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New Jersey Law Journal

Insurers Can't Upend $1.2 Mil. Default Despite Absentee Defendant

In a case of a vanishing defendant, a New Jersey appeals court has upheld a $1.2 million default judgment against two insurance companies that dragged their feet in responding to a motor vehicle suit.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Trucker's Facebook Habit Settles Case for Injured Driver

A trucker's snarky Facebook posts, including photos he admitted to snapping from behind the wheel, helped the driver he hit three years ago coax a $1 million settlement from the trucker's company and insurance carrier.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

Translator Fights Back in Dispute Over Toyota Documents

A translator who provided internal Toyota documents to news reporters has objected to the carmaker's requests for sanctions against her for alleged failure to obey a protective order in litigation over sudden acceleration.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

Expert Evidence Properly Excluded in Car-Accident Suit

A plaintiff's expert was properly excluded in a products liability lawsuit against Kia Motors America Inc., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has ruled.
2 minute read

The Recorder

Raceway Ford Cases

By | September 17, 2014
6 minute read

National Law Journal

GM Seeks To Block Deposition of Former In-House Attorney

General Motors Co. is asking a federal judge overseeing more than 100 ignition-switch lawsuits to halt discovery in a Georgia case in which one of its former senior attorneys faces deposition as soon as November.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Judge Rules New Trial for Damages in Email Defamation Case

A heavy-equipment dealer that alleged a competitor had torpedoed its impending exclusivity deal with Hyundai by sending an allegedly defamatory eleventh-hour email to the president of Hyundai Construction Equipment Americas won a new trial on damages in federal court in Pittsburgh.
5 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Woman Injured by Red-Light Runner Gets $672,500

A woman who sustained back injuries and needed surgery after a car ran a red light and crashed into her pickup truck has settled her lawsuit for $672,500.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Clarke v. MMG Ins. Co., PICS Case No. 14-1408 (Pa. Super. Sept. 4, 2014) Jenkins, J. (19 pages).

By | September 16, 2014
Automotive • Policy Language • Household Exclusions • Underinsured Motorist Coverage • Referenced Vehicles
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Supreme Court Considering Bad Faith in Rejected UM Claims

Attorneys representing plaintiffs in uninsured motorist cases told the New Jersey Supreme Court that insurance companies are acting in bad faith in routinely rejecting UM claims and asked that the carriers be punished, primarily by having to pay successful plaintiffs' counsel fees.
7 minute read

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