Lawsuit Abuse Impact News

Over the past eight years, Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has spent or budgeted nearly $1.6 million to fight a class-action lawsuit over tardy claims adjustments following the hurricanes of 2005.

California has long struggled to find the right balance between making sure the disabled have access to public places and protecting businesses from burdensome lawsuits. After lengthy negotiations, advocates for the disabled, trial attorneys and business groups came up with a compromise that took effect in January 2009. It created ground rules to allow businesses to be certified by the state as being in compliance.

U.S. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., forwarded to his supporters Friday an article from Legal Newsline, a Chicago newswire owned by the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform. The group contends Louisiana’s judicial system is unfair to businesses, therefore state law should be changed to make it more difficult for injured parties to file and litigate lawsuits.

A Philadelphia woman has filed a legal malpractice lawsuit against her attorney nephew for allegedly not pursuing a personal injury claim on the plaintiff’s behalf following a motor vehicle accident, and subsequently allowing the statute of limitations on the prior civil action to expire.