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Tourists from China Sue After Deadly Utah Tour Bus Crash
Sep 17 2021 // The state of Utah didn’t do enough to make sure a remote highway was safe before a tour bus crashed, killing four people from China and injuring two dozen more in 2019, family and survivors said in a lawsuit filed...
Termination Lawsuit in Washington County Settles for $1.4M
Sep 17 2021 // The Clark County Council in Washington has agreed to pay Don Benton and two other former county employees $1.4 million less than four months after a jury awarded the trio $693,998 in a wrongful termination lawsuit. The...
Louisiana Restaurant Sued for Pregnancy Discrimination
Sep 16 2021 // Federal authorities have sued a Louisiana restaurant for allegedly violating federal law against pregnancy discrimination in hiring. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit that...
EEOC Sues Georgia Facility Over Denying Employee’s Request for Remote Work
Sep 16 2021 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit that ISS Facility Services, Inc., a workplace experience and facility management company, unlawfully denied its employee’s reasonable...
Washington Troopers, Workers File Suit over Vaccine Mandate
Sep 15 2021 // Washington state troopers, prison correctional officers, ferry workers and other public sector employees have filed a lawsuit to try to overturn Gov. Jay Inslee’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The Northwest News Network...
Washington Juvenile Facility Sex Abuse Suit Settled for $2.1M
Sep 13 2021 // The state of Washington has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by 10 people who said they were sexually abused at a juvenile rehabilitation facility when they were teenagers. One of the plaintiffs lives in Pierce County,...
Family of Man Killed During Oregon Protests Files Suit
Sep 13 2021 // The estate of a man fatally shot in downtown Portland, Ore., after a pro-Trump car rally last year is suing the city, the mayor and the county district attorney, saying their negligence contributed to his violent...
Chicago-Area Deputy Awarded $7.5M in Spinal Injury Lawsuit
Sep 13 2021 // A federal jury has awarded $7.5 million in damages to a suburban Chicago sheriff’s deputy who sued after he was severely injured during a 2014 training exercise. The (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald reported that the...
Germany’s Allianz Facing U.S. Justice Probe of Fund Managers, Investors’ $6B Lawsuit
Sep 10 2021 // FRANKFURT/WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into German insurer Allianz is looking at possible misconduct by fund managers and misrepresentation of risk to investors, three people with...
Dell to Pay $75K to Settle Federal Equal Pay Lawsuit
Sep 10 2021 // Federal employment officials say Texas-based Dell Inc. has agreed to settle a lawsuit alleging the company paid a female IT systems analyst less than male coworker for the same work. U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
Minnesota Company to Pay $65K to Settle Religious Discrimination Lawsuit
Sep 9 2021 // Federal employment officials say a Minnesota debt collector has settled a lawsuit alleging the company fired Christian employee after he refused to be fingerprinted due to his religious beliefs. AscensionPoint Recovery...
Tyson, Perdue to Pay $35M to Settle Chicken Farmers’ Price Fixing Suit
Sep 7 2021 // Two of the industry’s biggest poultry companies have agreed to pay nearly $35 million to settle a lawsuit that accused them and several other firms of conspiring to dominate the industry and fix the prices paid to...
Utah Lawsuit Says Paraplegic Man’s Foot ‘Shredded’ on Rollercoaster
Sep 7 2021 // A paraplegic man who was injured on a roller coaster is now suing a Utah amusement park, saying his paralyzed leg wasn’t properly secured while he was on the ride and his foot was shredded. The Salt Lake Tribune...
Family Sues Duke Energy over North Carolina Tubing Accident that Killed 5
Sep 7 2021 // A family that lost five members in a tubing accident on a North Carolina river is suing Duke Energy, saying the utility failed to adequately warn people that its dam poses life-threatening risks. Their lawsuit, filed in...
Michigan Dairy Processor Sued for Disability Discrimination
Sep 3 2021 // Federal employment officials charged a dairy processor for allegedly firing an employee rather than accommodate her disability at a Michigan facility. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) cited Agropur...
Police Chief in Hawaii Sued for Racial Discrimination
Sep 3 2021 // A police captain on the Hawaii island of Kauai has filed a lawsuit alleging his police chief discriminated against him for being Japanese American, including an episode when the chief squinted his eyes, bowed repeatedly...
Arizona High Court Rejects Major Part of Suit Against CVS
Sep 3 2021 // An Arizona Supreme Court ruling rejects a major part of a Tucson hospital’s lawsuit accusing a pharmacy chain of negligence and seeking compensation for care provided to opioid-addicted patients. The justices ruled...
Judge Says Apple Must Face Siri Privacy Lawsuit
Sep 3 2021 // A federal judge on Thursday said Apple Inc. must face nearly all of a proposed class action lawsuit claiming that its voice-activated Siri assistant violates users’ privacy. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White said the...
Texas Hospital to Pay $3.3M to Settle Claims-Related Whistleblower Suit
Sep 2 2021 // John Peter Smith Hospital (JPS) in Tarrant County, Texas, will pay more than $3.3 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by upcoding certain claims submitted to federal healthcare programs, the...
SEC Sues Founder of Closed BitConnect Exchange Alleging $2B Fraud Scheme
Sep 2 2021 // The top U.S. securities regulator on Wednesday sued the founder of the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange platform BitConnect over his alleged role in fraudulently raising about $2 billion from retail investors. Expanding...
