Jury selected in Katrina insurance suit
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A seven-member jury was chosen Monday in the first trial for one of the several thousand lawsuits that Louisiana homeowners filed against their insurers in federal court after Hurricane Katrina.
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ST. FRANCISVILLE, Louisiana  - The owners of a New Orleans-area nursing home were found not guilty of all charges on Friday in the deaths of 35 residents who drowned in one of the worst tragedies of Hurricane Katrina.
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NEW YORK CITY-Late yesterday, a jury determined that the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center constituted two occurrences for insurance purposes.
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A jury decided Monday that the attacks on the World Trade Center were two separate events for insurance purposes, meaning leaseholder Larry Silverstein can collect up to &#36;4.6 billion for rebuilding efforts.
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Companies facing higher costs after jury rules Sept. 11 attacks can be treated as separate events. PARIS  - European insurers could appeal a US jury decision that treats the 2001 hijacked plane attacks
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The owners of a New Orleans-area  nursing home were indicted on charges of negligent homicide  late on Wednesday in the drowning deaths of 35 residents during  Hurricane Katrina.
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Jury selection begins in the Kobe Bryant rape case on Friday when hundreds of potential jurors fill out a questionnaire to help determine if they can sit in judgment in a trial involving race, sex and celebrity.
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Jury selection began Thursday in the fraud trial of a celebrity pathologist accused of using his public office and county staff to benefit his multimillion-dollar private practice.
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By Brian Brueggemann, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Feb. 21--EDWARDSVILLE -- The process of picking a jury began Tuesday for a Madison County trial on whether the maker of the painkilling medicine Vioxx withheld information about the drug's risks.
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The owners of a New Orleans nursing home are acquitted over the deaths of 35 patients in Hurricane Katrina.
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The Louisiana Supreme Court on Friday upheld two new state laws giving policyholders more time to sue their insurers or file claims over damage from hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
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More than 300 potential jurors have been summoned for the trial of a reputed Ku Klux Klansman accused of abducting, beating and dumping two young black men into the Mississippi River 43 years ago.
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Louisiana's state-run insurer is nearing a mass settlement with homeowners that would be the first deal of its kind in the state since hurricanes Rita and Katrina led to thousands of lawsuits, an attorney for the homeowners said Monday.
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The trial over the drowning of 35 residents was the only prosecution to result from deaths in Hurricane Katrina.
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ST. FRANCISVILLE, Louisiana  - A jury began deliberating on Friday the fate of a couple accused of negligent homicide in the flooding deaths of 35 elderly people at their Louisiana nursing home during Hurricane Katrina.
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CHALMETTE, La., Sept. 20 -- The owners of a nursing home where 35 patients died after Hurricane Katrina were indicted Wednesday on charges of negligent homicide and cruelty to the infirm.
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The Supreme Court refused Tuesday to offer help to Hurricane Katrina victims who want their insurance companies to pay for flood damage to their homes and businesses.