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Louisiana Church Sues Insurer For Alleged Inadequate Storm Damage Coverage
Apr 6 2022 // A Louisiana church has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that its insurer failed to adequately cover millions of dollars in property damage resulting from two devastating weather events last year, including Hurricane...
Indiana Senior Living Facility to Settle Disability Discrimination Suit
Apr 6 2022 // Heart of CarDon, a Bloomington, Indiana-based senior living community, will pay $115,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
California May Empower Citizens to Sue Over Illegal Firearms
Apr 6 2022 // For all California’s nation-leading attempts to regulate firearms, the state has not found a way to deter those happy to skirt the laws with stolen or homemade and increasingly prevalent “ghost” guns. In...
Supreme Court Removes an Obstacle to Malicious Prosecution Lawsuits
Apr 6 2022 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday eliminated one of the hurdles facing individuals looking to sue for being falsely accused of crimes. In Thompson v. Clark, a majority (6-3) of the high court not only acknowledged a claim...
Lawsuit Settled in Texas Child’s Brain-Eating Amoeba Death
Apr 5 2022 // A Texas city has settled a lawsuit with the parents of a 3-year-old boy who died last September after being infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba that was found at a splash pad he’d visited. The Arlington City...
Lawsuit Alleges Power Line Sparked Colorado Wildfire
Apr 5 2022 // The first lawsuit filed in connection with a wildfire that destroyed over 1,000 homes and other buildings in suburban Denver claims that sparks from a power line started December’s blaze. The lawsuit filed against...
$14M Jury Award for Protesters Comes As Other Cities Face Similar Policing Lawsuits
Apr 5 2022 // A federal jury’s $14 million award to Denver protesters hit with pepper balls and a bag filled with lead during 2020 demonstrations over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis could resonate nationwide as...
Lawsuit Over Iowa Beef Farm in Trout Stream Watershed May Proceed
Apr 5 2022 // A state court judge said environmental groups may proceed with a lawsuit seeking to halt expansion of a cattle farm in northeast Iowa near a prized trout stream. Judge Michael Huppert on Monday ruled against the Iowa...
Credit Suisse Warns Greensill Litigation Against Insurers, Debtors May Take 5 Years
Apr 4 2022 // Credit Suisse said on Monday that litigation related to Greensill supply chain finance funds (SCFF) could take around five years and warned that some investors would not be able to recover their money. Credit Suisse racked...
Lawsuit Settled in Texas Child’s Brain-Eating Amoeba Death
Apr 4 2022 // A Texas city has settled a lawsuit with the parents of a 3-year-old boy who died last September after being infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba that was found at a splash pad he’d visited. The Arlington City...
Nationwide Doesn’t Have to Defend in Suit Against Alabama Child Molester
Apr 4 2022 // David Barrow consoles a soccer player after a loss at the state championship in 2011.(AP Photo/The Huntsville Times, Eric Schultz) Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. does not have to defend its insured, an Alabama man who...
Court Allows Arkansas Malpractice Claim to Proceed Before Underlying Suit is Resolved
Apr 4 2022 // Legal malpractice claims usually aren’t filed until after somebody loses a lawsuit. But what happens when the underlying dispute hasn’t been resolved, but a litigant has to hire new counsel to clean up mistakes...
Sixth Circuit Sides With Distributor in Ohio Opioid Lawsuit Jurisdiction Dispute
Apr 2 2022 // An Ohio district court correctly granted a pharmaceutical distributor’s motion to remand to state court a case regarding whether its insurer must provide defense in ongoing opioid litigation, the U.S. Court of...
Supreme Court Cast Doubt on Texas Immunity Claim in Vet’s Suit
Apr 1 2022 // The Supreme Court on Tuesday cast doubt on Texas’ claim that it can’t be sued by a former state trooper who says he was forced out of his job when he returned from Army service in Iraq. The justices heard...
Ballplayer Files Defamation Suit Against The Athletic in California
Apr 1 2022 // Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer sued The Athletic and former reporter Molly Knight, accusing them of “creating and spreading the false narrative” that he had fractured a woman’s skull during a...
Parents of Teen Shot on Bridge Sue Pennsylvania State Police, District Attorney
Apr 1 2022 // The parents of a 19-year-old man who was killed by state troopers on an overpass in the Pocono Mountains filed a wrongful-death suit Wednesday, saying video that Pennsylvania State Police initially tried to keep secret...
FTC Sues Intuit to Stop ‘Bait-and-Switch’ TurboTax Ads
Mar 31 2022 // The Federal Trade Commission is suing TurboTax maker Intuit, saying its ads for “free” tax filing misled consumers. Intuit says it will fight the suit. The consumer protection agency said Tuesday that millions...
Grubhub, Uber Eats, Postmates Must Face Diners’ Lawsuit Over U.S. Restaurant Prices
Mar 31 2022 // A U.S. judge on Wednesday said Grubhub, Uber Eats and Postmates must face an antitrust lawsuit by diners who accused them of driving up menu prices by exploiting their dominance in meal deliveries during the COVID-19...
Texas High Court: Wrongful Death Suit Against Gentlemen’s Club in Hands of Arbitrator
Mar 31 2022 // Three terms in a written contract between a gentlemen’s club and a deceased employee are not so unclear as to nullify the contract’s arbitration agreement, the Texas Supreme Court ruled in a March 18 per curiam...
Illinois Court: Insurer Must Defend IT Company in BIPA Suits
Mar 30 2022 // An insurer must defend an information technology company facing a pair of Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) lawsuits, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois said in a March 30 ruling. In...
