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  • July 21, 2000 | Daily Business Review

    Rolling the Dice

    Late last year, Mike Langford, an Orlando, Fla.-area man, was injured in a car accident and filed a personal injury lawsuit against the other driver. Langford needed money to pay his medical b

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  • Commercial Financial Services Inc. v. Great American Insurance Co. of New York

    Publication Date: 2003-06-20
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    Judge Patterson COMMERCIAL FINANCIAL SERVICES INC. v. GREAT AMERICAN INSURANCE CO. — Defendants Great American Insurance Company of New York (“Great American”) and Ohio

  • Potvin v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

    Publication Date: 2000-05-09
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    Date Filed: 2000-05-08
    Court: Cal. Sup. Ct.
    Judge: Brown, Baxter, Chin, Kennard, George, Mosk, Werdegar
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Catherine I. Hanson, Astrid G. Meghrigian, Ann Allen, and Joseph R. Grodin
    for defendant: Harry W. R. Chamberlain II, Ellen Kamon, Cary S. Samuels, Ann C. Schneider, J. Mark Waxman, Lowell C. Brown, Robyn A. Meinhardt, Hema R. Anwar, William A. Helvestine, Paul A. Stewart, David M. Rice, Mark E. Reagan, Davis Wright Tremaine, Peter N. Grant, Harry Shulman, W. Reece Hirsch, Davis Wright Tremaine, and W. Clark Stanton
    Case Number: No. S061945

    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion.After removal from defendant insurance company' s "preferred provider" lists, plaintiff physician brought th

  • In re: Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Master Fund Ltd., 07-cv-08730

    Publication Date: 2008-06-09
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    Date Filed: 2008-05-22
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District
    Judge: Robert Sweet
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    Case Number: 07-cv-08730

    District Judge Robert W. Sweet U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Appearances: Attorneys for Joint Official Liquidators: By: F

  • Spann v. AOL Time Warner

    Publication Date: 2005-06-13
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    U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Judge Cote The plaintiffs in this class action brought claims pursuant to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act

  • September 24, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Social Networks and Personal Injury Suits

    Social networking Web sites such as Facebook and MySpace have become an increasingly popular vehicle for people to communicate with friends and family, share their innermost thoughts, feelings and

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  • Viasystems, Inc v. Ebm-Papst St. Georgen Gmbh & Co., Kg

    Publication Date: 2011-07-20
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    Date Filed: 2011-07-21
    Court: 8th Cir.
    Judge: Gruender, Circuit Judge.
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    Case Number: 10-2460

    Submitted: February 16, 2011Before SMITH, GRUENDER, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.Viasystems, Inc., a Missouri-based corporation, filed suit against EBM-Papst St. Georgen GmbH & Co., KG (

  • March 27, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

    Informed Consent at Issue in Cases Involving Rabies-Infected Kidneys

    Families of two people who died after receiving rabies-infected organs have filed separate suits against the hospital and others involved in the transplants, alleging that the defendants failed to

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  • M.R. v. A.D.

    Publication Date: 2012-03-08
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    Court: Supreme Court, New York County, Part 24
    Judge: Justice Ellen Gesmer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Counsel for Plaintiff: Jason Advocate, Advocate & Lichtenstein, LLP, New York, NY.
    for defendant: Counsel for Defendant: Maxine Shapiro, Eleanor Alter, Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman, LLP, New York, NY.
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    Cite as: M.R. v. A.D., NYLJ 1202544724231, at *1 (Sup., NY, Decided February 29 )Justice Ellen GesmerDecided: February 29

  • Richard Betker v. Rodolfogomez, Police Officer

    Publication Date: 2012-09-10
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    Date Filed: 2012-09-05
    Court: 7th Cir.
    Judge: Williams, Circuit Judge.
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    Case Number: 11-3009

    ARGUED JUNE 8, 2012Before POSNER, FLAUM, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.Richard Betker was shot twice during a late-night police raid on his home. The officer who shot him was part of a tact