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New Mexico County to Pay $1.75M to Settle Suits over Deadly 2017 Shooting
Feb 6 2019 // New Mexico’s Bernalillo County will pay almost $2 million to settle a series of lawsuits stemming from a deputy’s 2017 fatal shooting of two unarmed suspects. KRQE-TV reports the county will make a $1.75...
Thousands of Lawsuits Demanding PG&E Pay for Damages from Wildfires
Feb 5 2019 // Some 1,000 lawsuits have been filed since late 2017 demanding Pacific Gas & Electric Corporation pay for damages caused by wildfires. The lawsuits represent thousands of people, companies, cities and counties affected...
Employees with Sexual Harassment Case Against Lehman Still Waiting
Feb 5 2019 // Sexist comments, lewd gestures — and worse. Allegations like these are sorely familiar in the #MeToo era. Only this time, they hail from what seems like Wall Street’s Dark Ages: back when Lehman Brothers was...
J&J Reported to Settle Most Pinnacle Hip Implant Lawsuits
Feb 5 2019 // Johnson & Johnson, the world’s largest maker of health-care products, has agreed to settle the bulk of consumers’ lawsuits alleging it sold defective artificial hips and misled patients about their dangers,...
CSX Settles Civil Suit in Train Death of Film Worker in Georgia
Feb 4 2019 // A railroad owner settled a wrongful death lawsuit by the family of a film worker killed in 2014 when a train slammed into a crew shooting a movie about singer Gregg Allman, ending the company’s appeal of a $3.9...
States’ Power Grab to Ease Food Laws Emerges as Public Health Issue
Feb 4 2019 // In recent years, more than a dozen states have passed laws limiting local governments’ ability to create food and nutrition policies and more than two dozen states previously enacted laws preventing obesity-related...
Expert Ponders California Wildfire Commission, Other Solutions to State’s Severe Seasons
Feb 4 2019 // Establishing a California Wildfire Commission is just one idea an expert is tossing out to help the state deal with worsening fire seasons. James Woods was formerly co-leader of Mayer Brown’s Global Insurance...
Maryland Insurance Agency Settles Gender Discrimination Lawsuit
Feb 1 2019 // The Maryland Insurance Administration has settled a lawsuit over gender-based pay discrimination. News outlets report the agency will pay nearly $37,000 to three female fraud investigators who say they were paid less than...
Victims of Floor Collapse at Party Near Clemson Deal With Recovery, Lawsuits
Feb 1 2019 // For Nicole Dennis, Oct. 20 started out as a fun night. The Greenville resident and University of South Carolina junior was on fall break and visiting friends in Clemson. She decided to join them at a party for...
Utah Ski Crash Lawsuit Names Gwyneth Paltrow
Jan 31 2019 // Actress Gwyneth Paltrow has been accused in a new lawsuit Tuesday of breaking a man’s ribs and leaving him with a concussion when she smashed into him from behind while skiing at a Utah ski resort in 2016. Retired...
California Bail Industry Keeps Premiums High, Lawsuit Alleges
Jan 31 2019 // A lawsuit filed on behalf of bail customers claims surety companies and agents in California conspire to keep premiums high. The Los Angeles Times reported public-interest groups filed the suit this week in Alameda County...
Lawsuit Alleges Marriott Failure to Protect Employee Against Guests’ Sexual Misconduct
Jan 30 2019 // Leticia Vallejo, a housekeeper at a Marriott hotel in Irvine, California, said that back in the summer of 2017, a drunk male guest groped her while she was cleaning the hotel lobby bathroom. As he did so, he offered her...
Lawyer Suit Says FaceTime Eavesdropped on Talks with Client
Jan 30 2019 // Apple Inc. was sued by a Houston lawyer who claims his iPhone inadvertently allowed an unknown person to eavesdrop on his private conversation with a client. Apple has come under fire for a bug in its iOS 12.1 iPhone...
Expert Ponders California Wildfire Commission, Other Solutions to State’s Severe Seasons
Jan 29 2019 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Establishing a California Wildfire Commission is just one idea an expert is tossing out to help the state deal with worsening fire seasons. James Woods was formerly co-leader of Mayer...
Tinder Settles California Discrimination Suit by Daters 28 And up
Jan 29 2019 // Tinder agreed to settle an age-discrimination lawsuit by users in California older than 28 who claimed they had to pay more for the dating app’s premium features than younger users. The settlement covers about...
Families File Civil Suit Against Parents of Kentucky School Shooting Suspect
Jan 29 2019 // The families of victims of a Kentucky school shooting have filed separate civil lawsuits blaming the suspect’s parents for failing to secure a handgun used in the attack. The lawsuits say the mother and stepfather of...
Who Pays for Injuries Blamed on E-Scooters?
Jan 29 2019 // Over the past few years, cities across America have experienced sudden downpours of shared electric scooters, piling up almost overnight on curbs, sidewalks and front-yards from Atlanta to Los Angeles. The phenomenon has...
$13M Suit Filed Against Fitness Chain After Oregon Man Dies on Treadmill
Jan 28 2019 // A $13 million lawsuit has been filed against a fitness center chain after a 62-year-old Oregon man collapsed and died while running on a treadmill. The Oregonian/OregonLive reported the lawsuit filed last week in Oregon by...
Metals Financing Fraud Lawsuits Reveal Risks of Relying on Paper Receipts
Jan 28 2019 // When the man running one of London’s biggest metals brokerages found a new client who wanted to finance large volumes of nickel held in warehouses in Asia, he thought the deal promised major rewards. Less than a year...
Sometimes Bad Things Happen in Sports That Lawsuits Can’t Remedy: Viewpoint
Jan 25 2019 // Oh, but we live in sour times. Next month’s Super Bowl will feature the Most Hated Team in Football against an opponent who got there because of the Worst Call in Playoff History. Of the hatred I have nothing at...
