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Certain Interested Underwriters at Lloyd's, London v. Stolberg

Construction, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
In a suit by an insurer to obtain a declaration that its policy did not obligate it either to defend a personal injury suit or to indemnify the...

Al Shimari v. CACI International, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Military Law
In suits by former prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, alleging that the defendant prison contractors and certain of their employees were liable...

Bettencourt v. Hennessey Industries, Inc.

Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a suit claiming that the use of the defendant's machines to grind asbestos-containing brake linings resulted in exposure to airborne asbestos...

Beckwith v. Dahl

Injury & Tort Law, Probate, Trusts & Estates
In a suit alleging intentional interference with an expected inheritance (IIEI) and deceit by false promise, the trial court's order sustaining a...

Bready v. CSX Transportation, Inc.

Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation, Workers' Compensation
By memorandum, it is held that the Appellate Division properly granted the defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint in each of...

Bartlett v. Mutual Pharmaceutical Co., Inc.

Drugs & Biotech, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a design defect suit against a drug manufacturer, the jury's award in favor of the plaintiff is affirmed against arguments that: 1) the district...

Matter of Zamora

Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
A claim for workers' compensation benefits is denied, where: 1) the Workers' Compensation Board need not infer, from the finding that a claimant...

Matter of Schmidt

Injury & Tort Law, Workers' Compensation
In a case in which a worker applied for and received workers' compensation benefits at the maximum for hip and back injuries, and also received a...

In re Federal-Mogul Global Inc.

Bankruptcy Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
In chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in which the debtor sought to transfer rights under insurance liability policies to a personal injury trust set...

Casey v. Merck & Co.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Drugs & Biotech, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In litigation involving product liability claims for injuries allegedly caused by a prescription drug manufactured by the defendant, the district...