Mississippi Attorney General Sues State Farm Over Katrina Claims
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Mississippiâs attorney general, Jim Hood, said the company failed to honor an agreement for a mass settlement of claims over Hurricane Katrina damage.
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SACRAMENTO -- California's attorney general yesterday sued the six largest US and Japanese automakers, including GM, Ford , and Toyota , alleging that emissions from their vehicles have harmed health, damaged the environment, and cost the state millions to combat the effects.
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A lawyer who engineered a settlement with State Farm argued that the deal should be approved because it could give millions to victims of Hurricane Katrina by the end of the year.
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By Geoff Pender, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 9--JACKSON -- Gov. Haley Barbour says a bill that passed the House on Thursday to "tweak" last year's Gulf Regional Water Act could jeopardize hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding for water and sewerage in South Mississippi.
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Jackson, Miss. -- Bending to legal pressure, the state agreed Thursday to restore benefits to more than 50,000 Mississippians who were dropped from the Medicaid rolls to save money.
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An animal-rights group has filed a federal lawsuit accusing the U.S. Department of Agriculture of improperly withholding information gathered during its investigation into the near-fatal tiger attack on illusionist Roy Horn.
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Minnesota's attorney general has sued  credit card issuer Capital One Financial Corp. COF.N,  accusing the big U.S. credit card issuer of falsely advertising  low rates and defrauding consumers.
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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today filed a lawsuit against two flu shot distributors, accusing them of selling vials of vaccine to hospitals in Houston, Dallas and Sherman at inflated prices.
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The line of people filing new claims for jobless benefits grew last week, hurt by damage to businesses caused by Hurricane Charley, a US government report showed.
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Louisiana taxpayers paid more than $360,000 for the failed prosecution of the owners of a nursing home where 35 people died during Hurricane Katrina, according to documents obtained Friday by The Associated Press.
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The Bush administration is challenging a court order requiring it to make housing payments to thousands of families whose homes were damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
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NEW YORK - State Street Corp. , the largest US money manager for institutions, was sued by Unisystems Inc. for investing bond funds in high-risk mortgage-backed securities, at least the second such lawsuit filed by a client this month.
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The Orleans Parish sheriff was accused in a lawsuit Friday of violating the civil rights of inmates in his custody during Hurricane Katrina's aftermath.
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The state attorney general filed a civil lawsuit Wednesday accusing a sales catalog company of actually being a loansharking operation that preys on cash-strapped military families.
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Residents whose homes were flooded during Hurricane Katrina can sue the Army Corps of Engineers over claims the agency ignored warnings about defects in a nearby navigation channel, a federal judge ruled Friday.
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By MICHELLE ROBERTS  NEW ORLEANS - Two nursing home owners who were arrested after 34 of their patients died in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are suing the government, saying federal, state and local officials they failed to evacuate vulnerable citizens as the storm approached.
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Accusations against an attorney who worked on a federal case in which black farmers claimed the government denied them loans because of their race could affect the landmark civil rights settlement.