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Lawyers for Morgan Stanley announced Monday, October 29 that their client had agreed to pay $46,000,000 in cash to resolve a class action gender discrimination lawsuit filed by female employees of the company. The terms of the settlement include not only the financial compensation but requires Morgan Stanley to make changes to the manner in which it compensates and promotes employees as well as...

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In Lexington, Kentucky, Attorney J. Dale Golden filed suit against Allstate on behalf of one of their insureds, Geniva Hager. Internal documents obtained during discovery against Allstate Insurance Company show that the company and their consultants created a computer program to generate low settlement values for injury claims, sent fraudulent data to government regulators to avoid...

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The family of a young boy who was the victim of a dog attack in Mother's Day 2005 recently received a $850,000 jury award, which included $500,000 in punitive damages due to the negligence of the dog owner. The 100-pound Rottweiler left permanent scarring on the child's back and hips.The jury deliberated for less than three hours before awarding Keeton Manguso and his mother $856,000, which...

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An Arizona Jury awarded 8.5 Million dollars to a family of a young girl that was hit and killed by a drunk driver. The defendants included not only the drunk driver, but the Pima County road authority. The jury found that the county road authority failed to have adequate sight distances and were negligent in the lighting of the roadway.The Arizona daily Star reports, The Moody family's lawyer,...

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A Casselberry police officer that filed a slip and fall lawsuit has now withdrawn the suit. There was a large public outcry and pressure from within the police department for her to do so. The officer fell at a home while responding to a 911 call. Eichhorn was one of several officers sent to their home Jan. 9 after the boy's mother called 911 to report that her 1-year-old son had wandered into...

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A motorcycle driver was killed in a collison with a car in Sheridan Township. The motorcycle accident happened last Monday evening. The victim was on his motorcycle traveling northbound on Maple Island Road just south of 48th St. when he was hit. The driver of the other vehicle sustained minor injuries in the crash. The name of the driver is being withheld pending further investigation. He...

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A widow in Lisle lost her husband to a heart attack and now her insurance claim to his group life insurance policy has been denied. Her husband was a Broome County Sheriff's Deputy. He had taken out a group life insurance policy through work. And while Amy Taylor is running out of money, her husband's employer and union are looking into how and why Chris Taylor's $150,000 policy -- which...

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A police officer in Salem was forced to shot a dog as it tried to attack him. A person had received a dog bite by from the dogs and police were called in to investigate. He was in his police cruiser when two barking dogs saw a girl enter the alley. He got out of his car and tried to direct the dogs in his direction. "When he yelled, the larger and clearly more aggressive of the two dogs,...

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A blackened field that was the site of a gas explosion has become a local attraction and it is also now the scene of a car accident. The driver in one car was killed and his wife was hurt when they drove to the area to look at the scene. The car accident happened on Wednesday morning. their car made a U-turn on 142nd into the path of a pickup and was broadsided, Allegan County sheriff's...

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Timothy P. Smith has been a trial attorney since graduating from Notre Dame Law School in 1992. He has tried injury cases through out the State of Michigan from Cass County to Cheboygan. He holds the record for the single largest plaintiffs verdict in the history of Oscoda County. He has recovered millions for his clients. He is an Executive Board member for the Michigan Association for Justice,...

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