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Kansas GOP Lawmakers Want to Limit Coronavirus Lawsuits
May 14 2020 // Republican legislators in Kansas are joining a broader effort to shield doctors, hospitals and businesses from lawsuits stemming from the coronavirus, with business and medical groups pushing them to act quickly. The...
Former Lieutenant with Michigan State Police Settles Whistleblowers’ Suit
May 14 2020 // A retired lieutenant has settled a $2 million whistleblowers’ lawsuit against Michigan, the state police and her former supervisors. Twana Powell’s lawsuit was settled in April, the Detroit Free Press...
Legislation to Limit Car Accident Claims Advances in Louisiana
May 14 2020 // Louisiana’s Republican lawmakers have advanced proposals to limit damage claims against businesses in car wreck lawsuits, pushing ahead with the pre-coronavirus priority as Democrats argued the debate was...
Building Owner, Alarm Companies Sued Over Deadly Las Vegas Fire
May 14 2020 // The owner of a downtown Las Vegas apartment building where six people died in the deadliest residential fire in city history has been hit with another lawsuit seeking damages. This time, several fire alarm manufacturers,...
Family of New Jersey Teacher Killed in School Bus Crash Files Lawsuit
May 14 2020 // The family of a New Jersey teacher who died when the school bus she was riding crashed into a dump truck has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against both drivers, as well as local and state officials. Social studies teacher...
Applied Underwriters’ Centauri Files $30M ‘Poaching’ Suit Against Wellington Insurance
May 14 2020 // A Florida-based managing general agency has filed a $30 million poaching lawsuit against three former executives and the agency they jumped to while it was in the process of being acquired. Centauri Specialty Insurance...
More Restrictions Eased in Georgia; AG Asks Congress for Business Lawsuit Protections
May 14 2020 // Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp eased a few restrictions Tuesday on businesses and child care operations, but said he was keeping most current rules until at least the end of May. The Republican governor reiterated that he...
WeWork Directors Move to Protect Right to Sue Owner SoftBank Over Nixed Tender Offer
May 13 2020 // A special committee of WeWork board members filed a motion in Delaware on Monday to prevent it from being disbanded, as it pursues legal action against majority owner SoftBank Group Corp. over an abandoned $3 billion...
Debate Over Business Liability in Pandemic Turns to OSHA Regulation, CDC Guidelines
May 13 2020 // Congressional Republicans have made liability protection for employers a nonnegotiable demand in any new coronavirus stimulus, but Senator Lindsey Graham, an ally of President Donald Trump, says that regulators have a role...
Parents Sue Delaware Child Care Facility Where Daughter Was Killed
May 13 2020 // The parents of an infant who was killed at a Delaware child care facility have filed suit against the facility as well as a former employee who was charged in the baby’s death. The News Journal of Wilmington reported...
California Retailer Sues Travelers for Denied COVID-19 Business Interruption Claims
May 12 2020 // San Francisco-based children’s clothing boutique Mudpie Inc. has filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of California-based retail stores against an insurance provider, saying the small businesses were wrongfully...
New Mexico Man’s Body Mutilated to Fit in Coffin, Lawsuit Charges
May 12 2020 // A New Mexico funeral home broke the legs of the body of a tall man so he could fit into a smaller coffin, a new lawsuit said. The family of Dakota Powell filed last week a lawsuit in state district court against French...
REUTERS SPECIAL REPORT on Police Immunity: For Cops Who Kill, Special Supreme Court Protection
May 12 2020 // MADILL, Oklahoma — Sick with pneumonia, agitated and confused, Johnny Leija refused to return to his hospital room. Moments later, with three police officers pinning him on the floor, Leija was dead at age 34. Staff at...
Lawsuit Alleging Anti-Conservative Bias at Google Ends Quietly
May 12 2020 // A lawsuit that made a big bang in Silicon Valley two years ago with allegations of mistreatment of politically conservative tech workers came to a quiet end last week. Former Google engineer James Damore and three other...
REUTERS SPECIAL REPORT: A United Front Takes Aim at Police Immunity From Lawsuits
May 11 2020 // The diverse opponents of qualified immunity have thrown their weight behind at least five appeals now awaiting the Supreme Court’s attention, each considered a potential means of removing or softening the...
U.S. Businesses, Patients Sue China Seeking Damages From Coronavirus Outbreak
May 11 2020 // Before the coronavirus outbreak, Saundra Andringa-Meuer was a healthy 61-year-old mother of six who never smoked or drank alcohol. Then she became seriously ill with the disease after traveling from her Wisconsin home to...
New Mexico Man Sues After Being Injured in Chase, Crash
May 11 2020 // A man has sued a New Mexico State Police officer who crashed into his vehicle in January 2019 while chasing a truck near Espanola. Rudy Vialpando, 62, said he suffered spinal fractures and injuries to his ribs and right...
Companies Need Safety From Lawsuits If They Protect Workers: Opinion
May 11 2020 // States that are reopening their economies even as cases of Covid-19 are still rising are threatening their own residents and the whole country. But they are also running into two challenges that all states will face:...
Meat Giant Sued for Worker’s Covid-19 Death in Philadelphia
May 11 2020 // The family of a beef plant worker who died because of the coronavirus has brought a wrongful death lawsuit in a Philadelphia court against JBS SA, the world’s biggest meat company. Ferdinand Benjamin filed the suit...
Alabama Enacts Pandemic Lawsuit Protection for Health Care Entities, Businesses
May 11 2020 // New legal protections are being extended to help shield businesses from “frivolous” lawsuits linked to the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Kay Ivey said Friday. An order issued by Ivey would protect health care...
