Latest Lawsuits Headlines
All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
High School Student Sued for Activating Virginia Hotel Room Sprinkler
Jun 26 2019 // A hotel’s insurance company has sued a high school student it claims caused more than $690,000 in damage by activating a sprinkler inside one of its rooms. The Virginian-Pilot reports Landstown High School senior...
Opioid Lawsuits Unlikely to Top Tobacco Settlements
Jun 25 2019 // An Oklahoma case, the first of more than 1,600 lawsuits filed by U.S. state and local governments against opioid makers to go to trial, could serve as a key benchmark for governments hoping to recoup costs associated with...
Reuters Report: How Judges’ Secrecy Has Added to Toll of Opioids and Other Products
Jun 25 2019 // WELCH, West Virginia —The opioid epidemic that has so far killed half a million Americans is routinely blamed on greedy drug makers, feckless doctors and lax regulators. But there’s another group that has...
Chicago Cargo Company to Pay $135K to Settle EEOC Harassment, Retaliation Suit
Jun 25 2019 // Federal officials say a Chicago-based cargo handling company will pay $135,000 to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit. Alliance Ground International, a cargo handling company that performs cargo, mail and...
JetBlue Lawsuit Claims Walmart Violates Its Trademark with Jetblack Service
Jun 25 2019 // JetBlue Airways Corp. has sued Walmart Inc. for trademark infringement, in an effort to stop the world’s largest retailer from using the name Jetblack for its text-based personal shopping service. In a complaint...
MGM Resorts Sues Zurich American Insurance for Las Vegas Shooting Defense Costs
Jun 24 2019 // More than 4,000 people are seeking damages from MGM Resorts International related to the Las Vegas Strip mass shooting that left 58 people dead, the casino giant said in a lawsuit alleging its insurance company has failed...
Idaho Crop Insurance Company Will Pay $3.48M in Lawsuit
Jun 24 2019 // A crop insurance company has agreed to pay a southwestern Idaho farming family $3.48 million following a lawsuit. The Idaho Statesman reported that the Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company of Idaho agreed to pay Nate and...
Women Employees at Oracle Seek Class-Action Status in Gender Pay Lawsuit
Jun 24 2019 // Call it the class ceiling. Women suing major technology companies for gender discrimination would have much stronger leverage against their employers if they could press their claims on behalf of a large group of female...
Facebook Faces Lawsuit for Data Breach Affecting Nearly 30 Million Users
Jun 24 2019 // Facebook Inc. failed to fend off a lawsuit over a data breach that affected nearly 30 million users, one of several privacy snafus that have put the company under siege. The company’s disclosure in September that...
Billions at Stake from Opioid Suits but Damages Unlikely to Top $200B Tobacco Windfall
Jun 21 2019 // An Oklahoma case, the first of more than 1,600 lawsuits filed by U.S. state and local governments against opioid makers to go to trial, could serve as a key benchmark for governments hoping to recoup costs associated with...
Settlements with Ohio Hospital System Reach Nearly $4.5M in Painkiller Deaths Case
Jun 20 2019 // An Ohio hospital system has reached nearly $4.5 million in settlements so far over the deaths of patients who allegedly received excessive painkiller doses ordered by a doctor now charged with murder. At least 29...
NY1 News Anchors Sue Charter For Age, Gender Discrimination
Jun 20 2019 // Five female news anchors sued Charter Communications Inc., claiming rampant age and gender discrimination at the company’s popular New York One news channel has rendered their decades of experience...
Nevada’s Attorney General Files Wide-Ranging Opioid Lawsuit
Jun 19 2019 // Nevada’s attorney general expanded the state’s lawsuit against the maker of the opioid OxyContin this week to include the company’s former president, his family, other drugmakers, distributors and...
Sandy Hook Shooting Victims’ Parents Win Defamation Suit Against Conspiracy Authors
Jun 19 2019 // The father of a victim of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre has won a defamation lawsuit against the authors of a book that claimed the shooting never happened — the latest victory for victims’ relatives...
Chicago Staffing Firm to Pay $50K to Settle Sex Harassment Lawsuit
Jun 19 2019 // Chicago-based Staff Management | SMX (SMX), which provides temporary employees to the light-industrial sector worldwide, will pay $50,000 to a female former employee and furnish other relief to settle a sexual harassment...
D&O Insurance Costs Soar as Investors Run to Court Over IPOs
Jun 18 2019 // Companies going public in the United States face insurance costs that have increased as much as 200% in the last three years to cover their executives against lawsuits alleging they misled investors. A rise in securities...
What to Expect from Florida’s AOB Reform Law Taking Effect July 1
Jun 18 2019 // The countdown is on for Florida assignment of benefits (AOB) reform that will take effect July 1, and the insurance industry is getting ready to respond to new requirements as a result of the law as well as evaluating how...
Lawsuits Filed Over Legionnaires’ Outbreak at Ohio Hospital
Jun 17 2019 // Two people who say they contracted Legionnaires’ disease at a newly opened Ohio hospital have sued the facility and its health system. Martin and Rebecca Brown, from Orient, sued Mount Carmel Grove City in Franklin...
Alexa, Why Was a Lawsuit Filed Against You?
Jun 17 2019 // If Big Brother isn’t watching, maybe his little sister is listening. An international law firm has filed a federal lawsuit against Amazon.com Inc., alleging that the company’s Alexa virtual assistant product...
Insurer Must Cover Defendant in Fatal Bathroom Fight Lawsuit
Jun 17 2019 // A Delaware judge says an insurance company must extend liability coverage to a teenager who was convicted of criminally negligent homicide after a school bathroom attack captured on cellphone video that left a 16-year-old...
