Latest Homedepot Headlines

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Lawsuit Filed Against Home Depot Over Data Breach

Sep 10 2014 // Home improvement retailer Home Depot Inc. has been sued over data breach by a customer, saying the company failed to properly safeguard customer data from hackers, a lawsuit filed in a Chicago federal court showed on...

Home Depot Confirms Its Payment Systems Were Hacked

Sep 9 2014 // Home Depot Inc. confirmed on Monday its payment security systems have been breached, a data theft analysts warn could rival Target Corp.’s massive breach last year. Home Depot said the data theft could impact its...

Home Depot Sued Over Joplin, Missouri, Tornado Deaths

Aug 6 2014 // A woman whose husband and two children were among eight people killed while taking cover in a Home Depot during the 2011 Joplin, Mo., tornado contends in a wrongful death lawsuit that the building was negligently...

Louisiana Citizens Insurance Initiates Home Depot Claims Program

May 7 2014 // Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. will connect its policyholders with experienced, licensed and insured local contractors in a program with Home Depot. The state’s property insurer of last resort says the...

Georgia Home Depot Customer Injured By Forklift Awarded $1.5 Million

Jul 2 2009 // A Georgia jury has awarded a Home Depot customer and his wife $1.5 million in a lawsuit stemming from a forklift accident at a store. The complaint by 58-year-old Larry Reece says a pallet of plywood fell on him from a...

Delaware Man Gets $2.9M for Injuries at Home Depot

Jan 23 2009 // A jury in Wilmington, Delaware has awarded $2.9 million to a self-employed contractor who was injured at a Home Depot store when a stack of 18 wooden doors fell from a shelf above him. Thirty-two-year-old Ronald Payne was...

It Figures

Nov 18 2007 // 17.75% The voluntary market rate cut in workers’ compensation ordered by Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn who also ordered a 22 percent cut for the state’s assigned risk pool. He said these are the...

Home Depot, Conn. Insulation Firm Settle R.I. Nightclub Fire Claims

Nov 2 2007 // Home Depot Inc. and a Connecticut insulation company have tentatively agreed to a $5 million settlement in lawsuits brought by survivors of a 2003 Rhode Island nightclub fire and relatives of the 100 people killed, a...

Feds Extend Moratorium on Nonfinancial Firms’ Entry into Banking

Feb 2 2007 // The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on Wednesday extended for one year a moratorium on considering nonfinancial companies’ applications to establish or acquire banks. The decision puts on hold pending applications...

R.I. Nightclub Fire Plaintiffs Add Home Depot, State, Band as Defendants

Feb 16 2006 // Nearly 270 people affected by Rhode Island’s deadliest nightclub fire added several more defendants to their lawsuit this week, including members of the band whose pyrotechnics sparked the blaze and manufacturers of...

MetLife Auto & Home in Alliance with Home Depot

Mar 25 2004 // MetLife Auto & Home and The Home Depot announce that they will be joining forces to provide repair materials and installation services for MetLife Auto & Home customers. This enhanced service will be available...

Allstate, Home Depot Announce Alliance

May 24 2000 // An alliance between Home Depot and Allstate Insurance Co. has the home improvement retailer supplying materials for home repairs to Allstate customers. The alliance started in January, but was not announced until this...