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How Florida’s Strained Insurance Market is Facing COVID-19, Hurricane Season
Jun 3 2020 // From the threat of insurer ratings downgrades to mounting carrier losses because of excessive litigation to increasing insurance rates, Florida’s insurance market got off to a rocky start in 2020. Then came the...
Basketball Players Lose Copyright Infringement Bid Over ‘Fortnite’ Dance
Jun 3 2020 // A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit in which two former University of Maryland men’s basketball players accused makers of the “Fortnite” video game of misappropriating a dance move that the...
$5 Billion Lawsuit Accuses Google of Tracking Users’ Private Internet Activity
Jun 3 2020 // Google was sued on Tuesday in a proposed class action accusing the internet search company of illegally invading the privacy of millions of users by pervasively tracking their internet use through browsers set in...
Oklahoma Company to Pay $55K to Settle Disability Discrimination Suit
Jun 2 2020 // An Oklahoma-based internet retailer will pay $55,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit, federal officials say. In its lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said Black Forest Décor...
Big Publishers Sue Digital ‘Emergency Library’ Offering Free Books During Coronavirus
Jun 2 2020 // Four of the country’s biggest publishers have sued a digital library for copyright infringement, alleging that the Internet Archive has illegally offered more than a million scanned works to the public, including...
Nevada Property Manager Paying $300K in Virus Eviction Ban Lawsuit
Jun 2 2020 // A Nevada-based property management company that issued eviction notices to tenants in Tacoma during the coronavirus pandemic has agreed to pay nearly $350,000 to resolve a lawsuit filed by Washington state Attorney General...
SUITELIFE Underwriting Managers Hires Gentile as Underwriter
Jun 2 2020 // SUITELIFE Underwriting Managers, a managing general underwriter for full-service hotels, premier hotels, boutique hotels, condo-hotels, resorts and hotel management companies, has hired Zach Gentile as an underwriter....
How COVID-19 Court Lockdowns May Turn the Social Inflation Tide
Jun 2 2020 // Defense attorney Ellen Greiper reported receiving more than the usual number of phone calls from plaintiffs attorneys earlier this month, suggesting that the call dynamics could be signaling a COVID-driven change in social...
Minnesota Worker Sues Iowa City after Electrocution
Jun 1 2020 // A construction worker from Minnesota who was electrocuted and fell from a building is suing the city of Sibley, Iowa, for negligence. Victor Maldonado, of Worthington, Minnesota, alleges in a lawsuit that the city knew the...
Louisiana Lawmakers OK Bills to Limit Virus Lawsuits Against Businesses
Jun 1 2020 // Louisiana lawmakers want to give protections from most lawsuits for coronavirus deaths and injuries to businesses that never closed during the outbreak and those that are newly reopening. The Republican-led bills by Sen....
After Being Exonerated in 2003 Murder, Men Sue Chicago Police
Jun 1 2020 // Two men who were arrested as teenagers and spent nearly half their lives behind bars after being wrongfully convicted of murder have sued Chicago police and Cook County prosecutors for malicious prosecution, lawyers for...
Boy Scouts Filing Sexual Abuse Lawsuits Face Deadline Agreed to in Bankruptcy Deal
Jun 1 2020 // Some victims of childhood sex abuse who are considering suing the Boy Scouts of America face a choice: an anguished rush to meet a deadline earlier than what lawmakers intended, or wait and sue local councils, perhaps...
Google Sued by Arizona over ‘Deceptive’ Location Tracking
Jun 1 2020 // Google kept tabs on the whereabouts of its users even if they had turned off location tracking, an Arizona official alleged in a lawsuit filed Wednesday. The suit filed by Attorney General Mark Brnovich stemmed from an...
Investors, Bondholders Sue Occidental Over Anadarko Merger
Jun 1 2020 // Occidental Petroleum Corp. has been sued by investors who claim they suffered billions of dollars of losses because the heavily indebted company concealed its inability to weather plunging oil prices, after paying $35.7...
Nursing Home With Oregon’s Deadliest Virus Outbreak Sued
Jun 1 2020 // The daughter of a woman who died after contracting the coronavirus at a Portland long-term care facility filed a $1.8 million lawsuit last month claiming elder abuse. Angela Brown says her 75-year-old mother, Judith Jones,...
Coronavirus Business Interruption Suits Top 100; More Expected
Jun 1 2020 // A federal court has received notice that 101 lawsuits have been filed as of late May seeking coverage from insurers for business interruption losses caused by COVID-19. Plaintiffs attorneys say they expect the number to...
U.S. Court Says State Courts Are Proper Forum for Climate Suits Against Big Oil
May 29 2020 // Big Oil lost a pair of court battles Tuesday that could lead to trials in lawsuits by California cities and counties seeking damages for the impact of climate change. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected...
New Lawsuit Filed Against Virginia Tech Over Hazing
May 29 2020 // Another former cadet has filed a lawsuit against Virginia Tech over being suspended in connection with a blood-pinning ceremony. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court alleges the university violated the due process...
South Dakota Property Owners Sue Over Recently Exposed Mine, Sinkhole
May 29 2020 // Residents of a Black Hawk, South Dakota, neighborhood where a sinkhole has exposed an abandoned mine endangering their properties have filed a $75.5 million lawsuit claiming government entities and private developers were...
University in Utah, Parents Didn’t Settle Lawsuit Over Slain Student
May 29 2020 // The University of Utah did not reach a settlement after two of mediation with the parents of slain track star Lauren McCluskey who filed a $56 million lawsuit over her death in 2018. The McCluskeys’ attorney Jim...
