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Oil & Gas Services Company Sued for Racial Harassment, Retaliation at Texas Site
Oct 11 2021 // Federal equal employment officials say an Oklahoma-based inspection services company subjected black employee to a racially hostile work environment, then fired him for complaining. The lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal...
Climate Class Action Suit to Proceed Against Australia Government
Oct 11 2021 // A class action lawsuit that claims Australia is misleading investors by failing to disclose the impact of climate risk in its bonds will proceed after government lawyers failed to get the case dismissed. The lawsuit may...
Missouri Woman Sues GEICO After Contracting STD During Sex in Car Insured by Company
Oct 11 2021 // A Missouri woman is suing GEICO after contracting a sexually transmitted disease in a car insured by the company. The woman, identified in District Court documents as M.O., had a sexual relationship with the insured, M.B.,...
Louisiana Health System Sued Over Vaccine Mandate
Oct 8 2021 // A small number of employees of Louisiana’s largest health system are suing to block a requirement that they get the COVID-19 vaccine in order to keep their jobs. The lawsuits filed in Louisiana state district courts...
Houston Company to Pay $85K to Settle Federal Disability Discrimination Lawsuit
Oct 8 2021 // Federal workplace officials say a Houston-based electrical supply company unlawfully fired employee one day before his scheduled cancer surgery. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) says Spike Electric...
U.S. Supreme Court Allows Lawsuit Against Troopers to Proceed
Oct 8 2021 // The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by two state police officers accused of failing to protect a woman from a man who went on a deadly rampage, allowing a civil lawsuit to proceed. Troopers were accused of...
Insurers Could Owe $80M to Investors Suing Over 2016 Willis Merger With Towers Watson
Oct 8 2021 // Seven insurers that shared the risk for directors and officers policies sold to Towers Watson may have to pay up to $80 million for settlements with shareholders who cried foul after learning that the brokerage’s...
Risk Scores for Underwriters, Brokers Reveal Companies’ Likelihood of Being Sued
Oct 7 2021 // Last week, Praedicat, a liability risk analytics company, announced that it launched a new Company Risk Score designed to simplify the underwriting of complex emerging risks for liability insurance. The risk score, ranging...
Amazon Sued by Colorado Warehouse Workers Over COVID-19 Screening Pay
Oct 7 2021 // Amazon.com Inc. has been accused of violating Colorado state law by failing to pay warehouse workers for time spent undergoing COVID-19 screenings before clocking in at work. Jennifer Vincenzetti, who worked at two Amazon...
Nigerian Oil Producer Sues Shell for More Than $2B Over Ownership of Wells
Oct 7 2021 // A Nigerian oil producer sued Royal Dutch Shell Plc for more than $2 billion over the ownership of oil wells, intensifying a dispute around an asset sale completed six years ago. Aiteo Eastern E&P Co. Ltd. claims that...
Louisiana Hospital: Judge’s Ivermectin Court Order Invites Lawsuits
Oct 6 2021 // A judge’s order to give the deworming drug ivermectin to a critically ill COVID-19 patient invites more lawsuits demanding unapproved drugs for life-threatening illnesses, a Louisiana hospital says. St. Tammany...
Parents Sue City After Boy’s Death From Brain-Eating Amoeba in Texas
Oct 6 2021 // The parents of a 3-year-old boy who died after being infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba that was found at a Texas splash pad he’d visited sued the city that operated it for negligence. Tariq Williams and Kayla...
California Jury Awards $6.3M to Actress in State Farm Fire Suit
Oct 6 2021 // A federal jury in Los Angeles awarded $6.3 million to actor Shannen Doherty on Monday in a lawsuit alleging that State Farm failed to pay sufficiently for damage to her house in a 2018 California wildfire. The jury found...
Syracuse University Settles $3.7M Gender Pay Lawsuit
Oct 6 2021 // Syracuse University will pay $3.7 million to settle a lawsuit brought by five female faculty members who claimed they were paid less than their male counterparts who held equivalent positions. The settlement entered in...
Washington Man Sues Claiming Officers Raided Wrong Address
Oct 5 2021 // A Lynnwood, Wash., man is suing after police raided his apartment and later determined they had the wrong address. Juan Alberto Castaneda Miranda said agents burst into his apartment in 2018, according to a pair of...
North Carolina Suit Could Signal Change in COVID Claims Disputes
Oct 5 2021 // Since the pandemic began, most of the COVID-19-related business interruption disputes have not gone in favor of the policyholders, especially in federal court. More than 90% of motions to dismiss in federal lawsuits, in...
Cyberattack Crippled Hospital, Led to Baby’s Death, Lawsuit Claims
Oct 5 2021 // Cyberattacks may affect more than organizations’ pocketbooks. They can also hinder a hospital’s care during a crucial moment, a lawsuit filed in Mobile, Alabama, claims. The mother of a child who was born...
Northrop Grumman Knew Chemical Contaminated Missouri Homes: Lawsuit
Oct 1 2021 // Defense company Northrop Grumman knew for more than a decade that chemicals from a site it owns near Missouri’s Springfield-Branson Airport were contaminating groundwater in surrounding property, according to a...
Lawsuit: Oregon Software Company Refused to Hire Man Who is Deaf
Oct 1 2021 // Federal watchdogs are suing Portland, Ore.-based Viewpoint Construction Software and its recruiting firm CampusPoint Corp., alleging they refused to hire a job applicant who is deaf. Viewpoint makes software that...
Hospital Housekeeping Services in Texas Sued for Disability Discrimination
Oct 1 2021 // Federal officials allege in a lawsuit that a Texas-based company unlawfully fired disabled workers because of their inability to pass an essential functions test. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charged in a...
