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$1 Billion San Francisco Tower’s Revival Clouded by Lawsuit
Sep 13 2024 // One of San Francisco’s most iconic buildings is celebrating its reopening after a four-year, $250 million makeover meant to symbolize the city’s renewal. It’s doing so under the shadow of a lawsuit from...
Maryland Supreme Court Hears Child Sex Abuse Lawsuit Arguments
Sep 13 2024 // The Supreme Court of Maryland heard arguments on Tuesday about the constitutionality of a 2023 law that ended the state’s statute of limitations for child sexual abuse lawsuits following a report that exposed...
New Mexico Attorney General Files Suit Against Snapchat
Sep 12 2024 // New Mexico’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit against the company behind Snapchat, alleging that site’s design and policies foster the sharing of child sexual abuse material and facilitate child sexual...
Hospital to Pay $65M to End Suit Over Cyberattack That Exposed Patients’ Nude Photos
Sep 12 2024 // Lehigh Valley Health Network has agreed to a $65 million settlement of a class action with patients and employees affected by a 2023 ransomware attack that exposed personal and medical information including nude photos of...
Study Stirs Debate on Real Impact of Litigation, Fraud on Property Insurance
Sep 12 2024 // An academic paper published in the Journal of Insurance Regulation seems to have rekindled the debate over how much of an impact litigation and fraud have had on property insurance losses and premiums, particularly in...
Women Settle Lawsuits With Yale Fertility Clinic Over Nurse Who Stole Their Painkillers
Sep 11 2024 // Dozens of women who say they suffered excruciating pain at a Yale University fertility clinic because a nurse stole fentanyl for her own use and replaced it with saline have settled their lawsuits against the Ivy League...
Trojan Condoms Contain ‘Forever Chemicals,’ Lawsuit Claims
Sep 10 2024 // A new lawsuit on Monday claims that Trojan condoms are not safe because they contain toxic “forever chemicals,” which have been linked to cancer. In a proposed class action filed in Manhattan federal court, the...
Red Lobster Landlord Sues Insurer to ‘Clawback’ $1.2M Fire Claim Payment
Sep 10 2024 // The landlord for a fire-damaged building leased to a Red Lobster restaurant is blaming the restaurant’s insurer for causing it to lose out on $1.2 million in fire insurance claims payments to repair the property. RL...
Update: Baltimore Reaches Opioid Litigation Settlements with Teva and Walgreens
Sep 10 2024 // Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott announced yesterday that one week before a trial is to begin, the city reached an $80 million settlement with Teva Pharmaceuticals to resolve the city’s claims over the firm’s...
FedEx Sued for Violating Federal Law by Discriminating Against Minnesota Driver
Sep 9 2024 // The Federal Express Corporation (FedEx) violated federal law when it failed to provide reasonable accommodations for qualified, disabled ramp transport drivers with medical restrictions, and instead forced them to take...
New Mississippi Lawsuit Names Pharmacy Benefits Managers for Opioid Epidemic
Sep 6 2024 // JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The state of Mississippi is suing drug manufacturers and pharmacy benefit managers alleging that opioids were over-prescribed. Attorney General Lynn Fitch, a Republican, filed the suit Thursday in...
Amazon Challenges Labor Board’s Structure in Lawsuit Over Union Election
Sep 6 2024 // Amazon.com sued a U.S. labor board on Thursday, accusing it of illegally interfering in a union election at a New York City warehouse and claiming the agency’s structure violates the U.S. Constitution. The lawsuit...
Dish Network in Talks With Investors to Settle Lawsuit
Sep 6 2024 // Dish Network Corp., the ailing satellite-TV provider with more than $20 billion in debt, is in talks with a group of creditors to resolve a lawsuit tied to a controversial transfer of assets. A meeting between the company...
Hershey Attacks Lawsuits Targeting Product Packaging, Seeks to End Reese’s Case
Sep 6 2024 // Hershey urged a U.S. judge to dismiss a lawsuit claiming it misled consumers about several Reese’s peanut butter candies, using its request to level a broadside against what it considers baseless class action...
AGs Sue 3 Gun Shops Over Alleged ‘Straw Purchases’ of Weapons Trafficked Into DC
Sep 6 2024 // Three gun shops that sold nearly three dozen firearms to a man who trafficked the weapons in and around Washington, D.C. are facing a new lawsuit jointly filed Tuesday by attorneys general for Maryland and the...
Oregon Hospital Sued for $303M; Nurse Accused of Replacing Fentanyl With Tap Water
Sep 5 2024 // Attorneys representing both living and deceased patients of an Oregon hospital filed a $303 million lawsuit against the facility after a nurse was accused of replacing prescribed fentanyl with nonsterile tap water in...
UGA Fatal Crash Survivor Settles Lawsuit With Athletic Association
Sep 5 2024 // ATLANTA (AP) — A former University of Georgia recruiting analyst who was severely injured in a deadly car crash has settled her lawsuit against the school’s athletic association nearly two years after the...
Underwriters Wary of PFAS Amid ‘Superstorm’ of Litigation, Regulation
Sep 5 2024 // As litigation and regulation increase around per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), insurance underwriting is tightening across lines. Insurance professionals who specialize in PFAS say insurers are mandating coverage...
Judge Says X Must Face Class Action Age Bias Claims Over Mass Layoff
Sep 5 2024 // A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that roughly 150 older workers who were laid off by social media platform X when Elon Musk acquired the company can sue for age discrimination as a class, exposing the company to...
University Student Sues Sorority and Landlord Over Fall From Window
Sep 4 2024 // A Northeastern University student and her parents are suing a sorority, its chapter president and a landlord after the student fell from a window and suffered critical injuries at a party. Sarah Cox, then a junior at the...
