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More States File Opioid Lawsuits Against Drug Firms
May 16 2018 // Litigation against OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP is intensifying as six more U.S. states on Tuesday announced lawsuits, accusing the company of fueling a national opioid epidemic by deceptively marketing its...
Man Struck, Dragged by Bus Settles Lawsuit with New Jersey Transit for $2.3M
May 16 2018 // A New Jersey man who was struck by a bus and dragged for nearly two miles has settled his lawsuit with New Jersey Transit for $2.3 million. A lawyer for the firm that handled 63-year-old Seres Arpad’s case confirmed...
Suit Charges Energy Company Cut Safety Budget Before Fatal Colorado Blast
May 14 2018 // A shareholder lawsuit alleges Anadarko Petroleum was focused on keeping oil and gas flowing from older wells, not fixing potential safety problems, in the months before a fatal house explosion in Colorado linked to an...
NRA Sues New York, Alleging First Amendment Violations in Insurance Crackdown
May 11 2018 // The National Rifle Association (NRA) has filed a lawsuit against New York’s insurance regulator and Governor Andrew Cuomo, alleging a regulatory overreach by New York officials that has resulted in violations of the...
California Lawsuits Challenging Contractor Model for Lyft, Postmates
May 10 2018 // Ridesharing service Lyft Inc. and courier service Postmates Inc. are among the first companies to be sued for improperly treating workers in California as independent contractors following a recent decision that makes it...
NRA Should Name Teens in Suit Over New Florida Gun Law, State Says
May 10 2018 // The National Rifle Association failed to provide evidence that two 19-year-olds who wish to join in the group’s lawsuit over Florida’s new gun-control law would have their privacy violated or be put at risk of...
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...
