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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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April 21, 2008 |

Drivers, insurers colliding in rate suits

The auto insurance industry is skidding through a pileup of lawsuits over how it prices insurance rates. Insurance companies are being sued and scrutinized for using factors including education, occupation, credit scores and lack of prior coverage to set prices � criteria that plaintiffs allege unfairly lead to higher premiums and discriminate against minorities and the poor.
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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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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.

October 01, 2012 |

Deals & Suits

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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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