “SHaken Baby” Mother

    A mother who was freed after being wrongly convicted and imprisoned for manslaughter in a “shaken baby” case lost her High Court bid for compensation today. Lorraine Harris, 38, claimed she had suffered...
Accident Claim Compensation from NHS over son’s disability

    AN East Devon family, whose baby son was left seriously disabled after an operation, has won an 11-year legal fight with the NHS. The boy, who is now 13, was left with serious...
DC court blooper 2 – MS verdict emailed two hours early

    Isn’t technology wonderful? The early escape of the Microsoft verdict was more widespread and serious than first appeared. Initially it seemed that the court’s techies had just made the documents available on the...
Farmer Wins £102000 in Compensation

    A FARMER has won a lengthy court bid for compensation after his broken leg became infected with the hospital superbug MRSA and had to be amputated below the knee. Ten years after he...
Whitewater offrers No Win No Fee Service

    Whitewater, the charity specialist direct marketing agency, is putting its neck on the line by offering its services on a ‘no win, no fee’ basis. The agency is offering all its existing consumers...
Citigroup Confirms $33 Million Smith Barney Gender Bias Settlement (Insurance Journal)

    Citigroup Inc. Friday confirmed it agreed to pay $33 million to about 2,500 current and former female brokers at its Smith Barney unit to settle a class-action gender discrimination lawsuit. The ag ...