Nevada News
February 13, 2012
Las Vegas Review Journal |
February 13, 2012
Bank of America Corp., aside from the nationwide foreclosure deal, has settled a separate lawsuit over mortgage modifications brought by Nevada for almost $800 million, state Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto said Friday.
Tags: Financial Services, Nevada
December 22, 2011
Legal Newsline |
December 22, 2011
Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto is defending her decision to hire a private law firm to sue a loan processing company.
Tags: Nevada, State Attorneys General
December 7, 2011
Washington Post |
December 7, 2011
In the latest sign that some attorneys general are no longer pinning their hopes on a broad state and federal settlement with big banks, two states battered by housing foreclosures announced a plan Tuesday to combine forces to investigate mortgage fraud and related misdeeds.
December 6, 2011
Legal Newsline |
December 6, 2011
A Nevada judge says an out-of-state asbestos law firm did not do enough to ensure its client was adequately represented.
Tags: Asbestos, Legal Ethics, Nevada
November 14, 2011
Las Vegas Review-Journal |
November 14, 2011
Wachovia Bank NA, now Wells Fargo & Co., has agreed to pay $37 million to settle a lawsuit that alleges several banks rigged bidding competitions to win municipal investment, derivative and other business from states and local governments.
Tags: Nevada
October 12, 2011
Forbes |
October 12, 2011
“It only took two atomic bombs to force the Japanese to surrender.“ Saber rattling from a military leader or despotic strongman? Nope, a pithy quote by Nevada plaintiffs’ lawyer Will Kemp to a Bloomberg reporter in the wake of his clients being awarded $162.5 million in punitive damages in a suit against medical product manufacturers Teva and Baxter Healthcare.
Tags: Medical Liability, Nevada
Washington Post |
October 12, 2011
A Nevada jury found drug companies liable Wednesday for $104 million in damages in a third product liability lawsuit stemming from a hepatitis C outbreak four years ago at Las Vegas outpatient colonoscopy clinics owned by a doctor now facing state and federal criminal charges.
Tags: Medical Liability, Nevada
October 10, 2011
Washington Post |
October 10, 2011
A Nevada jury on Monday ordered three pharmaceutical companies to pay $162.5 million in punitive damages in a lawsuit that accused them of negligently distributing large vials of an anesthetic to Las Vegas clinics at the center of a 2008 hepatitis C outbreak.
Tags: Medical Liability, Nevada
October 7, 2011
October 6, 2011
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