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Michigan Oral Surgery Practice to Pay $47K to Settle Age Discrimination Suit
Mar 22 2018 // A Southfield, Mich.-based oral surgery practice will pay $47,000 to settle an age discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced. The EEOC’s...
County in Utah Filed Suit Against Drugmakers, Doctors in Opioid Crisis
Mar 22 2018 // Officials of a northern Utah county are suing drug manufacturers, distributors and doctors in an effort to mitigate the consequences of the nation’s opioid crisis. Summit County has filed a lawsuit in state district...
Women Sue Utah City, Former Chief Over Misconduct Allegations
Mar 22 2018 // Five women claimed in a lawsuit that the city of Provo, Utah and former Mayor John Curtis failed to take action to protect them from alleged sexual harassment and assault by the city’s former police chief. The city...
California Jury Awards $2.3M to Former Pitcher in Hand Injury Lawsuit
Mar 22 2018 // A Northern California jury has awarded $2.3 million to a former Major League Baseball pitcher injured after confronting a man high on LSD trying to break into his home. Greg Reynold’s attorney, Niall McCarthy, says a...
Lawyer: Ex-Kansas VA Worker Subject of Nearly 100 Sex Abuse Lawsuits
Mar 21 2018 // The number of lawsuits accusing a former physician assistant at a Veteran’s Administration hospital in Kansas of sexual abuse is approaching 100. The Wichita Eagle reports that Kansas City attorneys Dan Curry and...
Parent of Utah Child with Down Syndrome Suing Boy Scouts
Mar 21 2018 // The father of a boy who has Down syndrome is suing the Boys Scouts of America for blocking his son from becoming an Eagle scout and revoking his merit badges. Logan Blythe has been a scout through the National Parks...
Agency Best Practices for Avoiding, Rather Than Winning, E&O Suits
Mar 21 2018 // Insurance agents and brokers have long been targets of error and omission lawsuits. It’s also true that most agents and brokers have sought advice of counsel as to how to win a lawsuit. They will often be told that...
Big Oil to Face Questions on Climate Change as Cities’ Abatement Lawsuit Proceeds
Mar 21 2018 // Five of the world’s biggest energy producers will be questioned by a federal judge on Wednesday about climate change science, part of a lawsuit that accuses the companies of misleading the public for years about...
Judge Says President Trump Not Immune to Defamation Suit Over ‘Unofficial Conduct’
Mar 21 2018 // A New York state judge on Tuesday said U.S. President Donald Trump must face a defamation lawsuit by a woman who accused him of sexually harassing her after she appeared on his former reality TV show. The decision by...
Liability and Legal Questions Follow Uber Autonomous Car Fatal Accident
Mar 20 2018 // The death of a pedestrian hit by a self-driving Uber vehicle in Arizona this week could offer a test of who can be held legally responsible for accidents when a human is no longer at the wheel, legal experts said. Any...
11 More West Virginia Towns, Counties Sue Over Opioid Crisis
Mar 20 2018 // Eleven additional local West Virginia governments are suing drug companies who they say failed to follow state and federal law to prevent the distribution and abuse of prescription pain medication that’s created the...
Title Insurer Amrock’s Lawsuit Backfires to Tune of $706M
Mar 19 2018 // An affiliate of mortgage-lending firm Quicken Loans Inc. filed a fraud suit to back out of a software deal with a housing data-analytics firm, serving the complaint at a trade show in front of the startup’s customers...
Massachusetts Court: Merck Can Be Sued Over Generic Drug Injury
Mar 19 2018 // Massachusetts’ top court on Friday opened the door for consumers to sue Merck & Co Inc and other makers of brand-name drugs over injuries blamed not on their own medications but on generic versions of their...
For U.S. Doctors, Being Sued Is Common Ailment
Mar 19 2018 // Getting sued is not an uncommon event for physicians. More than a third of physicians (34 percent) have had a claim filed against them at some point in their careers. Also, according to research from the American Medical...
Oklahoma County to Pay $6M in Suit Over Killing of Unarmed Black Man
Mar 19 2018 // An Oklahoma county will pay $6 million to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by the family of an unarmed black man who was fatally shot by a white former sheriff’s reserve deputy, according to court...
Barred Video Leads Texas High Court to Toss Finding in Workers’ Comp Suit
Mar 19 2018 // Disagreeing with the decision of a lower court to exclude, without having watched it, a company’s surveillance video of an injured employee in a workers’ compensation case, the Texas Supreme Court reversed the...
3rd Wrongful Death Suit Filed Over Oklahoma Gas Rig Explosion
Mar 16 2018 // A third wrongful death lawsuit has been filed over a natural gas rig explosion in Oklahoma that killed five workers. Julie Smith of McAlester, widow of Matthew Smith, filed the lawsuit Wednesday. The widows of Roger...
Survivor of South Dakota Building Collapse Sues Developer, Construction Company
Mar 16 2018 // A woman who survived beneath rubble for hours after a 2016 building collapse in Sioux Falls is suing the developer and construction company. Emily Fodness was sleeping in an apartment above the Copper Lounge in December...
Harper Lee Estate Sues Over ‘Mockingbird’ Broadway Version
Mar 16 2018 // The estate of “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee has filed suit over an upcoming Broadway adaptation of the novel, arguing that screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s script wrongly alters Atticus Finch and...
Microsoft Internal Findings Say Gender Bias at Washington Tech Giant Rarely Founded
Mar 16 2018 // Microsoft Corp.’s investigators concluded that fewer than 1 percent of gender-discrimination complaints made internally were “founded,” according to data unsealed in an ongoing class-action lawsuit. The...
