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Judge to Decide J&J Vaginal Mesh Lawsuit in Australia
Nov 20 2019 // An Australian judge will rule this week whether Johnson & Johnson hid the risks of its vaginal-mesh products and damaged the organs of women, in the latest ruling in worldwide litigation against the U.S. company over...
Juul Sued by New York State Over Marketing Vape Products to Kids
Nov 20 2019 // Juul Labs Inc. is being sued by New York for allegedly trampling state marketing laws by targeting teenagers in advertisements for e-cigarettes and misleading statements about nicotine content in vaping products, among...
Mississippi Police Officer Sues Over Gender Bias
Nov 20 2019 // A woman is suing a Mississippi police department where she was the sole female officer. News outlets report Tiffany McClure sued the city of Lumberton for discrimination on Wednesday, saying she was fired last year as a...
Connecticut Woman Sues Uber After Driver’s Sexual Assault
Nov 19 2019 // A Connecticut woman who says she was sexually assaulted by her Uber driver last year has filed a lawsuit against the ride-sharing app. The Middletown Press reports the lawsuit filed by the 22-year-old woman in Milford...
South Dakota Doctor Made Millions on Unneeded Surgeries, Feds Say
Nov 19 2019 // A South Dakota neurosurgeon made millions of dollars by performing unnecessary and dangerous surgeries, including one that left a patient partially paralyzed, federal prosecutors contend in a lawsuit against the...
Dollar General to Pay $6M to Settle Federal Class Race Discrimination Suit
Nov 19 2019 // Major retail chain Dollar General will pay $6 million and furnish other relief to settle a federal class race discrimination lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in...
California Sues E-Cigarette Seller Juul for Targeting Teens with Nicotine Products
Nov 19 2019 // The state of California on Monday sued e-cigarette maker Juul Labs Inc., alleging the San Francisco company engaged in a “systematic” and “wildly successful” campaign to attract teenagers to its...
Shareholder Suit Claims Boeing Board Liable in 737 MAX Problems
Nov 19 2019 // A shareholder lawsuit filed on Monday accused Boeing Co.’s board of doing nothing to investigate the safety of the 737 MAX until the fast-selling plane suffered a second deadly crash in five months. The lawsuit is...
Missouri Police Officer’s $20M Lawsuit Award to Be Mediated
Nov 18 2019 // A St. Louis County police officer has agreed to mediation to reach a settlement and avoid court appeals, weeks after a jury awarded him $20 million to resolve his lawsuit alleging he suffered discrimination because he is...
Oklahoma Appeals Court Upholds Class Action Status for Earthquake Lawsuit
Nov 18 2019 // The Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals has upheld the class action designation of a lawsuit against an oil company over damage caused by earthquakes near Prague in November 2011, including one of magnitude 5.7. The court on...
Walmart Alters Disability Reassignment Policy to Settle Suit in Maine
Nov 18 2019 // Walmart has agreed to change its national policy for reassigning disabled workers to settle a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Maine. The settlement requires Walmart to offer disabled...
Epstein Estate Vows Compensation for Accusers Who Drop Damage Lawsuits
Nov 18 2019 // The estate of Jeffrey Epstein wants to set up a fund using the late financier’s fortune to compensate women willing to forgo a spate of lawsuits seeking damages for sexual abuse, according to a court document filed...
Alabama Court Allows Workers Comp Suit Against AIG, Coventry
Nov 18 2019 // An Alabama appellate court has cleared the way for a lawsuit that alleges outrageous and fraudulent conduct by American International Group and Coventry against a worker who was injured in an explosion and sought...
$1M Lawsuit Filed in Oregon over Patient Found Dead in Basement
Nov 18 2019 // The family of a 67-year-old woman who allegedly died after she wandered out of her hospital room and into the basement of Providence Portland Medical Center in Oregon has filed a $1.075 million lawsuit. A lawsuit claims...
Attorney: Oklahoma’s Tulsa County to Pay $10M to Settle Jail Death Suit
Nov 15 2019 // Officials have agreed to settle a lawsuit over the death of a 37-year-old man, who died in 2011 after lying naked in a Tulsa County, Oklahoma, jail cell for five days with a broken neck. Documents filed in federal court in...
Supreme Court Weighs Legal Standard in $20B Racial Bias Claim Against Comcast
Nov 15 2019 // U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday expressed sympathy toward allowing comedian and producer Byron Allen to pursue his racial bias lawsuit accusing cable television operator Comcast Corp. of discriminating against...
California Trucking Association Suing over New Independent Contractor Law
Nov 14 2019 // The California Trucking Association and two California independent owner-operator truck drivers have filed an amended complaint with the U.S. Southern District Court seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against...
Former Executive Sues MetLife Alleging Gender Bias; Insurer Denies Claims
Nov 14 2019 // A former MetLife Inc. executive claims she suffered years of gender-based pay discrimination and harassment from members of the insurer’s top leadership team and that she was fired after complaining about a lack of...
Texas Oilfield Services Firms to Pay $1.2M to Settle Federal Race Discrimination Suit
Nov 14 2019 // Two Houston-based oil field services companies have agreed to pay a total of $1,225,000 to settle a race discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by federal officials. According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
Nearly 30 Kansas Counties, Cities Suing the Opioid Industry
Nov 13 2019 // More than two dozen cities and counties across Kansas have sued the opioid industry, from a small town with a population of 150 near the Colorado border to the state’s most populous county at its opposite end. More...
