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Vermont City Pays $215K to Settle Lawsuit Accusing Officer of Excessive Force
Sep 23 2024 // Vermont’s largest city of Burlington has paid $215,000 to settle a lawsuit accusing a police officer of using excessive force by grabbing a man and slamming him to the ground, knocking him unconscious in September of...
Families of Construction Workers Killed in Baltimore Bridge Collapse to Sue
Sep 19 2024 // Families of immigrant construction workers killed when Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed after it was hit by the cargo ship Dali plan to challenge the attempt by the ship owner and operator to limit...
Michigan Home Health Care Service Provider to Pay $65K Over Disability Suit
Sep 19 2024 // Alternate Solutions Health Network, LLC, and its affiliated entity Beaumont ASHN, LLC, (collectively ASHN), providers of home health care services, will pay $65,000 and furnish other relief to resolve a disability...
Environmental Group Sues Tyson Foods for Alleged False Climate Claims
Sep 19 2024 // An environmental group is suing Tyson Foods for allegedly misleading consumers by saying it will reach net-zero emissions by 2050 and marketing climate-friendly beef without meaningful plans to achieve those goals. The...
US Sues Ship Owner, Operator Over Baltimore Bridge Collapse
Sep 18 2024 // The US sued the owner and the operator of a Singapore-flagged ship that rammed into a Baltimore bridge in March, the most aggressive action to date in response to a disaster that killed six workers and threw the...
Appeals Court Spikes Brett Favre’s Defamation Suit Against Shannon Sharpe
Sep 18 2024 // NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court has refused Monday to revive a defamation lawsuit that former NFL quarterback Brett Favre filed against a fellow Pro Football Hall of Fame member — former tight end Shannon...
Oracle To Pay $115M To Settle Suit Over Tracking Consumer Data
Sep 18 2024 // Tech behemoth Oracle has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit for $115 million over allegations that it tracked consumer activity both on and offline. The suit alleges Oracle captured, compiled, and sold...
Bump in Federal Trade Secret Litigation Seen in 2023: Report
Sep 18 2024 // Analytics from Lex Machina 2024 Trade Secret Litigation Report reveals a rise in trade secret cases filed in federal district court in 2023, along with the continued steady trend of trade secret cases that involved Defend...
Iowa and Iowa State Athletes Join Civil Lawsuit Over State Gambling Sting
Sep 17 2024 // DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Ten more Iowa and Iowa State athletes and an Iowa basketball equipment manager ensnared in a 2023 state gambling sting joined a civil lawsuit Tuesday seeking unspecified monetary damages from the...
Cigna Sues Federal Trade Commission Over ‘Defamatory’ Report
Sep 17 2024 // Cigna Group’s Express Scripts sued the US Federal Trade Commission over a recent report that the company said demonizes pharmacy benefit managers and asked the court to order the agency to retract it. The lawsuit...
Russia’s RusChemAlliance Sues 5 European Banks Over Aborted Gas Project
Sep 17 2024 // Russian company RusChemAlliance has filed new lawsuits against five European banks that stopped financing the construction of a gas project in Russia after the West imposed sanctions against Moscow over the 2022 invasion...
Big Oil Companies Defeat Consumer Lawsuit Over Production, Prices
Sep 17 2024 // Several oil companies including Exxon Mobil and Chevron defeated an appeal on Monday by consumers who accused them of colluding with former U.S. President Donald Trump, Russia and Saudi Arabia to cut oil production,...
DraftKings Sued by MLB Players Union for Using Names, Images
Sep 17 2024 // Sports-betting platform DraftKings Inc. has been using names and images of Major League Baseball players without permission and in violation of Pennsylvania law, their union alleged in a lawsuit. Boston-based DraftKings...
Real Estate Firm’s D&O Not Available for Defense in RealPage Antitrust Lawsuit
Sep 17 2024 // A property management firm’s excess insurers are not obligated to defend it in multi-district price-fixing litigation involving use of the real estate software RealPage. A federal district judge in Massachusetts...
Michigan Company Sued for Violating Federal Law on Employee Accommodations
Sep 16 2024 // PACE Southeast Michigan, a company providing all-inclusive care for the elderly, violated federal law at multiple locations in the Detroit area by failing to provide reasonable accommodations to employees with disabilities...
D&O Market in ‘State of Transition’ on Litigation Trends: Woodruff Sawyer
Sep 16 2024 // It looks like the market for directors and officers insurance is shifting, according to Woodruff Sawyer, with the number of renewals seeing flat or price increases for the first time in 18 months. Though 83% of its clients...
Former UPS Driver Wins $238 Million Verdict in Suit Over Firing
Sep 16 2024 // A Black UPS driver won a $237.6 million jury verdict in a case in which he alleged he’d been discriminated against and subject to a hostile work environment before being fired. The verdict, rendered Thursday in the...
23andMe Settles Data Breach Lawsuit for $30 Million
Sep 16 2024 // 23andMe will pay $30 million and provide three years of security monitoring to settle a lawsuit accusing the genetics testing company of failing to protect the privacy of 6.9 million customers whose personal information...
Pittsburgh Offers $500,000 to Settle Bridge Collapse Lawsuits
Sep 16 2024 // The city of Pittsburgh is seeking approval of a half-million-dollar payment to settle lawsuits over the collapse of a bridge into a ravine more than 2 1/2 years ago. Deputy Mayor Jake Pawlak said Friday he had asked the...
Venture Capital Fund Ends Grant Program for Black Women After Lawsuit
Sep 13 2024 // An Atlanta-based venture capital fund on Wednesday agreed to stop operating a program that awarded grants to small businesses run by Black women to settle a lawsuit by an anti-affirmative action group that claimed it...
