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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...
Drugmakers Sue to Halt Rule on Prices in TV Ads
Jun 17 2019 // U.S. drugmakers on Friday filed a lawsuit to prevent the companies from disclosing the list price of prescription drugs in direct-to-consumer television advertisements as per a newly proposed government regulation. The...
Plaintiffs Suing Drug Firms Eye Opioid Settlement Involving Every County, Municipality
Jun 17 2019 // Lawyers representing county and municipal governments accusing drug manufacturers and distributors of fueling the U.S. opioid epidemic proposed a novel plan on Friday that would allow every community nationally to...
Milwaukee Jury Awards $6M in Lead Poisoning Suit
Jun 17 2019 // A federal jury in Milwaukee has awarded $2 million each to three men who sued three major paint and pigment companies which the men claimed were responsible for the lead poisoning they suffered as toddlers in their...
Wells Fargo Settling California Car Loan Suit for $385M
Jun 17 2019 // Wells Fargo has agreed to pay at least $385 million to settle a California lawsuit alleging it signed up thousands of auto loan customers for costly car insurance without their consent, resulting in many having their...
Suit Filed Against Wyoming Developer in Deadly Trench Collapse
Jun 14 2019 // A wrongful death lawsuit claims dangerous work conditions and a Wyoming developer’s negligence caused the deaths of two men when a trench collapsed last year. The Jackson Hole News and Guide reports the lawsuit was...
Texas Company to Pay $75K to Settle Disability Discrimination Suit
Jun 14 2019 // L-3 Communications, a large defense contractor with facilities in Texas, will pay $75,000 and furnish other relief to settle a federal disability discrimination lawsuit. According to the lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal...
