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Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen Asks Judge to Dismiss Roy Moore Defamation Suit
Sep 19 2019 // Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen asked a federal judge to dismiss Roy Moore’s defamation lawsuit over a television segment that lampooned Moore in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations. Lawyers for Baron Cohen,...
North Carolina Attorney General Plans to Sue Purdue Pharma Family
Sep 18 2019 // North Carolina’s attorney general says he’s pursuing accountability from the family that owns OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma with a pending lawsuit over their role in the country’s opioid...
BNP Broker Wins Sex Discrimination Lawsuit, Highlighting Unequal Pay, Laddish Culture
Sep 18 2019 // A broker at BNP Paribas SA who complained about being paid less than male colleagues won her employment suit after a London judge ruled that she suffered sexual discrimination. Stacey Macken, a prime brokerage product...
Lawsuit Claims Poor Information About Pipeline Led to Fatal Blast in Alabama
Sep 17 2019 // A federal lawsuit accuses a major pipeline company based in Georgia of failing to tell work crews where a major underground pipeline was located before they ruptured the line, touching off a deadly explosion in...
Lawsuits Targeting E-Cigarettes Increase Along with Death, Illness Reports
Sep 17 2019 // Several deaths and potentially hundreds of illnesses have been tied to e-cigarettes, which allow users to inhale nicotine vapor, often flavored, without smoking. Lawsuits have been filed against e-cigarette maker Juul and...
Parents of Georgia Tech Student Shot by Campus Police Officer Sue School
Sep 16 2019 // The parents of a Georgia Tech student killed by a campus police officer two years ago have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the school, the university system and the officer. Authorities have said university police...
Feds Sue Oklahoma Car Dealership for Sex Discrimination
Sep 16 2019 // Federal employment officials have sued a car dealership in Norman, Oklahoma, saying the company unlawfully refused to hire a sales job candidate because she was female. In the lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
17 Lawsuits Filed Against U. of Missouri’s BioJoint Center
Sep 16 2019 // Four more people who received knee-replacement surgery at the Mizzou BioJoint Center say in lawsuits that their surgeries failed. Including the newly filed lawsuits, 17 people have sued the center at University of Missouri...
Facing Thousands of Opioid Lawsuits, Purdue Pharma Files for Bankruptcy Protection
Sep 16 2019 // OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP filed for bankruptcy protection Sunday night, succumbing to pressure from more than 2,600 lawsuits alleging the company helped fuel the deadly U.S. opioid epidemic. Purdue’s board met...
Bill Would Allow Service Members to Sue Military for Medical Malpractice
Sep 16 2019 // U.S. Senators John Kennedy (R-La.) and Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) have introduced legislation to allow active duty service members to sue the military for medical malpractice and negligence. A Supreme Court decision in 1950...
Dive Boat Owners Seek to Head off Lawsuits After 34 Die in Fire off California Coast
Sep 16 2019 // The owners of the dive boat where 34 people perished in a fire off Southern California filed a lawsuit in early September to head off potentially costly litigation, a move condemned by some observers as disrespectful to...
Oregon Teen Who Lost His Leg in DUI Accident Sues Driver, Brewery
Sep 16 2019 // An Oregon teen who lost his leg in a car wreck is suing the driver who crashed into him — along with the Salem brewery accused of over-serving the driver- for $3.5 million. James Holland Jr., along with his parents,...
Arch Nemesis of Uber over Driver Pay Sues Before New California Law Inked
Sep 13 2019 // It didn’t take long for attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan to deploy a new weapon in her six-year war with Uber Technologies Inc. over driver pay. Within hours of Uber thumbing its nose at a pending California labor law...
California Lawsuit Over Profits From Fox Series “Bones” is Settled
Sep 13 2019 // A lawsuit over profits between the producers and stars of the show “Bones” and 21st Century Fox has been settled. The two sides in the long-running lawsuit over the hit Fox TV show filed documents saying the...
Uber Being Sued Over Resistance to California ‘Gig’ Contractor Law
Sep 13 2019 // A driver for Uber has sued the company for misclassifying its drivers as independent contractors, hours after California legislators voted to help thousands of those workers become, and enjoy the benefits of being,...
Virginia is Latest State to Sue Purdue Pharma Family
Sep 13 2019 // Virginia has joined a growing number of states suing members of the family that owns Purdue Pharma for their alleged role in the nation’s opioid crisis. Attorney General Mark Herring announced Wednesday that the...
Mississippi Proposes New Labeling Regulations for Plant-Based Foods
Sep 13 2019 // Mississippi is considering new rules that let companies continue to use food-labeling terms such as “veggie burger” and “vegan bacon,” as long as the terms are prominently displayed so consumers...
Hardening Markets, Social Inflation, E&S Business: Berkley, AIG Execs Face Analysts
Sep 13 2019 // The commercial general liability line will be the next property/casualty line to harden, the chief executive of W.R. Berkley Corp. predicted at an industry conference. Speaking at the Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Insurance...
Reuters: How Court Lets Merck Hide Baldness Drug Propecia’s Risks
Sep 12 2019 // By the time Kelly Pfaff got home from driving her son to school that morning, it was too late. Her husband, John, was supposed to be taking their 4-year-old daughter to school. But the girl and the nanny were still at the...
Dallas Electric Utility to Pay $50K to Settle Federal Disability Discrimination Suit
Sep 11 2019 // A Dallas-based electric utility company will pay $50,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit, federal officials said. A consent decree in the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
