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October 28, 1999 |

An Insurance Expert Is Bounced

Calling it "one of the most egregious cases of providing witness-for-hire testimony that I've ever seen," a U.S. magistrate judge in Michigan sharply criticized plaintiffs' lawyers for orchestrating an expert's testimony. According to the judge's ruling, the plaintiffs' lawyers provided the language in an expert's report filed in a so-called vanishing premiums case involving Jackson National Life Insurance Co.
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June 25, 2012 |

Greenberg agrees to $61M deal in Ponzi suit

Greenberg Traurig and Quarles & Brady have agreed to fork over a combined $87.5 million to resolve claims that they failed to put the brakes on a $900 million Ponzi scheme carried out by two mortgage-industry clients.
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June 25, 2012 |

Greenberg Traurig to shell out $61 million to exit Ponzi class action

Greenberg Traurig has agreed to pay $61 million to settle a class action suit filed by investors who claimed they were victimized by a Ponzi scheme involving one of the firm's real estate clients.
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July 21, 2009 |

Aetna Recoils at Five-Headed Plaintiffs' Leadership of Class-Action Suit

Five competing plaintiffs' firms in a class action for millions of Aetna insureds and doctors have agreed to share the role of interim class counsel rather than pick one to take the lead. And Aetna doesn't like it.
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April 01, 2008 |

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April 01, 2008 |

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Judge OKs Class Action Against Greenberg Traurig and Quarles & Brady for Roles in Alleged Ponzi Scheme
Publication Date: 2012-03-21
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Both firms face class claims for primary liability and aiding and abetting an alleged $900 million fraud by Mortgages Ltd. and another company. A Quarles & Brady partner has acknowledged to the SEC that he was concerned his client's actions had "a Ponzi scheme feel," according to the plaintiffs.

April 02, 2007 |

VerdictSearch

Allstate agreed to change policies and pay discrimination victims. Jury found against plaintiff who identified wrong driver. Man claimed assault by store personnel and customer. Man hit by car while walking on road received $16,223. Housekeeper did not recover damages for fall in employers' home.
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April 30, 2003 |

MetLife Settlement of Policyholders' Bias Suit Approved

A federal judge in New York has approved the settlement of a class action that charged Metropolitan Life Insurance with systematic discrimination against black and other non-white policyholders. The deal calls for MetLife to pay no less than $52 million and no more than $90 million. The case was unusual in that it included claims that MetLife sold substandard policies to non-whites, in some cases over a century ago.
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