Joel Silver, his company Silver Pictures, and its employee Martin Herold have all been named in a lawsuit regarding the death of Silver’s former personal assistant, Carmel Musgrove. The suit, filed by Musgrove’s estate and parents, is suing all three parties for wrongful death. Musgrove was found dead at age 28 on a beach in Bora Bora during a star-studded trip to the island hot spot in 2015.
An Illinois trio has filed a class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court against a Plains All American Pipeline for a 2015 oil spill that contaminated land near HIghalnd Ill. Kevin Nodine, Cheryl Morr and David Medlock filed the lawsuit on Feb. 15 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois through The Driscoll Firm in St. Louis. The lawsuit alleges violation of the Oil …
German behemoth Deutsche Bank agreed last spring to assist plaintiffs and regulators by ratting out their co-conspirator banks in a wide ranging scheme to rig prices and cheat clients. They cut a deal to avoid even larger monetary damages and criminal prosecution. Executives there agreed to pay nearly $100 million to settle their legal troubles and share information.
Swiss Bank UBS might not be off the hook and could be back in court with four other new banks in an ever-evolving lawsuit that alleges manipulation of gold and silver prices during the daily fix. A report filed in U.S. District Court in New York, Wednesday, provided evidence of collusion among the fixing banks: The Bank of Nova Scotia, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Societe …
Canadian gold miner Rusoro Mining Ltd. (TSXV: RML) has been awarded more than $1 billion after a World Bank tribunal said Venezuela unlawfully seized the company’s gold mine, according to news reports and a news release from Rusoro. The company says it was awarded damages of $967.77 million plus interest, taking the total above $1.2 billion. Rusoro says it filed an arbitration request in July …
A long shot federal class-action lawsuit filed by long-time critics of the Dulles Toll Road argues the tolls are unconstitutional and the agency that runs the road does not have the proper authority to exist. The complaint filed in federal court in Washington earlier this month argues that the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, which also runs Reagan National Airport and …