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Vermont Sues Opioid Drugmaker Over Marketing Practices
Sep 7 2018 // Vermont on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against drugmaker Purdue over what it called deceptive marketing of OxyContin and other prescription opioid painkillers that the attorney general says helped lead to the drug crisis in...
As NFL Season Kicks Off, Court Reopens Ex-Players’ Painkiller Abuse Suit
Sep 7 2018 // Former National Football League players who claim they suffered permanent damage, addiction or other harm from being routinely given opioids and painkillers to keep them on the field had their lawsuit against league...
Mississippi Woman Awarded $2M in Lawsuit Against OB-GYN Over Ruptured Uterus
Sep 7 2018 // A Mississippi woman whose uterus ruptured during childbirth has been awarded more than $2 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit against an OB-GYN. The Columbus Dispatch reports a jury awarded Talanda Blevins the funds...
Family of Man Shot at Texas Warehouse Files $25M Suit Against Employer
Sep 6 2018 // The family of a man who was killed in August in a shooting at a Houston-area food warehouse has filed a lawsuit asking for $25 million in damages from his employer. The lawsuit was filed in state civil court in Houston by...
Republican States’ Court Fight to End Obamacare Begins as Midterm Politics Heat Up
Sep 6 2018 // A Republican-led lawsuit seeking to nullify Obamacare will be spotlighted in court in the final months of congressional election campaigns, giving Democrats political fodder and sending GOP candidates in competitive races...
Roy Moore Files $95M Defamation Suit Against CBS, Comedian Cohen
Sep 6 2018 // Roy Moore, the former U.S. Senate candidate from Alabama, on Wednesday filed a $95 million defamation lawsuit against Sacha Baron Cohen, claiming he was duped into appearing on the British comedian’s Showtime series...
Couple Sues Utility Over Fatal Nebraska Blast That Destroyed Houses
Sep 5 2018 // A couple whose Omaha, Nebraska, house was destroyed by an explosion next door are suing the Metropolitan Utilities District. The Omaha World-Herald reports that the lawsuit by John and Jamie Myers says the district should...
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...
