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JPMorgan Settles Black Advisers’ Job Bias Lawsuit for $24 Million
Sep 5 2018 // As racial diversity tumbles on Wall Street, JPMorgan Chase & Co. has reached a settlement with financial advisers who say they were treated poorly because they’re black. Six current and former employees at the...
State Farm Agrees to Pay $250 Million, Avoids Racketeering Trial
Sep 4 2018 // State Farm agreed to pay $250 million on the brink of a trial to customers who claimed the company tried to rig the Illinois justice system to wipe out a $1 billion jury verdict from 19 years ago. The customers were...
Missouri AG Sues Over Deadly Duck Boat Sinking
Sep 4 2018 // Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley on Aug. 31 sued the owners and operators of a tourist boat that sank in a Missouri lake, killing 17 people, alleging that the companies violated the state’s consumer protection...
Judge Tosses Uber Investors’ Class Action Bid Over Stock Losses
Sep 4 2018 // Uber Technologies Inc. and its former Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick defeated a lawsuit claiming the company swept illicit business practices under the rug that cost investors billions of dollars. U.S. District...
Max Services, Wetzel Associates Offer ‘Conversational’ Commerce Suite
Sep 4 2018 // Max Services Inc. and Thomas H. Wetzel & Associates have partnered with LivePerson, a provider of conversational commerce products, to provide insurers and agents with an enterprise-level option to communicate with...
Mass. SJC Says Hospital Does Not Have Duty of Care in Former Patient’s Stabbing Suit
Sep 3 2018 // The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that Steward Carney Hospital does not have a duty of care after a patient released from an involuntary psychiatric commitment fatally stabbed his neighbor. The court found...
Boeing Sued Over Contamination of Washington River
Sep 3 2018 // A new lawsuit says the Boeing aircraft company is poisoning the Duwamish River by pumping out pollution that is far and away above the legal limit. Environmental groups Puget Soundkeeper and Waste Action Project say the...
Proper Insurance Coverage for Construction Crucial in Avoiding Costly Litigation
Sep 3 2018 // If residential property owners don’t confirm proper insurance coverage and carefully consider labor laws when hiring contractors, they could be in for some costly litigation, according to two speakers at a July...
Mississippi Supreme Court Says Privacy Suit Against Google Can Continue
Sep 3 2018 // Mississippi’s Supreme Court says a state lawsuit against Google alleging violations of student privacy should stay in a northeast Mississippi court. The court voted 6-2 Aug. 9 to deny an appeal by the unit of...
Lawsuit Planned Against Brad Pitt Foundation over New Orleans Homes
Aug 31 2018 // An attorney plans to sue actor Brad Pitt’s foundation over the degradation of homes built in an area of New Orleans that was among the hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina. The forthcoming lawsuit against Pitt’s...
Prosecutors: Possible Negligence in Missouri Duck Boat Sinking
Aug 31 2018 // The U.S. Coast Guard has found probable cause that the sinking of a tourist boat on a Missouri lake last month that killed 17 people “resulted from the misconduct, negligence, or inattention to the duties” by...
Shareholder Suit Alleges Pizza Chain Papa John’s Hid Executives’ Misbehavior
Aug 31 2018 // Papa John’s International Inc. founder John Schnatter will be questioned by the pizza chain’s lawyers about his demand for internal files related to directors’ handling of his ouster from the...
EEOC Sues California Restaurant Chain Preferred Hiring Females Over Males
Aug 30 2018 // Burgers & Beer, a chain of Southern California restaurants, violated federal law when it denied males with the same employment opportunities as their female counterparts, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
Lawsuit Against Connecticut Bar Seeks More Than $50K in Damages After Fatal Crash
Aug 29 2018 // Relatives of a Waterbury, Conn., man who died in a car crash that also killed the wife of longtime ESPN broadcaster Chris Berman has filed a lawsuit against a Connecticut restaurant. A lawyer for the restaurant declined...
Litigation Financing Emerges as Alternative Asset Class for Wealthy Investors
Aug 29 2018 // When shares of AMP Ltd. plunged earlier this year after the firm was engulfed in a fee-for-no-service scandal, the Australian wealth manager was hit within weeks by the first of five separate class action lawsuits. It...
Louisiana Company to Pay $165K Resolve Disability Discrimination Suit
Aug 27 2018 // An Allemands, Louisiana-based provider of marine transportation services will pay $165,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The EEOC said...
In Suit, Kansas Woman Blames Crash on ‘Pokemon Go’
Aug 27 2018 // A Kansas woman alleges in a lawsuit that she was struck and injured by a driver playing “Pokemon Go” not long after the game’s release. The Wichita Eagle reports that Angeligue Farris is seeking more than...
Airbnb Sues New York City to Block User-Data Bill Over Privacy
Aug 27 2018 // Home-rental providers Airbnb Inc. and HomeAway are suing New York City over a recently passed law that allows the collection of data on the websites’ hosts, claiming the ordinance violates users’ constitutional...
South Carolina Supreme Court Appoints Judge to Manage Opioid Lawsuits
Aug 27 2018 // South Carolina’s high court has appointed a single judge to handle any lawsuits related to opioids in the state system. On Thursday, the state Supreme Court assigned Circuit Court Judge Perry Gravely to the task....
Detroit Mayor, 8 Motorists Sue Insurance Commissioner Over Michigan’s No Fault Law
Aug 24 2018 // Asserting that Michigan’s no fault auto insurance law is unfair to the poor, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court, seeking to have the 45-year-old law declared unconstitutional. The suit...
