Latest Homedepot Headlines
All the headlines from our Homedepot Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Home Depot Appeals to Get Defense Costs From CGL Policies for 2014 Breach
Dec 15 2023 // Think cyber events don’t have long tail? Consider this: Home Depot is still in a legal battle to get $50 million in coverage from two insurers nearly a decade after hackers used point-of-sale machines to hack the...
Texas Court Rejects ‘Fishing Expedition’ Discovery Request to Home Depot
Aug 7 2023 // A Texas appellate court threw out a trial court order that approved a plaintiff’s overly broad discovery request in an employee’s personal injury lawsuit against Home Depot. A panel of the 9th Court of Appeals...
Home Depot Paying $72.5M to Settle California Wage Class Action
Jun 23 2023 // Home Depot HD.N has agreed to pay $72.5 million to end a long-running class-action lawsuit alleging the largest U.S. home improvement retailer underpaid workers in California. The preliminary settlement was filed late...
New Jersey High Court Backs Insurer’s New York Exclusion in Home Depot Injury Case
Aug 16 2022 // Clearly, Admiral Insurance Co. did not want to assume any risk in the New York City area. The insurance policy Admiral issued to Richfield Window Coverings excluded coverage “in any way connected with”...
Fire Destroyed Northern California Home Depot Store
Apr 11 2022 // A weekend fire gutted a Home Depot store in the San Francisco Bay Area, sending up a huge plume of smoke and prompting orders for some nearby residents to shelter in place, authorities said. The five-alarm blaze in South...
Delivery Driver Killed in Drywall Accident at Florida Home Depot
Jan 13 2021 // A delivery driver was killed Sunday night when a load of construction materials fell on him at a Home Depot store in Florida, police said. News outlets report that a load of drywall struck 47-year-old Cyrenus Leroy Amon...
Home Depot to Pay $17.5 Million to Settle With States Over 2014 Data Breach Claims
Nov 25 2020 // Home Depot Inc., the largest U.S. home improvement retailer, on Tuesday reached a $17.5 million settlement to resolve a multistate probe into a 2014 data breach where hackers accessed payment card data belonging to 40...
From Banks to Telecoms, Large Firms Disclose Risks, Opportunities of Climate Change
Jan 22 2019 // Bank of America Corp. worries flooded homeowners will default on their mortgages. The Walt Disney Co. is concerned its theme parks will get too hot for vacationers, while AT&T Inc. fears hurricanes and wildfires may...
Home Depot to Pay $100K to Settle Illinois Disability Discrimination Lawsuit
Aug 23 2018 // Home Depot, the large national home improvement retailer, has agreed to pay a former employee $100,000 and provide other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit, according to the U.S. Equal Employment...
Idaho Suit Accuses Home Depot of Discriminating Against Mom with Newborn
Dec 18 2017 // A former Home Depot assistant supervisor in Idaho has filed a lawsuit against the company alleging sex and pregnancy discrimination. The lawsuit alleges the company violated federal law by refusing to allow the woman...
Idaho Suit Accuses Home Depot of Discriminating Against Mom with Newborn
Dec 4 2017 // A former Home Depot assistant supervisor in southwestern Idaho has filed a lawsuit against the company alleging sex and pregnancy discrimination. The Idaho Statesman reported the lawsuit alleges the company violated...
Home Depot Must Face Negligence Suit for Employee’s Murder: Court
Apr 3 2017 // A federal appeals court on Friday said Home Depot Inc. must face a lawsuit claiming that the retailer’s negligence led to a supervisor’s murdering a pregnant employee by strangulation and raping her...
Massachusetts Man who Defrauded Home Depot Sentenced for Doing it Again
Mar 8 2017 // A Massachusetts man who served time in prison for defrauding Home Depot has been sentenced to more than a year behind bars for doing it again. Robert Dooley pleaded guilty to 10 counts of wire fraud. The Salem News reports...
Woman’s Joplin Tornado-Related Suit Against Home Depot Tossed
Jul 25 2016 // A federal judge has tossed out a woman’s lawsuit against Home Depot over the deaths of her husband and two children who had sought refuge inside the big-box store destroyed during the devastating 2011 tornado in...
Home Depot Settles Data Breach Lawsuit for $19.5M
Mar 9 2016 // Home Depot Inc. agreed to pay at least $19.5 million to compensate U.S. consumers harmed by a 2014 data breach affecting more than 50 million cardholders. The home improvement retailer will set up a $13 million fund to...
Target Settles 2013 Data Breach Claims with Banks
Dec 3 2015 // Target Corp. will pay about $39 million to banks and credit unions to resolve losses from a 2013 holiday- season data breach, as retailers and financial institutions continue to grapple with the costs of major hacker...
Insurance Covers $27M of Home Depot’s Breach Recovery Costs
Nov 6 2014 // Home Depot Inc., which suffered a data breach between April and September, said 53 million e-mail addresses were taken by hackers during the attack, in addition to the 56 million payment cards that were previously...
Home Depot Breach Costs Ohio Credit Unions $1.3M
Nov 4 2014 // The Credit Union National Association says the breach of customer data at Home Depot earlier this year cost Ohio credit unions more than a million dollars. The Columbus Dispatch reports Ohio credit unions spent $1.3...
Home Depot Breach Tied to Bank Account Fraud, Reports WSJ
Sep 23 2014 // Home Depot Inc.’s data breach, which put about 56 million payment cards at risk, has fed fraudulent transactions that in some cases have drained money from customer bank accounts, the Wall Street Journal...
Insurance Will Absorb Some Costs in Home Depot’s Giant Privacy Breach
Sep 19 2014 // Home Depot Inc. Thursday said some 56 million payment cards were likely compromised in a cyberattack at its stores, suggesting the hacking attack at the home improvement chain was larger than last year’s...
