News from October 2007
Digging deeper into case between W. Va. AG candidates
Lewis A closer look at State of West Virginia, ex rel. Attorney General Darrell V. McGraw, Jr. v. Iams Funeral Home, d/b/a Iams and Iams Funeral Home, Inc, et al, a case in Wetzel County Circuit Court in which current Attorney General McGraw is facing Republican challenger Hiram Lewis, who is representing John Iams II.
No referendum for critics of Ohio tort reform law
Brunner COLUMBUS, Ohio - A lack of public interest may finally make Senate Bill 117 permanently a law.
Indiana AG nails eight more companies on junk-fax law
Steve Carter INDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter has wielded a law passed last year against more than a dozen companies for sending unsolicited faxes to state businesses.
First Republican joins Ala. SC race
Main MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Alabama's finance director will attempt to join the state's Supreme Court next year.
Stumbo wants businesses to clean up their trash
Stumbo FRANKFORT, Ky. - Kentucky Attorney General Greg Stumbo recently went through the trash of some businesses around the state and did not like what he found.
Defendant in McGraw suit represented by Republican rival
Lewis NEW MARTINSVILLE, W. Va. - Before they wage war on the campaign trail, West Virginia's candidates for Attorney General will battle in a Wetzel County courtroom.
Blumenthal after debt raters
Blumenthal HARTFORD, Conn. - Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is investigating the commercial debt rating industry for possible violations of antitrust laws.
Cuomo wins eminent domain dispute
Cuomo ALBANY, N.Y. - New York legislators did not violate a company's right to equal protection when they enacted a law that protected homeowners from the eminent-domain seizing of their homes by private transmission companies, a federal judge recently ruled.
HIV patient's suit too late, Ga. SC says
Hunstein ATLANTA - A Georgia man who did not discover until he was 17 years old that he had contracted pediatric AIDS as an infant will not win his suit against the medical care providers that failed to diagnose him.
Insurer agrees to pay off bid-rigging allegations
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - ACE Group Holdings has settled bid-rigging allegations brought against it by eight states and the District of Columbia for $4.5 million.
W. Va. SC OKs first med mal class-action suit
Masters CHARLESTON, W. Va. - Kanawha Circuit Judge Charles King will preside over West Virginia's first medical malpractice class-action lawsuit.
Airline company wins appeal, despite "window dressing"
Starcher CHARLESTON, W. Va. - Colgan Air's tumultuous time before the West Virginia Supreme Court concluded Thursday with an ideal outcome for the company.
Majority can sell JV assets to related party: Wash. SC
Justice Charles W. Johnson OLYMPIA -- Controlling partners do not violate the "duty of loyalty" to a business partnership if they sell the partnership's assets to a related party, the Washington Supreme Court ruled yesterday.
WV AG's chief deputy calls proposed code 'a red herring'
Fran Hughes CHARLESTON, W.V. - Attorney General Darrell McGraw's chief deputy on Thursday called the U.S. Chamber's Institute for Legal Reform's proposed code of conduct for AGs an attempt to stop AGs across the country from enforcing consumer laws.
W.Va. AG's office sued funeral home
McGraw CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Attorney General Darrell McGraw's office on Wednesday filed suit against a Wetzel County funeral home and its owner, alleging misappropriation of preneed funeral money.
Hardships ahead for businesses, pair says
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Two political experts told attendees of a U.S. Chamber of Commerce function that businesses may soon face more challenges.
Proposed Code of Conduct to be given to AGs
Rickard WASHINGTON, D.C. - Citing a need to end prejudicial practices, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for Legal Reform proposed a new code of conduct for state attorneys general Wednesday.
Courtroom trends against businesses discussed at Summit
Manning WASHINGTON, D.C. - When leading off the portion of Wednesday's Legal Reform Summit dealing with the latest trends in business litigation, attorney Chris Manning offered a few images and asked a simple question -- which one of them didn't belong.
ND workers comp. staffers tell AG of payback fears
Wayne Stenehjem BISMARCK -- Three senior staffers at the state's troubled workers' compensation bureaucracy have asked North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem to protect them as whistleblowers.
N.C. Justice will run again
Edmunds RALEIGH, N.C. - Republican Bob Edmunds will seek another term on the North Carolina Supreme Court in 2008, he said Tuesday.