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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...
Suit Filed in California Against Purina Claims Food Sickens, Kills Dogs
Feb 26 2015 // A dog owner has filed a lawsuit in California against a pet food company alleging that thousands of dogs have been sickened or died from eating the company’s dry dog food. Pet owner Frank Lucido filed the suit in...
Tobacco Firms to Settle 400 Florida Smokers’ Lawsuits for $100M
Feb 26 2015 // The three biggest U.S. tobacco companies agreed to pay $100 million to settle 400 Florida lawsuits, potentially resolving a group of cases filed after a 2006 ruling by the state’s highest court that made it easier...
Report: North Carolina Hospitals Reduce Lawsuits Against Patients
Feb 25 2015 // Two North Carolina newspapers report that hospitals in the state have sharply reduced the practice of suing patients who don’t pay their bills. The analysis by the The Charlotte Observer and The News & Observer...
Twice-Wounded Sandy Victims Seek Payout as FEMA Presses Insurers
Feb 25 2015 // Some homeowners hit by Hurricane Sandy say they’ve been victimized twice: first by the storm and later by insurers. John Clancy says his insurer, an Allstate Corp. unit, paid just $46,000 of the more than $200,000 in...
More than $1M Awarded in Oklahoma Nursing Home Lawsuit
Feb 24 2015 // The former owner of an Oklahoma City nursing home must pay a woman’s family more than $1 million in damages after staff were caught abusing the woman on camera. A jury recently awarded the three daughters of...
Donald Trump Withdraws Lawsuit Against Florida City Over Noise Ordinance Violations
Feb 24 2015 // Donald Trump has withdrawn a lawsuit he just filed against city officials in a Miami suburb over noise-ordinance violations against his resort. Trump spokesman Ed Russo was quoted by the Miami Herald last week as saying...
Court Clears Way For Couple to Sue Jack Nicklaus In Utah Case
Feb 24 2015 // A federal appeals court has ruled a Colorado couple can sue Jack Nicklaus over an alleged misrepresentation of the golf legend’s membership role in a $3.5 billion southern Utah luxury golf resort that went bankrupt...
Montana Man Sues University Alleging Harassment, Discrimination
Feb 24 2015 // A former janitor at Montana State University is suing the college over how he was treated by co-workers. Akram Zahran filed the lawsuit this past week in Gallatin County District Court against MSU, two co-workers and a...
Suit Filed Against U of New Mexico by Woman Who Reported Gang Rape
Feb 23 2015 // A woman’s lawsuit accuses the University of New Mexico of giving short shrift to her report of being raped by two football players and another man. The lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court seeks unspecified...
Lawsuit: Acupuncture Treatment Punctured California Woman’s Lung
Feb 23 2015 // A San Diego, Calif. woman is suing a chiropractor she claims collapsed her lung during an unlicensed acupuncture treatment. Jamie Del Fierro says she was injured about a year ago during a treatment for tension headaches at...
Oklahoma Energy Companies Sued Over Earthquake Damage
Feb 23 2015 // An Oklahoma resident has sued two energy companies seeking class-action status for people in nine counties who were affected by recent earthquakes. Jennifer Lin Cooper of Prague filed the suit against Tulsa-based New...
Ohio Cancer Cluster Suit Against Whirlpool Dropped
Feb 22 2015 // Families whose children have been among dozens sickened in a northern Ohio cancer cluster have dropped their federal lawsuit linking the illnesses to Whirlpool Corp.’s washing machine factory. The families asked this...
Wal-Mart Driver Appeals in Bid to Delay Morgan Crash Suit
Feb 20 2015 // A Wal-Mart driver involved in a highway crash that killed a comic and severely injured actor-comedian Tracy Morgan has asked a judge to reconsider her decision not to delay Morgan’s lawsuit against the company. Truck...
Fired Atlanta Fire Chief Files Federal Suit Against City
Feb 20 2015 // The former Atlanta fire chief who was fired after self-publishing a book that described homosexuality as a perversion has sued the city and Mayor Kasim Reed. Former chief Kelvin Cochran announced the federal suit during a...
Barclays Wins Reversal of Liability Ruling in $300M Black Diamond Suit
Feb 19 2015 // New York state’s top court on Thursday reversed a 2013 ruling that found Barclays Plc liable in a $300 million dispute with hedge fund Black Diamond Capital over the British bank’s refusal to pay back...
Large Product Liability Awards Made Comeback in 2014
Feb 19 2015 // Huge jury verdicts against companies over fatal flaws in their products made a comeback last year, which may foretell more bad news for carmakers with defective parts. Absent for a decade, billion-dollar verdicts returned...
