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Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sues Governor Over $8M Fund Transfer
Jul 25 2018 // The Kansas insurance commissioner seeking the Republican gubernatorial nomination is trying to prevent Gov. Jeff Colyer from taking $8 million this year from a state insurance fund. Ken Selzer has filed a lawsuit seeking a...
Lyft Faces Patent Suit by Professor Over Ridesharing Model
Jul 25 2018 // A retired Georgia Institute of Technology engineering professor described as a “pioneer” in developing the idea of ride sharing sued Lyft Inc., claiming it infringed his patent for technology underlying the...
Texas Energy Services Firm to Pay $39K in North Dakota Racial Harassment Suit
Jul 24 2018 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says a Texas-based oilfield service company operating in North Dakota will pay $39,900 to settle a racial harassment lawsuit. The EEOC’s lawsuit accused Cudd Energy...
The Legal Engine Driving More Than 800 Lawsuits Against Opioid Makers
Jul 24 2018 // The place might sound familiar, even if you’ve never been there: the Appalachian foothills, down by the Ohio River, where the sirens scream addiction and death. Twenty-six overdoses in one afternoon. The highest...
$750K Settlement in Utah Sexual Misconduct Suit
Jul 23 2018 // The city of Provo, Utah has reached a $750,000 settlement with five women who say it failed to take action to protect them from alleged sexual harassment and assault by a former police chief. Mayor Michelle Kaufusi said in...
Hawaii Jury Sides with Couple in Disability Discrimination Suit
Jul 23 2018 // A jury in Hawaii has sided with a Maui couple in a $1.9 million disability discrimination lawsuit against their condo association which fined them thousands of dollars for uncarpeted floors and attempted to sell their unit...
Baltimore Lawsuit Blames Oil and Gas Companies for Climate Change
Jul 23 2018 // The city of Baltimore filed a lawsuit on Friday against 26 oil and gas companies and entities, including BP Plc, Chevron Corp and Exxon Mobil Corp, for knowingly contributing to what the city called the catastrophic...
Bayer to Discontinue Sales of Essure Birth Control Device as U.S. Lawsuits Mount
Jul 23 2018 // The maker of a permanent contraceptive implant subject to thousands of injury reports and repeated safety restrictions by regulators said Friday that it will stop selling the device in the U.S., the only country where it...
Court Allows Trial in Children’s Lawsuit Against U.S. Over Climate Change
Jul 23 2018 // A federal appeals court in San Francisco on Friday rejected the Trump administration’s renewed bid to dismiss a lawsuit by young activists who say the U.S. government is ignoring the perils of climate change. By a...
New York’s Global Warming Suit Against Oil Companies Tossed
Jul 20 2018 // A U.S. judge threw out New York’s lawsuit seeking to hold five of the world’s biggest oil companies financially responsible for contributing to climate change. U.S. District Judge John Keenan dismissed the...
Drug Firms Sue Illegal Web Sites for Opioid Crisis
Jul 20 2018 // Two pharmaceutical companies say the real culprits in the opioids epidemic are illegal dealers of the painkillers and want them to be on the hook financially for any damages potentially assessed against drugmakers. Endo...
7th Lawsuit Against Opioid Makers Filed by Kentucky AG
Jul 20 2018 // The company’s website claimed its product would “enable patients to stay in the workplace, enjoy interaction with family and friends and remain a member of society.” But Kentucky’s Attorney General...
MGM Facing Boycott for Suing Las Vegas Shooting Victims
Jul 19 2018 // It took just minutes for the hashtag #BoycottMGMResorts to appear on Twitter, and for people to declare they would no longer patronize the largest casino owner on the Las Vegas Strip. “Was going to stay in November...
How the Florida Insurance Industry Hopes to Rein In AOB Crisis
Jul 19 2018 // “I think the number one thing the insurance industry can do is link AOB (assignment of benefits) to the impact that it’s having on the individual consumer and the huge impact it’s having on the premiums...
Doctors Sue Anthem Over Denial of Emergency Room Charges
Jul 18 2018 // The health insurer Anthem Inc. was sued by doctors in Georgia for declining to pay for some emergency-room care, escalating a long-running battle over how far insurance plans can go to push patients to seek lower-cost...
MGM Files Suit to Limit Liability for Las Vegas Shooting
Jul 18 2018 // MGM Resorts International sued the victims of a Las Vegas music festival mass shooting in an effort to block any potential compensation claims against it. The owner of the Mandalay Bay hotel claims a 2002 federal statute...
Ford to Pay Consumers $299 Million to Settle Takata Airbag Lawsuit
Jul 18 2018 // Ford Motor Co. has agreed to pay $299.1 million to settle consumers’ economic-loss claims connected to Takata Corp. air-bag recalls. The settlement, filed in federal court in Miami Monday, reimburses consumers for...
Mueller Industries Settles Disability Discrimination Suit in California for $1M
Jul 17 2018 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has settled a disability discrimination lawsuit in California against a global metal goods manufacturer Mueller Industries Inc. for $1 million and other injunctive...
Baylor in Texas Settles Suit with Woman Who Accused Players of Rape
Jul 17 2018 // Baylor University has settled a federal Title IX lawsuit brought by a former volleyball player who alleged that she was drugged and gang raped by at least four football players in 2012. Terms of last week’s...
Michigan Governor Wants to Sue 3M for Costs of Contamination
Jul 16 2018 // Gov. Rick Snyder wants Michigan to sue the manufacturer of chemicals linked to contaminated water detected at military bases and industrial sites across the state. Snyder wrote a letter to Attorney General Bill Schuette...
