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J&J Settles West Virginia Opioid Suit for $99 Million
Apr 20 2022 // Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $99 million to settle claims by West Virginia that it helped fuel an opioid addiction crisis in the state, removing the company from a trial that began earlier this month. West...
Injured Participant in Las Vegas Trick Loses Lawsuit Appeal
Apr 19 2022 // The Nevada Supreme Court has upheld a jury’s findings that illusionist David Copperfield and the MGM Grand hotel-casino were not financially responsible for a British tourist’s injuries during a signature...
Federal Judge Certifies Class Action vs. PGAC on Auto Policy Fees
Apr 19 2022 // A subsidiary of American Family Insurance now faces a federal class-action lawsuit in Florida, alleging it regularly charged auto policyholders a cancellation fee that was never mentioned in the policy. The size of the...
Online Marketplace Letgo Sued Following Colorado Slayings
Apr 18 2022 // The online marketplace Letgo is facing a wrongful death lawsuit after the parents of five children were fatally shot and robbed while using the app to try to buy a used SUV in suburban Denver in 2020. The lawsuit filed in...
Indiana Family Appeals After Wrongful Death Suit Tossed
Apr 18 2022 // The family of a Black man who was fatally shot by a white Indiana police officer in 2019 is appealing a federal judge’s dismissal of their wrongful death lawsuit. Eric Logan’s relatives argue in their appeal...
Ohio State Settles More Lawsuits Over Sex Abuse by Team Doctor
Apr 18 2022 // Ohio State University will pay $2 million to settle more lawsuits brought by men who said they were sexually abused decades ago by now-deceased team doctor Richard Strauss, increasing the number of survivors who’ve...
Lawsuit Challenges Reinstatement of Philadelphia’s Mask Mandate
Apr 18 2022 // Several businesses and residents have filed suit in state court in Pennsylvania seeking to overturn Philadelphia’s renewed indoor mask mandate scheduled to be enforced beginning Monday in an effort to halt a surge in...
Flight Attendants Settle Discrimination Suit with Colorado-based Frontier
Apr 18 2022 // Frontier Airlines has settled a discrimination lawsuit brought by a group of flight attendants who claimed the carrier discriminated against them during pregnancy and while breastfeeding. Denver-based Frontier agreed to...
Infowars Files for Bankruptcy Amid Sandy Hook Lawsuits
Apr 18 2022 // Companies owned by far-right radio host Alex Jones filed for bankruptcy after being hit by a flurry of lawsuits. Three entities, including his website Infowars, sought Chapter 11 protection in Southern Texas, each with...
Supreme Court Removes an Obstacle to Malicious Prosecution Lawsuits
Apr 18 2022 // The U.S. Supreme Court on April 4 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...
D&O Loss Ratios Unchanged by Rate Hikes; Supply Disruption to Fuel Suits
Apr 18 2022 // Directors and officers liability insurance premium rate hikes have not had the anticipated impacts on loss ratios that carriers had hoped for, AM Best reported in March, citing the impact of social inflation on rising...
Lawsuit Alleges Power Line Sparked Colorado Wildfire
Apr 18 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...
Arkansas Sues Hospital for Failing to Protect Sensitive Patient Information
Apr 14 2022 // Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge announced last month a lawsuit against. Eastern Ozarks Regional Health System for failing to protect sensitive patient information, both person and medical, after the hospital...
North Carolina City Settles Female Firefighter’s Discrimination Lawsuit
Apr 14 2022 // Officials in a North Carolina city have settled a federal discrimination lawsuit with a former female firefighter who said she had endured a hostile work environment in which the fire chief and others inflicted emotional...
Familiar Securities Plaintiff Sues to Stop Berkshire’s $11.6 Billion Deal for Alleghany
Apr 14 2022 // At least one shareholder of Alleghany Corp. is unhappy with the insurer’s agreement to be bought by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway. According to a lawsuit filed April 13 in U.S. District Court for the...
EEOC Sues Paper Company for Disability Discrimination at Texas Location
Apr 13 2022 // International Paper, Co., one of the world’s largest producers of fiber-based products such as packaging materials and fiber pulp, violated federal law by discriminating against an applicant based on his disability,...
Washington Suit Says Women Discriminated Against in Sheriff’s Department
Apr 13 2022 // A detective sergeant is suing the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department in Tacoma, Washington, for alleged discrimination and retaliation against women. Det. Sgt. Jessica Whitehead says she was punished for asking to...
Families of 5 Killed in Indiana FedEx Shooting File Lawsuit
Apr 13 2022 // Relatives of five of the eight people who were shot and killed last year at an Indianapolis FedEx warehouse by a former employee sued the shipping giant and a security company on Monday, accusing them of negligence and...
As Climate Disclosures Toughen, Corporate Laggards May Be Vulnerable to Lawsuits
Apr 13 2022 // A push by Britain to toughen up corporate environmental disclosures will cast a spotlight on climate change dawdlers as campaigners increasingly turn to the courts to force a speedier transition to a low-carbon...
Trial Date Set in Defamation Suit Against Fox News Over U.S. Election Claims
Apr 13 2022 // An April 2023 jury trial has been scheduled in Dominion Voting Systems Inc’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit accusing Fox News of trying to boost its ratings by falsely claiming the voting machine company rigged the...
