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Marsh Offers Consumer Class-Action Settlement Insurance
Nov 19 2014 // To assist companies seeking to settle consumer class-action lawsuits gain greater certainty over their potential payouts, insurance broker Marsh has launched a specialty insurance product that transfers a company’s...
Kentucky Court Revives Lawsuit over Whiskey Fungus
Nov 19 2014 // The Kentucky Court of Appeals has revived a lawsuit claiming vapors from Jefferson County bourbon warehouses are causing a black fungus to form on nearby houses and vehicles. The Courier-Journal reported that a lower court...
Utah Settles Colorado Trademark Suit by Changing Ski Slogan
Nov 19 2014 // Salt Lake City tourism officials and a Colorado ski resort have settled a legal fight over a marketing slogan targeted to tourists in the lucrative winter sports industry. Utah marketers dropped “USA” from...
Players, Families Urge Judge to Reject NFL Concussion Settlement
Nov 19 2014 // Andy Miketa was known as the NFL’s lightest center during his two-year career with the Detroit Lions in the 1950s. At 6-foot-2 and 210 pounds, Miketa used his speed and toughness to stymie defensive linemen who...
U.S. Employment Discrimination Settlements, Cases Down from Last Year
Nov 19 2014 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) says it “fought hard to overcome extraordinary fiscal constraints and operational challenges” during the 2014 fiscal year because of sequestration and the...
Maryland Firm to Pay $415K to Settle EEOC Discrimination Suit
Nov 18 2014 // A Maryland-based environmental remediation services contractor will pay $415,000 and provide comprehensive equitable relief to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) race, gender discrimination and...
Victims Stymied in Access to Others’ Air Bag Liability Settlements
Nov 18 2014 // Confidential settlements over defective Takata Corp. air bags are sealing off relevant information that other victims could use to pursue injury claims. The accords make financial sense for the settling parties, but Takata...
Truck Driver in Tracy Morgan Crash Asks to Delay Lawsuit
Nov 17 2014 // The truck driver charged in a New Jersey highway crash that injured comedian-actor Tracy Morgan and killed another man filed a request on Nov. 14 to delay a federal lawsuit while his criminal case proceeds in state...
Acadia Insurance Sues Owner of HMS Bounty That Sank During Sandy
Nov 17 2014 // An insurance company is suing the owner of an 18th-century replica sailing ship that sank during Superstorm Sandy. Newsday reported on Nov. 14 that Acadia Insurance Co. sued Robert Hansen this month. The suit seeks to...
Condé Nast Agrees to $5.8M Settlement in Class-Action Suit Over Intern Pay
Nov 14 2014 // Condé Nast agreed on Thursday to pay $5.8 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by thousands of former interns at the publisher who said they were underpaid for work at the company’s high-end...
AIG, Not Taxpayers, Could Pay If Greenberg Wins $25 Billion Bailout Suit
Nov 14 2014 // The U.S. government has grounds to demand that American International Group Inc. pay any significant damages should Maurice “Hank” Greenberg win his $25 billion claim that federal officials shortchanged...
Monsanto Settles Farmer Suits Over Oregon Experimental GMO Wheat
Nov 13 2014 // Monsanto Co. said on Wednesday it reached a settlement with U.S. wheat farmers who sued the seed company over market disruption after unapproved genetically engineered wheat was discovered growing without oversight in...
‘Selfie Stalker’ Sues Nancy Grace in Colorado
Nov 12 2014 // A man who was quickly branded a “selfie stalker” after his picture turned up on a crime victim’s cellphone is suing television commentator Nancy Grace for defamation. In a lawsuit filed Monday in Denver,...
U.S. Veterans Sue Banks, Allege Money Scheme Aided Terrorists
Nov 12 2014 // Wounded U.S. veterans and family members of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq sued five European banks on Monday, seeking to hold them responsible for shootings and roadside bombings because they allegedly processed Iranian...
Arizona Sheriff Sues Building Owners Over Shoulder Injury
Nov 10 2014 // Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has sued the owners of a downtown Phoenix, Ariz. office building over a broken shoulder he suffered when he fell crossing a street. Arpaio is seeking unspecified damages for his February...
Old vs. New GM at Issue in Ignition Switch Class Action
Nov 10 2014 // General Motors Co. told a judge that claims in a $10 billion customer class-action over ignition flaws are “misleading” and should be dismissed. The 68 named plaintiffs in the group lawsuit argue that the...
Former UNC Football Player Sues College Over ‘Sham’ Education
Nov 9 2014 // Former University of North Carolina football player Michael McAdoo has filed a lawsuit against the school, saying it failed to provide him and other athletes a quality education by guiding them toward sham classes. Online...
Univ. of Minnesota Sues U.S. Wireless Carriers Over Patents
Nov 7 2014 // The University of Minnesota sued the four largest wireless carriers in the United States over alleged patent infringement. Complaints filed in U.S. District Court in Minnesota contend that AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and...
Vacation Rental Firm Sues San Francisco Over Airbnb Advantage
Nov 7 2014 // A vacation-home rental website has sued San Francisco, claiming a new law making it legal for residents to rent out their homes online for short periods unfairly gives rivals such as Airbnb an advantage. The lawsuit filed...
Losing Bankruptcy Liability Shield Could Cost GM $2 Billion
Nov 6 2014 // Jesse Salazar III says an ignition- switch flaw in his 2008 Chevrolet HHR has depressed its value, and he wants manufacturer General Motors Co. to make it up to him. GM will argue in court filings later today that it...
