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Companies Face Class Action Suit Over Sugar Field Burns Plaguing Poor Florida Towns
Dec 5 2019 // For residents of the Glades, a string of poor, predominantly African American rural towns dotting the southern shore of Florida’s Lake Okeechobee, the beginning of the annual sugar cane harvest in October means the...
Mississippi Real Estate Firm Sued by 9 HOAs Over Missing Funds
Dec 5 2019 // A ninth homeowner’s association is suing a Mississippi real estate company over missing funds. The Clarion Ledger reports the lawsuits filed against Ridgway Lane & Associates allege the company stole more than...
Key Local Governments Opt Out of Big Opioid Class Action to Pursue Own Claims
Dec 5 2019 // Local governments in regions hard hit by the U.S. opioid epidemic have opted out of massive litigation taking aim at the drug industry over the crisis, potentially weakening a novel legal mechanism created to help settle...
County Official: No Plans to Sue over Texas Chemical Plant Fire
Dec 4 2019 // The top official of an east Texas county that evacuated 60,000 residents last week after a petrochemical plant exploded and caught fire said on Dec. 3 he does not plan to sue the company, and will leave potential...
Hospitals Sue to Block Trump Mandate on Cost Disclosure
Dec 4 2019 // Hospital groups have challenged the Trump administration’s rule that requires hospitals to be more transparent about prices they charge patients for healthcare services, according to a lawsuit filed on Wednesday. The...
How Sex Abuse Claims Laws Have Changed in 15 States
Dec 4 2019 // Fifteen states have revised their laws in the past two years extending or suspending statute of limitations to allow child sex abuse claims stretching back decades, unleashing potentially thousands of new lawsuits against...
Under New State Laws, Catholic Church Could See New Wave of Abuse Suits
Dec 4 2019 // A wave of new laws in 15 states that allow people to make claims of sexual abuse going back decades could bring a deluge of lawsuits against the Roman Catholic Church that could surpass anything seen so far in its clergy...
Directors and Officers Face Significantly Higher Range of Risks: Allianz Report
Dec 4 2019 // The range of risks facing company executives, or directors and officers (D&Os), has increased significantly in recent years along with resulting insurance claims, according to a report published by Allianz Global...
Was It an Act of War? That’s Merck Cyber Attack’s $1.3 Billion Insurance Question.
Dec 3 2019 // By the time Deb Dellapena arrived for work at Merck & Co.’s 90-acre campus north of Philadelphia, there was a handwritten sign on the door: The computers are down. It was worse than it seemed. Some employees who...
Reuters Special Report: Powder Keg- Regulators Bowed to Industry for Decades Over Talc Risks
Dec 3 2019 // At an invitation-only gathering late last year, U.S. regulators and their guests huddled at a hotel near Washington, D.C., to discuss the best way to detect cancer-causing asbestos in talc powders and cosmetics. The...
Feds Sue Arkansas Insurer Over Fired Employee Who Had A Baby
Dec 2 2019 // The federal government is suing a Little Rock, Ark.-based insurance company over the firing of a worker who had just had a baby. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed the lawsuit last week in Little Rock...
Judge Blocks Facebook Data Breach Victims from Suing for Damages as Group
Dec 2 2019 // A federal judge said up to 29 million Facebook Inc. users whose personal information was stolen in a September 2018 data breach cannot sue as a group for damages, but can seek better security at the social media company...
Kentucky School District to Sue Electronic Cigarette Makers
Dec 2 2019 // A Kentucky school district plans to sue electronic cigarette companies for creating what it says is an epidemic of nicotine addiction affecting student health and school learning environments. News outlets report the...
Elderly Washington Woman Dies After Drop by Ambulance Workers, Suit Charges
Dec 2 2019 // The family of a 92-year-old Vancouver, Wash., woman who died after ambulance workers who were transporting her allegedly dropped her onto a sidewalk has filed a $4 million lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed in Multnomah County...
Oregon City Paying $350K Linked to Earthquake Warning Sign Suit
Dec 2 2019 // Portland has agreed to pay $350,000 in attorneys’ fees related to a now-repealed policy that mandated warning signs on brittle brick buildings saying they are seismically unsafe. The Portland City Council voted 4-0...
Insurance Companies Sue Government Over Gatlinburg Fire
Nov 27 2019 // More than 40 insurance companies sued the federal government last week over its handling of a 2016 Tennessee wildfire that killed 14 people and destroyed or damaged more than 2,500 buildings in Sevier County. The Knoxville...
Vegan Suing Burger King Over Its ‘Impossible Whopper’ Has a Real Beef: Viewpoint
Nov 27 2019 // Is it really true that Burger King’s new Impossible Whopper is, as the ads claim, “100% Whopper, 0% beef”? A lawsuit just filed in federal court in Florida insists that the answer is no. The answer...
Florida Investigating Attorney Charged with Lawsuit Fraud
Nov 26 2019 // The Florida Bar has opened an investigation of a New York lawyer who it says may have been practicing in Florida without a license. The Bar’s investigation of Stuart Finkelstein stems from federal charges this week...
Texas McDonald’s Franchisee Settles Sex Harassment Lawsuit for $340K
Nov 26 2019 // A McDonald’s franchise owner with locations in Texas pay $340,000 and furnish other relief to settle a federal sexual harassment lawsuit. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged in its lawsuit...
E-Cigarette Maker Juul Pulled Into Tobacco Product Liability Case
Nov 26 2019 // A Florida state court judge ordered the co-founder of the e-cigarette maker Juul Labs Inc. to answer questions under oath in a case involving a woman suing the cigarette-maker Philip Morris USA. While Juul has challenged...
