Consumer Law

In the News

By Andy Hoffman

A jury ruled that two off-duty Fresno, CA police officers were liable for helping a relative beat up an unsuspecting Christmas tree farmer.

The Justice Department agreed to settle with an Army National Guard member who filed suit after being denied a promotion at work because of her outside military duties.

A contractor and an engineering firm have agreed to settle a lawsuit filed after a Microsoft attorney was killed when a tower crane collapsed onto his Bellevue, WA apartment.

Iowa is a ?governor's signature away? from allowing Iowans to sue under its version of the consumer fraud act?however, ?insurance companies, banks, lawyers, cable-TV providers, doctors, veterinarians, and architects? will all be exempt from the new law.

A class-action settlement will require New Jersey's largest health-insurance provider, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, to cover claims for treatment of eating disorders.

Full post as published by ThePopTort on April 23, 2009 (boomark / email).