Latest Lawsuits Headlines
All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Law’s Ambiguity a Source of Mixed Messages Over Texas Cat Claims Statute
Aug 30 2017 // Ambiguity surrounding a Texas law that goes into effect on Sept. 1 has insurance industry representatives and attorneys who represent insurance policyholders sending conflicting messages to insureds who may have suffered...
North Carolina Residents File Suit to Halt Energy Co.’s Bid to Waive Legal Claims
Aug 28 2017 // Nine neighbors living near Duke Energy’s unlined coal ash pits want North Carolina courts to block the nation’s largest electric company from offering a $5,000 payment to neighbors that give up the option of...
South Carolina Private School Sued Over Disclosure of Private Student Medical Info
Aug 28 2017 // A parent has sued a South Carolina private school the same day the school sent out an email that included private medical information about 86 students. The lawsuit said an email Friday from the school nurse asking for...
Woman Suing Oregon Cremation Company for $2.5M over Ashes in Father’s Urn
Aug 25 2017 // A woman is suing an Oregon cremation company for $2.5 million, claiming it gave her the remains of a stranger instead of her deceased father. Kimberly Grecco, 53, discovered the remains were her not her father’s as...
Lawsuit: Pennsylvania Train That Crashed Also Overshot Previous Station
Aug 25 2017 // A man who was among dozens of people injured when a commuter train crashed at a suburban Philadelphia terminal is suing the rail company, claiming the train also blew past a previous station before the accident. Passenger...
Nestle’s ‘Natural’ Claims on Poland Springs Don’t Hold Water, Lawsuit Alleges
Aug 25 2017 // Nestle SA’s Poland Spring Water unit has duped American consumers into paying premium prices for ordinary ground water that’s pumped from some of Maine’s most populated areas, rather than from natural...
Dakota Access Pipeline Company Files $1B Suit Against Greenpeace, Other Groups
Aug 24 2017 // The company building the disputed Dakota Access oil pipeline filed a lawsuit against Greenpeace and other groups on Aug. 22, alleging that they disseminated false and misleading information about the project and interfered...
Family Settles Suit Against Perdue, Trucking Firm Over Virginia Crash
Aug 24 2017 // A family has settled a lawsuit against Perdue Farms and a trucking company over the death of an off-duty sheriff’s deputy whose tractor was struck by a semi-truck carrying chicken. The Virginian-Pilot reported...
West Virginia to Use $22M from Drug Distributor Suit for Addiction Treatment
Aug 24 2017 // West Virginia’s Department of Health and Human Resources says it will use $22 million in settlement money from drug distributors to help address the addiction epidemic in the state. Legislation passed this year...
Judge Dismisses Stockholders’ Suit Against Martha Stewart
Aug 24 2017 // A Delaware judge has dismissed a class-action lawsuit filed by former stockholders of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia over the company’s 2015 acquisition by Sequential Brands. The lawsuit said that Stewart leveraged...
Appeals Court Rules L.A. Lakers Not Entitled to Coverage in TCPA Suit
Aug 23 2017 // The U.S. Ninth Circuit court of Appeals affirmed Wednesday that the Los Angeles Lakers are not entitled to insurance coverage for class action allegations that the team violated the Telephone Consumer Protection...
New Lawsuit Filed Over Alleged Baylor Rape Policy Failures
Aug 23 2017 // A woman who reported that she’d been sexually assaulted filed a lawsuit on Aug. 21 against Baylor University, alleging questions she faced from the university shifted blame away from her attacker toward her. The...
How Civil Immunity Lawsuit Led to Limits on Taser Use: Reuters Report
Aug 23 2017 // One of the biggest commercial threats to Taser International’s signature weapon could come from a lawsuit the company won. Across the United States, wrongful death lawsuits involving Tasers have created a body of...
Australia’s CBA Threatened with Large Class Action over Money Laundering Charges
Aug 23 2017 // A law firm threatened on Wednesday to file a class action suit against Commonwealth Bank of Australia for allegedly failing to disclose that it was facing money-laundering charges, in the latest headache for...
Louisville Sues Drug Distributors Over Kentucky Opioid Epidemic
Aug 23 2017 // Officials in Kentucky’s largest city have filed suit in federal court against opioid distributors, accusing them of contributing to the drug epidemic in the state. Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer announced the lawsuit...
Los Angeles Jury Hands Down $417M Award Baby Powder Lawsuit
Aug 22 2017 // A Los Angeles jury has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay a record $417 million to a hospitalized woman who claimed in a lawsuit that the talc in the company’s iconic baby powder causes ovarian cancer when applied...
Russian Female Flight Attendant Sues Aeroflot for Discrimination
Aug 22 2017 // “Old, fat and ugly” is what Yevgeniya Magurina jokingly calls a group of flight attendants for Russia’s flagship airline Aeroflot who she claims have been sidelined in an apparent drive to make the cabin...
Taser Deaths Produce at Least 442 Lawsuits Against Police, Municipalities: Reuters
Aug 22 2017 // In a first-of-its-kind review of court documents, police reports, other public records and news accounts, Reuters compiled the most comprehensive public accounting to date of deaths and litigation that followed police use...
2 Nebraska Contractors Routinely Sue Insurers for Not Paying Storm Damage
Aug 21 2017 // Two Omaha contractors are expanding a legal strategy they say forces insurance companies to pay for storm damage, but industry officials say the practice leads to exaggerated claims and may drive away insurers. Home repair...
Woman Files Federal Lawsuit Over Delaware Pumpkin-Flinging Accident
Aug 21 2017 // A woman who was critically injured when an air cannon exploded during a Delaware pumpkin-launching competition has filed a federal lawsuit against event organizers and participants, state officials and Discovery...
