Litigation Funds

Tuesday, 17 September 2024

Latest News for: Litigation funds

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CHRIS HUNSINGER: Urgent need to fix the broken Road Accident Fund

Business Day 17 Sep 2024

This means only 3% of claims received by the RAF were eligible to be assessed and finalised by the fund within the set 120 days ... Litigation creates enormous additional costs for the RAF ... In 2008 the fund was able to process 120 claims per employee.

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Fujitsu loses £50m in sales after Post Office scandal furore

Computer Weekly 17 Sep 2024

Group litigation against Post Office being prepared in Horizon dispute ... Post Office faces group litigation over Horizon IT as subpostmasters fund class action ... 1,000 subpostmasters apply to join IT-related group litigation against Post Office.

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Bryant Park Capital Secures $100 Million in Capital for Deminor

ACCESSWIRE 16 Sep 2024

... cycles as a leading player in the litigation funding sector, and this capital raise will provide an opportunity to significantly expand the operating leverage of the Deminor platform internationally."

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Broward Sierra Group gives endorsements careful consideration | Opinion

Sun Sentinel 15 Sep 2024

An attempt to scuttle the development would have resulted in protracted, taxpayer-funded litigation, because the proposed project fell within the parameters of the dense zoning as she left it.

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Venture Capital Fund Shuts Down DEI Grant Program After Lawsuit

Hot Air 14 Sep 2024

Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Florida will decide whether to block the Atlanta-based Fearless Fund from awarding $20,000 grants to Black female-owned businesses while the case is litigated in trial court.

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She 'sarcastically' said Obama should be killed. Now she wants to control kids' education.

The Fayetteville Observer 14 Sep 2024

Here's what we know now about election polling in 2024 ... 6, 2021 ... Spoiler alert ... 6, 2021 ... To me, this is why it's important that the Leandro Plan, a multibillion dollar school funding program that has been stuck in litigation for 30 years, be implemented.

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Police to soon launch digital wireless tech in Tvm, Kochi

The Times of India 13 Sep 2024

This was planned as the pilot programme in Thrissur culminated in litigation. The funds sanctioned for the Thrissur project have now been rerouted.In state home department's latest directive, govt has ...

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Angela Deem has ‘no money’ because Michael drained her bank accounts: ‘He took it all’

Monsters & Critics 13 Sep 2024

The Nigerian native also requested that Angela pay his “attorney’s fees and costs of litigation incurred in this proceeding,” although he raised funds on GoFundMe to cover his legal fees.

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NW business briefs: Hunter Price; Robert Scott; NWLC; Regenda Group; Octopus Energy; Optimise; Sci-Tech Daresbury

The Business Desk 13 Sep 2024

Optimise, the insolvency litigation and financing business launched by law firm Provenio Litigation earlier this year, is now funding £10m-worth of live claims.

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Former Oregon foster youth share harrowing stories in settlement hearing

The Oregonian 13 Sep 2024

But first she strongly condemned the time and money wasted in a drawn-out case that she said was “over-lawyered beyond belief.” ... Oregon Public Broadcasting reported that the state spent upwards of $18 million in taxpayer funds to litigate the case.

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Commentary: The big business of lawsuits is harming American health

Grand Forks Herald 12 Sep 2024

... themselves into the legal system by financially backing civil lawsuits in return for a significant share of any settlement or court award through a process known as third-party litigation funding.

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The Daily Money: Dispatches from the DEI wars

Usatoday 12 Sep 2024

Court of Appeals blocked Fearless Fund from awarding $20,000 grants to businesses owned by Black women while the case was litigated, siding with anti-affirmative action activist Edward Blum, who said the grant program was discriminatory.

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Activist Shareholder Blasts Dye & Durham M&A Strategy

Live Mint 12 Sep 2024

... that the company’s directors were not showing concern about their personal reputation and liability as they set more funding aside for acquisitions and “frivolous litigation” against shareholders.

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Tiny Oregon school district slated to lose timber revenues spending big on legal challenge

The Oregonian 12 Sep 2024

For decades, the district has used logging revenue and not state money to fund its school budget, pumping it up beyond what other Oregon districts get from the state on a per-pupil basis ... funding.

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DeSantis puts state forces behind Amendment 4 abortion fight

Tampa Bay Times 12 Sep 2024

... rewrite a financial impact statement for the proposed constitutional amendment, questioning whether the amendment would lead to state-funded abortions and warning of additional costs for litigation.