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When Charles J. “Chuck” Derenne’s daughter had to introduce her father at career day in kindergarten, he was a little nervous that she’d confuse the group. After all, when you’re a settlement planner, explaining what you do to adults at ...

When Charles J. “Chuck” Derenne entered the field of structured settlement planning in 1988, he was one of the first 100 people in it, and he was affiliated with one of the first three firms to work exclusively with plaintiffs. ...

Pfizer, the world’s biggest drug maker, was sued by Brigham Young University in a dispute over who invented the technology behind the painkiller Celebrex. The university claims that one of its professors, Daniel Simmons, discovered the enzyme that’s linked to ...

Merck & Co. may have to defend eight personal-injury lawsuits at the same trial over the company’s Vioxx painkiller, under a proposal submitted by lawyers for the drug’s users to a New Jersey judge. Superior Court Judge Carol Higbee, who ...

Statute limited action to follow sentencing

BP still faces 31 claims over refinery illnesses

What difference does a year make? Ask a bankruptcy attorney. A year after the implementation of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, bankruptcy filings are still significantly off from what they were before the new law ...

Western Union customers sue Arizona over seized money Western Union Co. customers sued Arizona, claiming the state’s seizure of transferred cash to fight human smuggling is unconstitutional. The seizures, suspended by a judge after being disclosed last month, targeted most ...

Unanimous verdict reached in two hours

Missouri medical malpractice insurers saw a record-breaking year in 2005 with new claims spiking 57 percent, according to a new report issued by the state Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions and Professional Registration. In whole numbers, the state spike translates ...

New York City, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and contractors hired to clear the World Trade Center site after the 2001 terror attacks lost a bid to dismiss a suit by 3,000 workers claiming damages caused ...