Catherine Wilson

December 27, 2004 |

A Florida appeals court has upheld a $500,000 award to a flight attendant who blamed secondhand smoke on airliners for her bronchitis and sinus trouble -- a decision that could clear the way for damage trials on up to 3,000 similar claims. The ruling for former TWA attendant Lynn French was a test case interpreting a $349 million settlement reached in 1997 between the tobacco industry and nonsmoking attendants.

By Catherine Wilson

2 minute read

September 04, 2003 |

Cigna Corp. will pay about $540 million to settle a lawsuit claiming it routinely shortchanged the nation's doctors on payments for their services. The nation's third-largest health insurer also committed to spending $400 million to change its claims processing procedures, sources said. The agreement, subject to preliminary approval today at federal court in Miami, comes without the endorsement of an Illinois physician who led the lawsuit against Cigna.

By Catherine Wilson

3 minute read

August 16, 2005 |

Jack Abramoff's attorney is trying to distance his client — "a victim" — from fraud charges. He didn't negotiate the deal, he didn't close the deal ... he just signed the deal.

By Carl Jones and Catherine Wilson

3 minute read

August 15, 2005 |

Attorneys for indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff and business partner Adam Kidan insist their clients acted appropriately in their purchase of the troubled SunCruz Casinos in a deal that resulted in fraud and conspiracy charges. Attorney Neal Sonnett, who represents Abramoff, said Friday that the longtime lobbyist who formerly worked for Greenberg Traurig was a "victim." Attorney Martin Jaffe suggested that murdered SunCruz operator Gus Boulis somehow was culpable in the case against Abramoff and Kidan.

By Carl Jones and Catherine Wilson

3 minute read

December 28, 2005 |

Florida developer Don Peebles has been litigating to recover more than $1 million that he lost in the stock market when the dot-com bubble burst five years ago. But he just keeps losing. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta has rejected his attempt to erase an arbitration decision that awarded him nothing on his claim against New York City-based Merrill Lynch over technology stock purchases in 1998 and 1999. He had sought to win a court order for a new arbitration.

By Catherine Wilson

4 minute read

October 12, 2004 |

Bipartisan political pressure is building for the Bush administration to settle a lawsuit by Hungarian Jews who claim the United States plundered family riches that had been seized by the Nazis during World War II. Washington lawyer and Republican insider Fred Fielding is mediating the dispute as a federal judge in Miami considers a renewed Justice Department attempt to scuttle the class action lawsuit.

By Catherine Wilson

3 minute read

December 28, 2005 |

Florida developer Don Peebles has been litigating to recover more than $1 million that he lost in the stock market when the dot-com bubble burst five years ago. But he just keeps losing. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta has rejected his attempt to erase an arbitration decision that awarded him nothing on his claim against New York City-based Merrill Lynch over technology stock purchases in 1998 and 1999. He had sought to win a court order for a new arbitration.

By Catherine Wilson

4 minute read

January 10, 2001 |

Saying blacks were disenfranchised in November by institutionalized racism, civil rights groups sued Florida election officials Wednesday in a bid to overhaul how elections are run. The suit asks a federal judge to get rid of punch-card ballots, fix the state's system for purging voter lists, and monitor Florida elections for 10 years.

By Catherine Wilson

2 minute read

December 28, 2017 | Daily Business Review

It is no longer a question of whether third-party funding will be used in international arbitration, but how we will tailor our processes to address the issues that come into play when third- party funders more frequently finance “bet the company” cross-border disputes and major investor-state claims.

By Don Hayden

6 minute read