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In Review of Hail Claims Cases, Texas High Court Clarifies Bad Faith in Appraisal Process
Aug 19 2019 // An insurer’s payment of the appraisal value after disputing a claim does not establish that it was liable, nor does that payment prevent a policyholder from pursuing penalties under the Prompt Payment of Claims Act,...
Over 400 Sex Abuse Suits Filed in New York as Litigation Window Opens
Aug 16 2019 // The Roman Catholic Church, the Boy Scouts, schools and hospitals, the late financier Jeffrey Epstein are some of the targets named in a flurry of sex abuse lawsuits filed Wednesday in New York as the state began accepting...
Facebook Warned Its Employees, Not Users, About 2018 Breach, Lawsuit Says
Aug 16 2019 // Facebook users suing the world’s largest social media network over a 2018 data breach say it failed to warn them about risks tied to its single sign-on tool, even though it protected its employees, a court filing on...
Family of Teen Who Died Trapped in Car Sues Cincinnati Over 911 Response
Aug 16 2019 // The family of a 16-year-old student who died trapped in a vehicle after a failed response to his two heartrending 911 calls has sued the city of Cincinnati, Ohio. The wrongful death lawsuit filed in Hamilton County charges...
London Litigation Funder Burford Alleges Share Manipulation in Attack on Its Accounts
Aug 15 2019 // London-listed litigation funder Burford Capital said it has found evidence of suspect trading patterns in its shares around the time short-seller Muddy Waters issued a report challenging the company’s accounts last...
Arch Insurance Says Policy Doesn’t Cover USC’s $215M Sex Abuse Settlement
Aug 15 2019 // Arch Specialty Insurance Co. is arguing in a recently filed a lawsuit that it shouldn’t have to cover the University of Southern California’s $215 million settlement in a case in which the school’s...
Lawsuit: Negligence Caused Legionnaires’ Outbreak at Atlanta Hotel
Aug 14 2019 // A lawsuit filed Monday alleges “negligence in the operation and maintenance of the water systems” caused a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak at a downtown Atlanta hotel that killed one person and potentially...
Nissan Settles Suit Over South Carolina Teen Crash Death for $1.5M
Aug 14 2019 // Nissan Motor Co. has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the estate of an 18-year-old who died in the crash of a vehicle that lacked a rollover sensor. The State reports Nissan Motor Co. and Ashlynn...
Female Customers Sue Lyft Alleging Sexual Assaults by Drivers
Aug 13 2019 // Lyft Inc.’s image as the “woke” ride-hailing company faces a new challenge from a rash of lawsuits filed by women who claim they were sexually assaulted by drivers summoned to take them home after...
Rhode Island Worker Sues City Over Alleged Whistleblower Retaliation
Aug 13 2019 // A Providence, Rhode Island, city employee who says she was compelled to resign from her previous position after years of reporting coworkers’ fraudulent credit card spending is suing the city. The Providence Journal...
James Levine’s Lawsuit Against Met Opera Has Been Settled
Aug 13 2019 // Conductor James Levine’s breach of contract and defamation lawsuit against the Metropolitan Opera has been settled. A lawyer for Levine and the company made the announcement last Tuesday but did not disclose terms of...
3 Sue Louisiana Pipeline Owner, Others Over Bayou Bridge Protest Arrests
Aug 12 2019 // Three people protesting construction of a south Louisiana oil pipeline last year were illegally arrested and assaulted, they claim in a lawsuit filed Aug. 9 against the pipeline’s owners, a security company, a...
Las Vegas Suit Alleges Wayne Newton’s Monkey Bit Girl Visiting His Home
Aug 12 2019 // Entertainer Wayne Newton is being sued by a Las Vegas woman who claims the veteran crooner’s pet monkey bit and injured her daughter during an invited visit to Newton’s showpiece mansion nearly two years...
6 Washington Patrol Troopers Sue Ford Over Carbon Monoxide
Aug 12 2019 // Six Washington State Patrol troopers have filed a class-action lawsuit against Ford Motor Company saying their patrol vehicles gave them carbon monoxide poisoning. KOIN reported the lawsuit, filed last week in Clark County...
Idaho Tribe Sues Mining Company Over Pollution
Aug 12 2019 // The Nez Perce Tribe has filed a lawsuit to force a Canadian company to clean up an idle central Idaho mining area – which the company says it plans to do if it gets approval from U.S. officials to restart mining at the...
Insurer MBIA Sues Banks Over ‘Financial Tragedy’ of Defaulted Puerto Rico Bonds
Aug 12 2019 // Bond insurance company MBIA Inc. sued several financial institutions on Thursday over their role in underwriting billions of dollars of Puerto Rico bonds that eventually went into default. The lawsuit filed in superior...
Facebook Must Face Privacy Class Action Over Collecting Biometric Data
Aug 12 2019 // A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected Facebook Inc.’s effort to undo a class action lawsuit claiming that it illegally collected and stored biometric data for millions of users without their consent. The 3-0...
Lawsuit Says Manufacturer, Rancher Caused Oregon Wildfire
Aug 9 2019 // A lawsuit says a rancher, workers and the John Deere farm equipment company are at fault for a wildfire that burned parts of an Oregon Native American reservation. The Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs filed the...
Bayer Proposes to Settle U.S. Roundup Lawsuits for $8 Billion: Bloomberg
Aug 9 2019 // Bayer AG is proposing to pay as much as $8 billion to settle more than 18,000 U.S. lawsuits alleging its Roundup herbicide causes cancer, according to people familiar with the negotiations. An agreement, which could take...
Dartmouth Settles Lawsuit Over Sexual Misconduct by Professors for $14M
Aug 9 2019 // Dartmouth College announced Tuesday that it has settled a contentious federal lawsuit with nine women who sued the school over allegations that it ignored years of harassment and assault by former psychology department...
