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North Carolina Judge Grants Class-Action Status to Magistrates’ Pay Lawsuit
Mar 10 2015 // A judge is approving class-action status to a lawsuit saying North Carolina has broken its promise to give magistrates pay raises. Forty magistrates filed the lawsuit last year. But with Superior Court Judge Michael...
U.S. Consumer Bureau Moves to Restrict Mandatory Arbitration Clauses
Mar 10 2015 // Financial companies routinely use mandatory arbitration to block class-action lawsuits, making it difficult for consumers to win big payouts in disputes over credit cards and other products, a U.S. regulator found. When...
Jury Verdict Favors Texas Insurer in Hidalgo County Hail Claim Case
Mar 9 2015 // A Texas-based insurance company has prevailed in the first lawsuit to go to trial over claims from two massive hailstorms in Hidalgo County, Texas, in 2012. The 12-member jury in Amaro v. National Lloyds found that...
Oregon School District Sued by Women Over Alleged 1969 Abuse
Mar 9 2015 // Three women who say they were sexually abused by a sixth-grade teacher 45 years ago have sued the Oregon school district that employed him. The federal lawsuit also lists the teacher as a defendant. The complaint says the...
Suit Filed Against Jewish Cemetery in California For Throwing Out Remains
Mar 9 2015 // One of the nation’s largest Jewish cemeteries and the resting place of notables including Groucho Marx has been sued for allegedly breaking vaults to make room for more graves and throwing out human bones in a...
Iowa Court Limits Damages to 2 Years in Wage Discrimination Lawsuit
Mar 9 2015 // Three women who worked for Muscatine, Iowa-based office furniture manufacturer Allsteel Inc. may proceed with a lawsuit that alleges wage discrimination, the Iowa Supreme Court said, but any damages will be limited to a...
Executives Examine D&O Claim Trends, Cyber Exposure
Mar 6 2015 // A number of industry executives spoke with Insurance Journal recently to share their observations on the current directors and officers liability insurance claim trends. Executives also spoke about a new potential D&O...
Gaylord, Sibley County in Minnesota Settle Racial Profiling Lawsuit
Mar 6 2015 // Officials in the south-central Minnesota city of Gaylord have agreed to pay tens of thousands of dollars to a Mexican immigrant to settle a federal lawsuit that alleged racial profiling. Minnesota Public Radio News reports...
Lawsuit Says Oregon Woman’s Brain Tumor Sample For Biopsy Lost
Mar 5 2015 // An Oregon woman has sued a Portland hospital for $900,000, alleging that a brain tumor sample set aside for biopsy has been lost, leaving her uncertain about whether the tumor was cancerous. Catherine Stewart is seeking...
California Sues Glass Company Over Hazardous Waste in Wine Bottles
Mar 4 2015 // California’s Department of Toxic Substances Control says it is suing a glass company for violating recycling laws after it added hazardous waste dust to wine bottles made at its Modesto plant. The department said...
Family of Oregon Worker Killed in Blender Sues Meat Distributor
Mar 4 2015 // The family of a cleaning worker who was killed when he fell into a running industrial meat blender at an Oregon plant is suing the meat distributor for $5 million. The Oregonian reported that the lawsuit filed last week in...
Asiana Settles Personal Injury Suits Over San Francisco Crash
Mar 4 2015 // Asiana Airlines Inc. settled 72 personal injury claims in lawsuits filed over a July 2013 crash landing at San Francisco International Airport and is continuing to negotiate with other passengers. The airline announced the...
Exxon Hit with Lawsuit in Louisiana over Denied Tainted Fuel Claims
Mar 3 2015 // ExxonMobil has paid more than $4.6 million to nearly 2,900 motorists impacted by the company’s production of more than 5 million gallons of tainted fuel distributed in the Baton Rouge area in March...
Lawsuit in 2011 Nevada Gold Mine Death Settled
Mar 3 2015 // A lawyer for the Utah family of a contract worker at a Nevada gold mine that paid more than $100,000 in U.S. safety fines after he was killed there in 2011 says they’ve settled a wrongful death suit with Newmont USA,...
Ohio Sues BP for $33M Over Tank Leak Cleanup Costs
Mar 2 2015 // BP Plc double dipped by taking a total of more than $33 million from an Ohio compensation fund and insurers to clean up leaks from underground storage tanks, according to the state’s attorney general. Attorney...
Nurse Who Caught Ebola Sues Dallas Hospital Where She Worked
Mar 2 2015 // Nina Pham, a nurse who contracted Ebola while treating a man who died of the disease, sued the Dallas hospital where she worked, her attorney’s office said without elaborating. Pham and another Texas Health...
Years of Sewer Backups in South Dakota Town Prompt Lawsuits
Mar 2 2015 // Thirteen Spearfish, S.D., residents have sued the city over years of sewer backups. Plaintiffs say in their lawsuit that they have suffered through a series of sewer backups stretching back to 2008, leading to stinky,...
Red-Light Camera Lawsuits Reinstated in Louisiana Parish
Mar 2 2015 // The battle over Jefferson Parish’s defunct red-light camera program is headed back to district court, after appellate judges reversed decisions throwing out ticketed drivers’ lawsuits against the parish and...
Utah Firm to Issue Refunds to Settle Suit Over Weight-Loss Pills
Mar 2 2015 // A Salt Lake City, Utah-based company has agreed to pay refunds to consumers who purchased its weight-loss tablets to settle a class-action lawsuit that claimed its advertising slogan, “Eat All You Want & Still...
Lawsuit Filed in California Against Scope Maker in Superbug Infection
Feb 27 2015 // A patient has sued the maker of a medical scope linked to the outbreak of a superbug at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Attorney Pete Kaufman filed suit this week on behalf of 18-year-old Aaron Young, who remains...
