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4/4/2006 10:52:00 AM | Flirting with disaster 
=(0) Many companies are resorting to "aggressive improvisation" to bring their companies back to operations in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. In fact, with smart disaster recovery process in place, tactics like this can be completely avoided. Disaster recovery, or DR testing and procedures can save any company thousands of dollars by planning for Hurric...
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4/4/2006 1:14:00 AM | Foti to probe Red Cross fraud =(0) After claims of fraud and theft against several volunteers with the American Red Cross Hurrican Katrina relief effort, Attorney General Charles Foti Jr. has been called to investigate. Evidence suggests that several red cross volunteers were fraudulently selling supplies for profit..........
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3/30/2006 2:11:00 PM | Red Cross turns Katrina fraud findings over to FBI =(0) An internal investigation headed by the Red Cross into its Hurricane Katrina relief efforts has yielded information about Red Cross supplies being illegally stockpiled and sold and Red Cross kitchens ordering uneeded supplies. The investigation is now moving forward under the Senate Finance Committee and the FBI....
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3/28/2006 2:56:00 PM | Group plans on suing Carnival Cruise Lines =(0) Three couples ejected from a Carnival Cruise ship in the Bahamas plan to sue the cruise line. The couples were asked to leave the ship, according to Carnival Cruise Line, because they were verbally abusive and threatening to the staff of the ship. After a seven hour departure delay caused the group to lose the opportunity and the deposit on a sched...
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3/25/2006 9:22:00 AM | College Board Admits Hundreds of Grading Errors on SAT Exam =(0) Thousands of SAT tests taken in October 2005 were incorrectly graded, according to the College Board which administers the tests. While some (about 600) received higher grades than they should have, many more (over 4400) were downgraded. This is expected to have a devastating effect on many students, who may be denied entry to the school of their c...
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3/25/2006 6:13:00 AM | Allstate loses Katrina ruling =(0) An Allstate Insurance unit has lost a ruling to dismiss the lawsuit brought by several victims of Hurricane Katrina who allege that their insurance claims were denied in bad faith. Although merely a ruling on a specific part of the case, this may be a harbinger of things to come in the cases of many Hurricane Katrina victims who have water damage t...
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3/23/2006 2:36:00 PM | Baby Gender Mentor: A Suit Is Born =(0) Acu-Gen has been marketing a Baby Gender Mentor product where you are supposedly able to identify the gender of your baby as early as five weeks. A class action lawsuit was recently filed against the company because the testing appears to be inaccurate as many women have had ultrasounds confirming their baby to be the opposite sex of that identifie...
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3/22/2006 9:08:00 AM | Suit says girl assaulted on cruise =(0) Disney Cruise Lines faces a lawsuit by the parents of a young girl allegedly sexually assaulted by a crew member. The assaulted supposedly took place aboard the Disney Wonder in October. Both the girl and her parents boarded the ship in Port Canaveral to set sail to the Bahamas. Court papers report that the crew member not only sexually assaulted ...
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3/20/2006 4:43:00 AM | BEHIND THE LAWSUITS =(0) When employees or guests sue the cruise ship industry, they typically use lawyers who are well versed in maritime law and other statutes that are applicaple to cruise ship lawsuits. The Jones Act and the Death on the High Seas act are both crucial in any cruise ship litigation and highlight the necessity of choosing a qualified attorney who underst...
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3/20/2006 3:07:00 AM | Miami center for litigation against cruise lines =(0) Cruise ship lawsuits are becoming more and more common with over 2,000 lawsuits having been filed in South Florida in the last five years. Interestingly, most of these lawsuits have been filed by a small group of attorneys who are focusing in on cruise ship litigation. These cruise ship lawyers represent both employees and guests of the cruise line...
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3/14/2006 11:19:00 PM | Case Involving Errors in Teacher Test Is Settled =(0) A class action lawsuit was filed by hundreds of teachers who received incorrect test scored on their teacher licensing exams from Educational Testing Servce (ETS). ETS has now agreed to pay over $11 million in damages to settle the case, compensating individuals who lost job opportunities, potential pay and sufered after receiving the bad test scor...
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3/7/2006 2:25:00 PM | Cruise ship passengers consider class action =(0) After being forced to bypass two ports due to mechanical failure, passengers on the P&O Cruise Line out of Malacca Straights. While P&O offered passangers $350.00 for their inconvenience, the sheer cost of the cruise makes that a token gesture. Factioing in the time lost for vacationers and the possibility of this being people's yearly vacation th...
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3/1/2006 11:42:00 AM | Man sues former employer over drug test =(0) A West Virginia man is suing his former employer for the method by which he was randomly drug tested and for what he claims was a false postive drug test result. James Cottle cooperated in a mandatory drug test prior to his employment with S.W. Jack Drilling Company and was asked to participate in another, random drug test at a job site, that was p...
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