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A class action lawsuit has been filed in the Eastern District Court of Texas against Offshore Specialty Fabricators, Inc. for violations of the Racketeering Act (RICO), among other things. The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly referred to as "RICO", addresses the infiltration of legitimate businesses by organized crime. Class members seek a remedy for defendants' wrongful conduct, which allegedly depress wages and reduce benefits paid or provided by defendants to US citizens or resident aliens.

Thousands of Rhode Islanders will be getting checks from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island. That’s after Blue Cross, the state’s largest health insurer, agreed on July 21, 2005 to settle two class-action lawsuits. Under the settlement approved Friday, Blue Cross has agreed to pay 17-point-five (m) million dollars to settle the federal and state suits. The money will go to about 116-thousand current and former Blue Cross customers.

A physician education company filed a lawsuit against the second-largest commercial property owner in Dallas. The lawsuit alleges negligence in handling confidential private information and breach of contract.

The family of a 21 year old Michigan man, filed a lawsuit in Miami federal court after their son died after returning from a Carribean Carnival Cruise. The lawsuit seeks to recover $20 million on behalf of passengers who became ill on a January 2005 voyage of the Carnival Miracle.

Trusts must be administered exactly as the documents that create them specify. The parties have reached a tentative $33 million settlement in a class action filed against Bank of America on behalf of trust beneficiaries who allege that Bank of America failed to add it properly reimburse them after it discovered that its subsidiary Security Pacific had overcharged them. Persons eligible to take part in the settlement should contact the attorneys for the class for more information.

A Burlington County Superior Court judge has granted class-action status to cases filed in connection with the July 2004 flood in Burlington County. Judge Harold B. Wells found that the large number of claims, similarity of damages, and allegations against dam owners met the criteria for consolidating the cases as a class action.

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