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One-time accounting giant Arthur Andersen cannot recover $25 million in insurance coverage for its freelance settlement of $231 million with retirees who lost pensions in the firm's demise, a feder
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Atlanta criminal defense lawyer Edward T.M. Garland was so pleased with the referral of a complex federal case to his firm that he cut a $5,000 check to the Florida lawyer who sent the business his
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When FedEx Ground delivery driver Edward Maskowsky hurt his back on the job two years ago, he tried to draw on workers' compensation for help. But following the recent decision by a state workers'
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