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Delta Must Face Passenger Lawsuit Over Massive CrowdStrike Computer Outage
May 7 2025 // Delta Air Lines must face a proposed class action by passengers who said it refused to offer full refunds after delaying or canceling their flights following a massive computer outage last July, a federal judge ruled on...
Burger King Must Face Lawsuit Over Whopper Ads
May 6 2025 // Burger King must face a lawsuit claiming it misleads customers with advertisements that make its Whopper sandwich and other products appear larger than they are. In a decision on Monday, U.S. District Judge Roy Altman in...
Mother of Dead Inmate Sues Troubled Wisconsin Prison
May 5 2025 // The mother of an inmate who died of dehydration and malnutrition at Wisconsin’s oldest maximum security prison last year has filed a federal lawsuit, marking the fourth action brought by relatives of inmates who have...
Marsh Sues Aon, Ex-Team Leader Over Exit of 20 Construction Surety Employees
May 5 2025 // Global insurance broker Marsh USA filed suit against competitor Aon and a former Marsh team leader for allegedly poaching key members of Marsh’s construction surety team who resigned and moved to Aon in March. A...
EEOC Sues Illinois Shipping Company Under Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
May 5 2025 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sued R&L Carriers Shared Services, LLC, a freight transportation and logistics company, to enforce a subpoena that the EEOC issued during their investigation of a...
Insurance Brokers File More Poaching Lawsuits Against Former Leaders and Competitors
May 5 2025 // USI Insurance Services, one of the largest brokerages in the country, has filed suit against a former sales team leader and another powerhouse broker, Lockton, accusing them of poaching employees and harming client...
Florida Lawmakers Vote to Repeal ‘Free Kill’ Law Affecting Med Mal Suits
May 2 2025 // Adult children and parents of young adults who died under medical care will soon be able to recover punitive and pain-and-suffering damages in medical malpractice lawsuits if Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs a bill into...
California Attorney General Suing Cleaning Company Over ‘No-Poach’ Deals
May 2 2025 // California’s Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against a national sanitation company for allegedly using “no-poach” agreements. California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the lawsuit this week...
Trump Administration Sues Michigan to Halt State’s Fossil Fuel Lawsuit Plan
May 1 2025 // The Trump administration sued Michigan and Hawaii seeking to block the states from suing oil companies for damage caused by climate change, less than two months after the US Supreme Court rebuffed a Republican bid to...
Ohio Eatery to Pay $125K Over Race Discrimination Lawsuit
May 1 2025 // Bennett Enterprises Inc., doing business as Ralphie’s Sports Eatery Company, will pay $125,000 and provide other relief to settle a race, disability and retaliation discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal...
With Wildfire Suits Looming, Edison Beats Estimates on Lower Expenses, Rate Hikes
Apr 30 2025 // Edison International beat Wall Street estimates for first-quarter profit on Tuesday, as the utility benefited from lower operating and interest expenses and higher rates for its services. Lower interest rates reduce...
Heritage Files Libel, Defamation Suit vs. Adjuster After ’60 Minutes’ Report
Apr 30 2025 // Six weeks after Tampa-based Heritage Property & Casualty Insurance Co. filed a libel suit against a whistleblower claims adjuster, the adjuster’s lawyer has pushed back, arguing that the suit is an attempt to...
FBI Raided the Wrong House. Now the US Supreme Court Will Hear Their Lawsuit
Apr 29 2025 // Before dawn on Oct. 18, 2017, FBI agents broke down the front door of Trina Martin’s Atlanta home, stormed into her bedroom and pointed guns at her and her then-boyfriend as her 7-year-old son screamed for his mom...
Warner Bros Fends Off Superman Copyright Lawsuit Ahead of New Movie
Apr 29 2025 // Warner Bros. Discovery convinced a U.S. judge to dismiss a lawsuit over rights to the iconic character Superman, lifting a legal headache before the company releases its new “Superman” movie this summer. U.S....
Markets/Coverages: BHSI Updates Private Company Executive Lines Suite in Canada
Apr 29 2025 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has introduced an update to its Private Company Executive Lines suite of products in Canada and named Shaun Lue as private company leader. The new modular offering includes...
North Dakota Enacts Law Shielding Bayer From Roundup Lawsuits
Apr 29 2025 // A new first-of-its-kind law enacted in North Dakota could shield agrochemical manufacturer Bayer from lawsuits claiming it failed to warn customers that its popular weedkiller Roundup could cause cancer. Though the...
Midwest Trucking Company to Pay $45K Over Discrimination Disability Lawsuit
Apr 28 2025 // Mail Hauler Trucking, LLC., which delivers mail for the United States Postal Service in North Dakota and South Dakota, will pay $45,000 and provide other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
DoorDash Asks Judge to Dismiss Uber Suit Over Web Ordering Services
Apr 25 2025 // DoorDash Inc. asked a California judge to dismiss Uber Technologies Inc.’s anticompetition lawsuit against it, arguing that Uber is using an “ill-fitting” state law to justify its claims. DoorDash, which...
Father of Tesla Cybertruck Crash Victim Files Lawsuit Over Death
Apr 25 2025 // The family of one of three college students who died in a Cybertruck crash in California filed a lawsuit in a bid to gain access to the Tesla Inc. pickup and better understand how their daughter died. The driver and two...
Florida Class Action Targets Litigation Funding Firm Over Data Breach
Apr 25 2025 // Third-party litigation financing has become big business across the country, much to the chagrin of businesses and insurance companies that have faced multi-million lawsuit verdicts. But now one Florida-based litigation...
