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Recent News About Liberty Mutual

• Ruth mulling over summary judgment motions in Liberty Mutual class action

  By Amelia Flood | Monday, Feb 28, 2011 @ 10:47am

  Schmieder Dueling summary judgment moves in a seven-year old class action suit against Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. are under a Madison County judge's review after a long hearing earlier this month.

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• Ruth to hear summary judgment moves in '04 Liberty Mutual class action Friday

  By Amelia Flood | Friday, Jan 28, 2011 @ 12:21am

  Schmieder A Madison County judge is set to hear a series of summary judgment motions in a 2004 class action over allegedly improper Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) filed against Liberty Mutual Insurance company and Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company.

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• Injured driver seeks extra money in suit

  By Kelly Holleran | Friday, May 14, 2010 @ 7:35am

  A woman who claims she sustained injuries after a driver struck her vehicle has filed suit against her insurance company and the driver, alleging she needs extra money to be compensated for her damages.

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• Liberty Mutual asks for summary judgment in certified class action

  By Steve Korris | Tuesday, Mar 2, 2010 @ 1:42am

  Crowder Class action chiropractors claim Liberty Mutual Insurance should have steered workers compensation patients to them, but according to the insurer that kind of steering would have broken the law.

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• Insured says she was forced to fight to recover settlement

  By Kelly Holleran | Wednesday, Aug 12, 2009 @ 4:52am

  A woman who has already received $100,000 from two insurance companies is seeking even more money, saying she should not have been forced to fight her insurance company for her money.

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• Crowder lost jurisdiction when certifying Lakin class action, Safeco attorney says

  By Steve Korris | Thursday, Jun 4, 2009 @ 1:14pm

  EAST ST. LOUIS – When Madison County Circuit Judge Barbara Crowder certified a LakinChapman class action against insurer Safeco she expanded it so greatly that she surrendered jurisdiction, according to Safeco lawyer Mark Arnold of St. Louis.

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• 14 states, 12 years: Crowder certifies class action against Safeco

  By Steve Korris | Thursday, Apr 9, 2009 @ 4:53am

  Crowder Madison County Circuit Judge Barbara Crowder has certified a class action for LakinChapman law firm over hundreds of thousands of bills that insurer Safeco paid in 14 states over 12 years.

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• Fifth District won't hear Liberty Mutual appeal

  By Steve Korris | Thursday, Oct 2, 2008 @ 1:21pm

  Spomer MOUNT VERNON – The Fifth District Appellate Court won't review a Madison County judge's decision to certify a Lakin Law Firm's class action against Liberty Mutual Insurance.

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• Lakin lawyer says judge applied 'incorrect standard' in dismissing class action

  By Steve Korris | Friday, Sep 5, 2008 @ 4:00am

  U.S. District Judge Phil Gilbert's decision to dismiss a chiropractor's class action against Travelers Insurance means nothing in a chiropractor's class action against Travelers in Madison County, according to Jeff Millar of the Lakin Law Firm.

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• Lakin lawyer can't convince judge to knock rival off suit

  By Steve Korris | Thursday, Aug 21, 2008 @ 12:00pm

  On behalf of the Lakin Law Firm, Charles Chapman accused former Lakin lawyer Richard Burke of incompetence at a hearing but couldn't convince defense attorney Lisa Lilly or Madison County Circuit Judge David Hylla of the same.

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• Is Madison back In competition for 'Hellholes' tag?

  By Ed Murnane | Sunday, Jul 20, 2008 @ 8:19am

  Murnane The American Tort Reform Association has launched its annual survey to determine which legal jurisdictions in the U.S. are considered "judicial hellholes" by the legal community -- or at least that part of the legal community that does not believe that rampant litigation with unlimited awards is the best way to solve disputes.

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• Lakin class actions gather speed en route to certification

  By Steve Korris | Friday, Jul 18, 2008 @ 4:15am

  Tom Lakin While a federal court is waiting to try Tom Lakin on sex and drug crimes, a state court is giving rosy treatment to cases brought by the law firm he founded.

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• Crowder certifies Liberty Mutual class action

  By Steve Korris | Thursday, Jul 10, 2008 @ 2:32pm

  Madison County Circuit Judge Barbara Crowder certified a Lakin Law Firm suit against Liberty Mutual Insurance as a class action June 30, but as the Lakins proceed they face a powerful new adversary.

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• 'Black out' signifies new era of class action privatization

  By Steve Korris | Friday, Jun 27, 2008 @ 7:54am

  In a transcript of a hearing in a multi million dollar civil suit, in a courthouse taxpayers built, black bars cover so many words and numbers it hardly makes sense.

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• Privacy issues put Lakin class actions into twilight zone

  By Steve Korris | Friday, May 2, 2008 @ 1:53am

  Lakin Law Firm class actions against insurers Liberty Mutual and Travelers have drifted to a twilight zone where attorneys know what happens and regular folks don't.

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