News from December 2012
Ill. AG files suits against forensic loan audit schemes
CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) - Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed lawsuits Tuesday against two companies that allegedly promised loan assistance to struggling homeowners while adding to their targets' financial difficulties.
N.Y. AG warns of settlement scam
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman issued a warning Monday to tenants of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village in Manhattan about a possible scam related to a recent rent-rebate settlement.
Indiana AG sues two foreclosure consultants
CROWN POINT, Ind. (Legal Newsline) - Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller announced two lawsuits on Monday against foreclosure consultants that allegedly took more than $2,600 from local homeowners and failed to provide services or refunds.
Mass. AG announces $3.25 million settlement with EP Energy
BOSTON (Legal Newsline) - Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced a $3.25 million settlement Monday with an electric generating company, its contractors and its engineers to settle allegations of illegally filling wastewater treatment basins and a landfill.
Mass. AG wants National Grid to rectify pay issues
BOSTON (Legal Newsline) - Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley sent a letter Friday requesting that National Grid rectify wage issues that left close to 2,000 Massachusetts workers unpaid by Dec. 21.
Scruggs' appeal to be heard in March
NEW ORLEANS (Legal Newsline) - Disgraced attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs' appeal of his conviction will be heard early next year by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.
'InJustice' premieres Tuesday on ASX TV
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – An award-winning documentary chronicling personal injury lawyers who abused the nation’s civil justice system premieres Tuesday on national television.
Roche wants Accutane case reassigned
ATLANTIC CITY (Legal Newsline) - Attorneys for Roche Laboratories have filed a motion for recusal with Judge Carol E. Higbee of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Atlantic County Division, over which the Judge presides.
N.Y. AG praises new EPA soot standards
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) – New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman expressed praise
Wash. AG forces changes at horse charity
SEATTLE (Legal Newsline) - Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna has announced a settlement with a Snohomish County horse rescue charity to resolve allegations of misusing charitable funds.
Mass. AG files ideas for improving utility standards
BOSTON (Legal Newsline) - Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley filed a report Thursday based on her office's review of the standards used to measure the service quality of electric and gas companies.
New York AG files price gouging suit against tree service
ALBANY, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) - New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a lawsuit on Thursday against American Tree Company and its principals for allegedly price gouging consumers during Tropical Storm Irene in 2011.
Many awaiting ACA's impact on small-group insurance
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) -- As the Affordable Care Act is nearing full implementation, stakeholders are watching closely to see how the small-group insurance market is affected.
Washington AG files suit against text message spammers
SEATTLE (Legal Newsline) - Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit Monday against a Florida company that allegedly sent tens of thousands of unauthorized texts offering payday loans to Washington residents.
Arizona AG gets $10M judgment against telemarketers
PHOENIX (Legal Newsline) - Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne announced a more than $10 million judgment on Wednesday against a group of Arizona telemarketers that allegedly engaged in fraudulent telemarketing of work-at-home business opportunities around the country.
N.Y. AG announces antitrust suit against two tour bus operators
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and the U.S. Department of Justice announced an antitrust lawsuit on Tuesday against two tour bus operators that allegedly formed an anticompetitive joint venture.
Pfizer agrees to $42.9 million multi-state settlement
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Legal Newsline) - A $42.9 million multi-state settlement was announced on Wednesday with Pfizer Inc. to resolve allegations of fraudulent marketing sales of the drugs Lyrica and Zyvox.
N.Y. AG announces new nonprofit regulations
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has announced new regulations that would require nonprofit groups to report the percentage of their expenditures that go to electioneering.
California tops Judicial Hellholes list
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - California finds itself at the top of this year's Judicial Hellholes rankings, knocking Philadelphia from the perch.