It is well-settled under Arizona law that life insurance proceeds payable to beneficiaries, other than the deceased debtor, are exempt from claims against the deceased debtor’s estate.That rule has stood formore than sixty years and is supported by statute, A.R.S. S 20-1131(A), and the Arizona case, May v. Ellis, 208 Ariz. 229, 230-31, 92 P.3d …
Lilly, a female supervisor at a Goodyear Tire and Rubber plant in Alabama from 1979 to 1998, held a position typically held by men. See Ledbetter v. The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Inc., 550 U.S. 616, 643,127 S.Ct. 2162, 2178 (2007). Although at first her salary was in line with theirs, her pay later …
$3,843,041.93.This was the initial verdict–including punitive damages–for Lilly Ledbetter in her Title VII lawsuit against former employer, Goodyear Tire & Rubber (See our Winter 2007 Newsletter).Lilly began working for Goodyear in 1979.Her pay was comparable to her male counterparts. When she later received poor performance evaluations because of unlawful gender discrimination, her pay dropped in …
Last December, the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 (the “Act”) was signed into law. In addition to extending the “Bush Income Tax Cuts” of 2001, a part of this new law contains new wealth transfer tax rules for 2010, 2011, and 2012. This article provides a very brief overview …
Too frequently, a successful litigant’s judgment is worth no more than the piece of paper it is written on.Add the tremendous cost of litigation, and a big win may feel like a big loss.The problem is that while the lawsuit is pending the defendant is (i) incurring attorneys fees; (ii) using, encumbering, or losing assets; …