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Pennsylvania Court Rules in Favor of Evanston Insurance, Cites Policy Exclusion
Jan 5 2017 // The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in December ruled that Evanston Insurance Company is not obligated to defend Tri-Arc Financial Services Inc. in an underlying lawsuit because of an...
Ohio County Sued by Employees over 2015 Legionnaires’ Outbreak
Jan 3 2017 // Seven Lucas County, Ohio, employees who became sick after exposure to a rare form of Legionnaires’ bacteria have filed a lawsuit. The Blade newspaper reports that the lawsuit seeks damages from the county board of...
Tesla Owner in California Sues Tesla over Sudden Acceleration
Jan 3 2017 // Tesla Motors Inc. was sued by a Model X owner in California who said his electric SUV suddenly accelerated while being parked, causing it to crash through the garage into the owner’s living room, injuring the driver...
Kansas County Agrees to $48K Settlement in Discrimination Lawsuit
Dec 30 2016 // Commissioners in Kansas’ Shawnee County have agreed to pay a $48,000 settlement to two women who claimed they were wrongfully terminated from their jobs in the prosecutor’s office because of racial and gender...
Washington Lawsuit Says Special Needs Student Sexually Abused by 3 Students
Dec 30 2016 // A lawsuit has accused a Washington school district of failing to protect a female special needs student from a male special needs classmate who sexually abused her in 2012. The News Tribune reported the lawsuit was filed...
Top 10 ‘Most Ridiculous’ Lawsuits of 2016: Chamber of Commerce
Dec 30 2016 // Too much ice in an iced coffee? Too much lip balm left in the tube? Too much environmental damage from thousands of red balloons? Lawsuits complaining about those situations made this year’s list of unnecessary...
General Motors Sued over Fire Causing $450K in Damage to Pennsylvania Homes
Dec 30 2016 // General Motors has been sued over a 2014 car fire that caused more than $450,000 in damage to two central Pennsylvania homes. Pennlive.com reports that Erie Insurance Exchange and four of its policy holders claim the blaze...
Hospital That Treated Florida Toddler Who Swallowed Battery Sued by Family
Dec 30 2016 // A Florida family sued a hospital for malpractice on Wednesday, saying their baby suffered severe burns because it took too long to remove a coin-sized battery that she swallowed. Parents Cole Parsons and Courtney Thorne...
Family of New Jersey Train Crash Victim Files Notice of Intent to Sue
Dec 29 2016 // The family of a woman killed when a New Jersey Transit commuter train slammed into a station this year has filed notice of their intent to sue. Lawyers for Fabiola Bittar de Kroon’s family filed a claim for damages...
United Settles Lawsuit Over Safety Hazards at New Jersey Airport
Dec 29 2016 // United Continental Holdings Inc. will install new conveyor belts and take other steps to improve worker safety at its Newark Liberty International Airport hub in New Jersey, after federal inspectors found hazardous...
Kansas Mom’s Medical Pot Suit Dismissed by Federal Judge
Dec 29 2016 // A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a western Kansas woman against the state and several agencies after her son was removed from her home in 2015 when he told school officials she used marijuana. Shona Banda,...
West Virginia Settles Opioid Lawsuits Against 2 More Drug Distributors
Dec 29 2016 // Two major prescription drug distributors have agreed to settle a West Virginia lawsuit alleging they fueled West Virginia’s opioid epidemic with excessively large shipments of painkillers into the state over several...
Widow of Pilot Killed in Washington Crash Files Suit against Aircraft Companies
Dec 28 2016 // The wife of one of the men who died after a plane crashed into Washington’s Spokane River has filed a lawsuit against the companies that built and maintained the aircraft. The Spokesman-Review reported that...
Groups Suing Seattle over Voter-approved Hotel Workplace Safety Measure
Dec 28 2016 // Seattle is being sued over a voter-approved measure requiring new workplace protections for hotel workers. The American Hotel and Lodging Association, Washington Hospitality Association and Seattle Hotel Association say...
Ex-Players Drop Case to Force NFL to Pay Workers’ Compensation for Concussions
Dec 28 2016 // The federal court case brought by 38 former National Football League players seeking to force the NFL to recognize chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) as a covered disease under workers’ compensation has been...
Oregon Bystander Lawsuit Allowed to Proceed
Dec 27 2016 // The Oregon Supreme Court has allowed a lawsuit to proceed that was filed on behalf of two boys who witnessed their younger brother hit and killed by a pickup truck five years ago. The decision was a reversal of two lower...
Young Victim’s Family Brings First Suit in Deadly California Fire
Dec 27 2016 // The parents of a 20-year-old college student who died in the arms of her boyfriend in Oakland’s deadly warehouse fire filed the first lawsuit Friday in the disaster, blaming the building’s owner, chief tenant...
Halliburton Settles Securities Fraud Class Action for $100 Million
Dec 27 2016 // Halliburton Co. on Friday said it had reached a $100 million settlement to resolve a long-running securities fraud class action lawsuit against the oilfield services provider that twice reached the U.S. Supreme Court. The...
Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank Settle Subprime Mortgage Probes with U.S.
Dec 27 2016 // Deutsche Bank AG and Credit Suisse Group AG agreed to pay a combined $12.5 billion to resolve U.S. investigations into sales of the toxic debt that fueled the financial crisis, putting behind them a major dispute that...
University in Ohio Agrees to Settle Student’s Sex Discrimination Suit
Dec 22 2016 // The University of Cincinnati has settled a federal lawsuit filed by a student who said she was told she had to sit and work with other female students and not with male students in a physics lab. U.S. District Judge Susan...
