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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...
Ridesharing Rivalry: Lyft Sues Uber Claiming Documents Lifted
Nov 6 2014 // Lyft Inc. escalated the battle to crack the taxi and limousine market overseas with a lawsuit accusing a former executive of defecting to Uber Technologies Inc. with proprietary documents about Lyft’s international...
Federal Safety Engineer Defended Trinity’s Highway Guardrails
Nov 5 2014 // U.S. highway safety officials defended a widely used guardrail system’s crash-worthiness even as they worried whether its design had been altered in a potentially deadly way, according to internal e-mails. Starting...
2 Small Players Settle in Louisiana ‘Big Oil’ Coastal Flooding Suit
Nov 3 2014 // Two of the smaller players in a New Orleans area flood board’s lawsuit against the oil industry over damage to the state’s coast have agreed to a settlement. An attorney for the Southeast Louisiana Flood...
Family of Driver Killed in California Bus and FedEx Crash Sues
Nov 3 2014 // The family of the bus driver killed with nine others in a fiery collision with a FedEx truck in Northern California has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the company. The Sacramento Bee reported that the lawsuit seeks...
Allman Dropped from Georgia Lawsuit Over Movie Crew Train Crash
Nov 3 2014 // Gregg Allman has been dropped from a lawsuit by the family of a film worker killed by a train during shooting of a biographical movie about the Allman Brothers Band singer, attorneys said last week. Lawyers for the parents...
1st Lawsuit Filed Over Missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370
Nov 3 2014 // Two children of a passenger on Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 have sued the company and the Malaysian government for damages, the first lawsuit to be filed over the aircraft which disappeared in March. The two Malaysian...
Southern California Docs Bribed to Use Unsafe Spine Screws, Suits Claim
Nov 3 2014 // A former Southern California hospital executive is being sued by more than two dozen people who claim he ran a scheme that bribed surgeons to implant counterfeit screws in their patients’ spines, causing pain and...
