Latest Lawsuits Headlines
All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oil Companies Ask Judge to Kill NYC’s Global Warming Lawsuit
May 9 2018 // Five of the world’s biggest oil companies asked a judge to throw out New York City’s lawsuit seeking to hold them responsible for costs related to the environmental changes caused by their products. BP Plc,...
Chicago Auto Dealer to Settle Sex Orientation, Disability Discrimination Suit for $100K
May 8 2018 // Chicago car dealership Evergreen Kia will pay $100,000 and provide other relief to settle a sexual orientation and disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the...
Weinstein Sues Chubb Seeking Legal Defense Coverage in 11 Sex Harassment Suits
May 8 2018 // Film producer Harvey Weinstein is fighting back against personal indemnity insurer Chubb Ltd., saying Chubb must pay for his legal defense against 11 lawsuits that accuse him of sexually harassing or assaulting women over...
NRA Sues Insurance Broker Lockton Over ‘Carry Guard’
May 7 2018 // The National Rifle Association is suing Lockton Cos., alleging the insurance broker breached its contract with the firearms lobbying group. Lockton administered the NRA’s Carry Guard insurance program, which was...
North Dakota Tribes Sue Opioid Industry Groups
May 7 2018 // The Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and the Spirit Lake Sioux are the latest North Dakota American Indian tribes to sue opioid manufacturers and distributors. The Bismarck Tribune reports the tribes sued 24 opioid...
California Grocer Facing Lawsuit over No-Spanish Language Policy
May 7 2018 // A grocery store in San Diego, Calif. subjected Hispanic employees to harassment and a hostile work environment by implementing a no-Spanish language policy, federal officials said in a lawsuit. The U.S. Equal Employment...
Wells Fargo to Pay $480M to Settle Investors’ Suit Over Fake Accounts
May 7 2018 // Wells Fargo & Co. agreed to pay $480 million to settle a class-action lawsuit in which investors accused the bank of securities fraud related to its fake-account scandal. The settlement resolves the main class-action...
Idaho Supreme Court Sends Slip-and-Fall Suit Against Walmart Back to Lower Court
May 7 2018 // The Idaho Supreme Court has ruled that a lower court must once again review a slip-and-fall lawsuit against Walmart. Diane Brooks sued the retail giant for negligence in November 2014 after slipping and falling in a puddle...
Declarations
May 7 2018 // No Liability Protection “(The law) does not protect a website operator from liability that arises from its own conduct in facilitating user activity, as is the case here.” — Wisconsin’s 1st District...
Court Reinstates Lawsuit Against Website in Wisconsin Spa Shooting Case
May 7 2018 // A state appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit against operators of a website that facilitated the purchases of a gun used in a mass shooting in suburban Milwaukee, Wisconsin, five years ago. Radcliffe Haughton killed his...
Drugmakers Balk at Funding Opioid Epidemic Fix; Counting on Court Wins
May 4 2018 // Drug companies are in no rush to finance a solution to the opioid epidemic. Companies including Johnson & Johnson and McKesson Corp. are preparing to take their chances in court rather than pay billions of dollars to...
Jury Awards Missouri Man $5M in Lawsuit Against BNSF
May 3 2018 // A southwest Missouri man who was injured twice at the BNSF Railway Co. rail yard in Springfield has been awarded more than $5 million in damages. A Greene County jury found for former conductor James Mitchell last week...
Texas-Based Karolyis, Others Sued by Gymnast Over Team Doctor’s Abuse
May 3 2018 // A former member of the U.S. national team on became the latest gymnast to file suit over sexual abuse by imprisoned former sports doctor Larry Nassar’s, alleging USA Gymnastics, the U.S. Olympic Committee and the...
Climate Change Suit Filed by Alaska Youth Heads To Court
May 3 2018 // The state has argued in court that a climate change lawsuit filed by 16 young Alaska residents should be thrown out because climate policies must be decided by the state Legislature and the executive branch, not the...
School District Settles Negligence Suit With Massachusetts Family
May 3 2018 // A Massachusetts family whose 5-year-old special needs daughter was left stranded for hours on a cold school bus has settled a lawsuit against the school district. A lawyer for the Gloucester family told The Gloucester...
Lawsuits Seek to Hold Opioid Makers Responsible for Insurance Premium Hikes
May 3 2018 // Makers and distributors of the prescription opioids that triggered a U.S. public health crisis are responsible for a rise in health insurance premiums, according to first-of-their-kind lawsuits filed in five states. The...
Father of Parkland Shooting Victim Sues Deputy Who Didn’t Enter School
May 3 2018 // The father of a student killed in a mass shooting at a Florida high school is suing the armed officer who stood outside the building as people were massacred within. Meadow Pollack was among the 17 killed on...
Facebook Loses Bid to Delay EU Data Privacy Suit
May 2 2018 // Ireland’s High Court has refused a request by Facebook to delay referral to Europe’s top court of a landmark privacy case that could strike down legal instruments used by U.S. tech companies to transfer EU...
Instructor Sues Oregon University over Racial Discrimination
May 2 2018 // An instructor has filed a lawsuit against Northwest Christian University in Eugene, Ore. alleging the school wrongly fired him while he was on medical leave because of work-related stress. The Register-Guard reports Johnny...
California Supplement Seller to Settle Pregnancy Discrimination Suit
May 2 2018 // Tarr Inc. and Zenith LLC, a San Diego Calif.-based company that sells dietary supplements, will pay $50,000 and provide other relief to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment...
