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Los Angeles Will Pay $300K to Settle Lawsuit Against Journalist Over Undercover Photos
Jun 21 2024 // Los Angeles has agreed to pay $300,000 to cover the legal fees of a local journalist and a technology watchdog group that had been sued by the city last year for publishing photos of names and photographs of hundreds of...
Chicago Health Care Company to Pay $2M To Settle False Claims Act Suit
Jun 20 2024 // A Chicago health care company and its former owners will pay nearly $2 million to the United States and the States of Illinois and Indiana to resolve a civil lawsuit arising from the submission of false claims to Medicare...
Industry Groups Back Drugmakers’ Appeal in Zantac Cancer Lawsuits
Jun 20 2024 // A bid by GSK and other drugmakers to stop more than 70,000 lawsuits in Delaware over discontinued heartburn drug Zantac has received the backing of leading U.S. industry groups, including the United States Chamber of...
Florida Citizens Board Votes to Raise Rates 14% But Litigation Costs Dropping
Jun 19 2024 // The board of governors for Florida’s state-created Citizens Property Insurance Corp. voted unanimously Wednesday to raise personal lines rates by an average of 14% statewide – near the maximum allowed under the...
Exxon Suit Targeting Activist Group Arjuna Tossed by Judge
Jun 19 2024 // A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by Exxon Mobil Corp. against Arjuna Capital after a lawyer for the activist investor group vowed not to try to resurrect a shareholder policy opposed by the company. The judge in Fort...
Ex-Browns QB Sues Digital Media Company Over Firing for Sportsbook Bet
Jun 18 2024 // CLEVELAND (AP) — Former Cleveland Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar has sued a digital media company over his firing as a pregame radio host for placing a bet on a sportsbook app when Ohio legalized gambling last...
Supreme Court to Hear Nvidia Bid to Scuttle Shareholder Lawsuit
Jun 18 2024 // The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a bid by Nvidia to scuttle a securities fraud lawsuit accusing the artificial intelligence chipmaker of misleading investors about how much of its sales went to the volatile...
Texan Whose Husband Died by Hot Tub Electrocution at Mexican Beach Resort Files Suit
Jun 17 2024 // MEXICO CITY (AP) — An American tourist was killed and his wife hospitalized after being electrocuted in a hot tub in a Mexican beach town earlier this week, an incident that prompted the family to sue the resort for...
Family of Bystander Killed in Minneapolis Police Chase Sues City
Jun 17 2024 // MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The family of a bystander killed during a 2021 police chase in Minneapolis is suing the city and alleging that dangerous pursuits are more common in areas of the city with predominantly Black...
Business Liability Claims Litigation Jumped in 2023: Lex Machina
Jun 17 2024 // After holding relatively steady for nearly a decade, the number of business liability policy claims cases jumped 28% in 2023, according to a litigation report from Lex Machina. The report found that 3,596 business...
Bayer Plans Renewed Push for Legal Shield Against Cancer-Related Lawsuits
Jun 17 2024 // After failing in several U.S. states this year, global chemical manufacturer Bayer said Tuesday that it plans to amplify efforts to create a legal shield against a proliferation of lawsuits alleging it failed to warn that...
Oklahoma Supreme Court Dismisses Reparations Lawsuit of Tulsa Race Massacre Survivors
Jun 14 2024 // OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, dampening the hope of advocates for racial justice that the city would make financial amends...
Louisiana High Court Reopens Window for Adult Victims of Childhood Sex Abuse to Sue
Jun 14 2024 // NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Officially reversing a controversial March ruling, Louisiana’s highest court Wednesday gave childhood victims of sexual abuse a renewed opportunity to file damage lawsuits. The state Supreme...
Apple Accused in Lawsuit of Underpaying Female Workers in California
Jun 14 2024 // Apple on Thursday was hit with a proposed class action accusing the tech giant of paying more than 12,000 female employees in California less than men with comparable jobs. The lawsuit filed in state court in San Francisco...
Four Tops Singer Sues Detroit-Area Hospital for Racial Discrimination
Jun 13 2024 // WARREN, Mich. (AP) — The lead singer of the Four Tops said a Detroit-area hospital restrained him and ordered a psychological exam after refusing to believe that he was part of the Motown music group. Alexander Morris,...
SpaceX Sued by Engineers Fired After Accusing Elon Musk of Sexism
Jun 13 2024 // Rocket maker SpaceX and its CEO Elon Musk were sued on Wednesday by eight engineers who say they were illegally fired for raising concerns about alleged sexual harassment and discrimination against women. The...
D.A. in California Sues Farmers, Other Home Insurers Alleging Scheme to Underinsure
Jun 13 2024 // Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price’s Consumer Justice Bureau has sued multiple home insurance carriers in California, including Farmers Insurance Exchange, alleging they’re operating a scheme that...
Elon Musk Withdraws Lawsuit Against OpenAI
Jun 12 2024 // Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk on Tuesday moved to dismiss his lawsuit accusing ChatGPT maker OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman of abandoning the startup’s original mission of developing artificial intelligence for...
Carmakers Face UK ‘Dieselgate’ Lawsuits Worth at Least $7.6B, Lawyers Say
Jun 12 2024 // Some of the world’s biggest carmakers are facing 1.5 million lawsuits in Britain for allegedly cheating emissions tests that could cost them at least 6 billion pounds ($7.6 billion), claimants’ lawyers told...
Real Nut Case: Ice Cream Maker Sued Over Lack of Actual Pistachios
Jun 11 2024 // Is it nuts to assume a scoop of pistachio ice cream should contain actual pistachios? Or how about real butter in a dish of butter pecan? Such weighty questions about a favorite summertime confection could soon be decided...
