Miscellaneous

• Charles Schwab Investors Suffer Huge Losses

  NBR Law | October 01, 2008 3:25 PM | 2 CommentsNew York City, NY

  The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Charles Schwab is attempting to offer only pennies on the dollar to settle with investors who lost money as a result of their investment in the Charles...

• Morgan Keegan Mutual Fund Losses

  NBR Law | October 01, 2008 3:21 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY

  Individual Investor that Purchased Several Morgan Keegan Income Mutual Funds Filed an Arbitration Claim Against Morgan Keegan, Senior Partners Paul J. Napoli and Marc Jay Bern of the Law Firm Napoli...

• Student Dies of Head Injury; Report Recommends Firing School Officials

  Chrissie Cole | August 30, 2008 2:55 AM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY

  A school accident report recommends firing an administrator and teacher for their lack of response to an incident that claimed the life of a student. Eric Law, 17, died from a head injury he...

• Fraud Possible for 4.2 Million Credit Card Numbers Stolen From Hannaford

  Shannon Weidemann | March 24, 2008 10:21 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY

  Hannaford Brothers Company is an east coast grocery store chain serving millions of customers. Customers are being urged to check with their credit card and debit card companies this week after learning 4.2 Million numbers were stolen in a security breach. The data was not taken from a company database. The supermarket chain, the Hannaford Brothers Company, said the data were exposed when...

• Woman Scalded in Shower Files Lawsuit

  Jenny Albano | March 21, 2008 8:44 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY

  A woman who was scalded from a hotel shower has filed a $100 million negligence lawsuit against the hotel.Ethel Tropez, a Hurricane Katrina refugee from New Orleans who lives in Live Oak, Texas, says in court papers she was badly burned and suffered scarring and disfigurement in the mishap on March 29, 2007, in the Hotel Chandler. The hotel, where deluxe rooms go for up to $510 a night, is on...

• Black Shoppers Discriminated Against at Toys 'R' Us

  Jenny Albano | July 12, 2007 7:58 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY

  Two black shoppers have sued Toys 'R' Us because they think the store discriminated against them. Patricia Drayton and Valerie Kirk were shopping in a the toy store in The Bronx, New York City, when they were stopped when they tried to exit the premises. A security guard asked to see there receipts for the items they had purchased. After refusing to do so, Drayton was made to wait while the...

• Cruises and Viruses

  Jeremy Thurman | December 14, 2006 11:53 AM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY

  More than 100 passengers and crew arrived in Port Everglades on Princess Cruise's Sun Princess showing symptoms of norovirus, a gastrointestinal illness that resembles stomach flu. And 99 passengers and 11 crew members came down with the virus on Royal Caribbean's Freedom of the Seas -- for the second time in a week, said officials with the Miami-based cruise line and federal regulators.One has...

• Dog Bite

  Jeremy Thurman | October 02, 2006 4:27 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY

  Have you ever been bit by a dog. This weekend I was walking in my edition and a stray dog I can be describe as a large mutt came up and started growling at my wife and I. To complicate things further, we had my two and half year old in the jogging stroller. Being the upstanding man I am (facetious), I got between the dog and my wife and child. The dog followed us for about 100 yards before...

• Schumer comes to aid of Ground Zero Workers

  Jeremy Thurman | August 02, 2006 4:17 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY

  U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer just publicly called for an end to the continued actions of the WTC Captive Insurance Company in failing to pay the claims of those who are injured or ill as a result of their work at Ground Zero. He correctly stated that the Company appeared to be more concerned with technical legal arguments, than paying those who are injured from their work at the site. As...

• Cruise Ship Accident Injures More Than a Dozen Passengers

  Staff Writer | July 19, 2006 3:24 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY

  By now, most people have heard about the Crown Princess cruise ship accident that occurred off the coast of Port Canaveral yesterday. Orlando's Local6.com provides first-hand accounts from passengers aboard the ship when it developed steering problems and rolled to one side.Among the more chilling tales recounting the experience was New Jersey resident Dan France:"When I was running down through...