Holocaust Insurance Case Inches Closer to Settlement
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A federal judge cleared the way for a long-running dispute over unpaid life insurance claims for Holocaust victims to move a step closer to a settlement.
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The Jewish Claims Conference joined with Polish restitution organizations Wednesday to appeal for the return of private property seized in the country during World War II and under Communist rule.Comment
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BERLIN -- Heirs of a Jewish family that lost its German department store fortune under the Nazis have won a court verdict that advances their $193 million claim to property on a famous Berlin square, a lawyer said yesterday.
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Holocaust survivors and relatives of those who perished have a chance to recover money long held by Swiss banks with the release on Thursday of a new list of 3,100 names of account owners who may have been Nazi victims.
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Jewish settlers in the occupied territories will soon be able to claim compensation, sometimes of more than Â£270,000, under guidelines approved yesterday by Israel&#39;s security cabinet for the Gaza withdrawal plan.
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The U.S. government has agreed to settle  a lawsuit with tens of thousands of Hungarian Holocaust  survivors over a trainload of gold, jewelry and other property  seized by the U.S. Army at the end of World War II, lawyers  said on Monday.
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Deal moves closer to completion, but is still subject to shareholder approval.
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Two more countries have endorsed opening a Nazi war archive to Holocaust museums, bringing the documents locked away for more than half a century a step closer to release, Red Cross officials said Tuesday.
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A lawsuit accusing Credit Suisse   of aiding fraud at bankrupt healthcare finance  company National Century Financial Enterprises moved another  step closer to trial after a U.S. judge said it was too soon to  dismiss the suit, as requested by the Swiss investment bank.
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Agreement on moving class-action suits to federal courts indicates bridge building between parties, for now.
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U.S. Holocaust survivors expressed dismay on Thursday that documents found in Vienna were not used to help settle insurance claims by descendants of Jews whose families had property seized by the Nazis.
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The plaintiffs in more than a third of the remaining suits filed by relatives of September 11 victims seeking compensation from airlines and their security contractors have agreed to settle a week before the first case was to be heard in court.
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A record-breaking, &#36;100-million clergy sex abuse settlement between the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange and 87 plaintiffs brought some measure of relief to long-suffering families Friday, but legal experts differed over whether the blockbuster deal would help resolve a huge backlog of cases in California.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 25 -- As Lea Ingel waited at John F. Kennedy International Airport, she was not sure what she would say when she was reunited with the Catholic woman whose family sheltered her on their Lithuania farm during the Holocaust.
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Pending court approval, suits brought by victims of what is believed to be the largest data breach ever could be resolved soon.
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Berlin and Warsaw have moved closer to  ending a row over Germany's plans to mark the expulsion of  millions of Germans from eastern Europe after World War Two, a  subject that has strained relations for years.
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Just as the Dutch government was moving to discourage new claims for restitution of art looted during World War II, the heirs of a Dutch Jewish art dealer have filed one of the largest claims to date.