Latest Lawsuits Headlines
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Judge Grants Toyota More Time to Win OK of $1.1 Billion Settlement
Jun 17 2013 // Toyota Motor Corp. and lawyers suing the company were given more time to win final approval of a $1.1 billion settlement of claims that recalls related to unintended acceleration hurt the value of U.S. customers’...
Washington Public Employee Fired Over Fruit Pie Suing City
Jun 17 2013 // A Bridgeport, Wash., public works employee who was fired by the mayor for shoplifting a $1.69 fruit pie is filing a wrongful termination lawsuit against the city. Mayor Marilynn Lynn said the value of the theft...
Solar Construction: Too Hot to Handle?
Jun 17 2013 // The solar construction industry has been extremely hot in recent years. Perhaps, too hot. The sector’s rapid growth has led to an oversupply of solar panels, which has turned up the heat on manufacturers to lower...
BP Shareholders Seek Class Action Status for Suit Over Gulf Spill
Jun 16 2013 // BP Plc’s U.S. investors asked a federal court to grant class action, or group, status for their lawsuit claiming the company misled them before and after the 2010 spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The investors, led by...
Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Utah Police Agency
Jun 14 2013 // The family of a young woman fatally shot by West Valley City police has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the officers involved and the former police chief. Danielle Willard’s parents filed the lawsuit Wednesday...
Colorado County Pays $30K To Settle Jail Suicide Suit
Jun 14 2013 // Elko County has agreed to a $30,000 settlement with the estate of a 49-year-old Colorado man who hanged himself at the county jail while being held on drug charges in June 2010. James Duhon told jail employees he was a...
U.S. Sues BMW, Dollar General Over Use of Criminal Records in Hiring
Jun 14 2013 // The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed lawsuits this week against discount retailer Dollar General Corp. and a BMW manufacturing plant in South Carolina over their use of criminal background checks to screen out...
South Carolina Woman Sues Bail Firm, Alleges Tracking Device Failed
Jun 14 2013 // A woman says a North Charleston, S.C. bonding company failed to monitor a 25-year-old man who sexually assaulted her while wearing one of the firm’s tracking devices. The Post and Courier of Charleston reported that...
San Francisco Sues Gun Companies Over High-Capacity Magazines
Jun 12 2013 // San Francisco is suing three gun accessories companies and one gun show promoter for selling disassembled high-capacity magazines disguised as gun magazine repair kits in violation of California law. The lawsuit was...
Connecticut Court: $1M Coverage for Nursing Home Fire Victims’ Families
Jun 11 2013 // Families suing the operator of a Hartford nursing home where 16 patients died in a 2003 fire suffered a setback Monday, when the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that the home’s insurance coverage was $1 million...
Washington Files Suit To Recoup Wildfire Costs
Jun 11 2013 // Washington state has filed suit against two companies to try to recover firefighting costs from a blaze that destroyed 61 homes and blackened 36 square miles last year. A state investigation into the cause of the Taylor...
Chubb Must Face Bear Stearns Suit Over Coverage for SEC Deal
Jun 11 2013 // Chubb Corp.’s Vigilant Insurance must face a lawsuit by Bear Stearns Cos. accusing the insurer of breach of contract for refusing to pay part of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission settlement, New York...
Broker Awarded $3.8M Verdict in Reputation Suit
Jun 10 2013 // A Los Angeles Superior Court jury has awarded $3.8 million in lost profits and business reputation damages to HCF Insurance Agency. On June 3, HCF, represented by law firm Winget Spadafora & Schwartzberg LLP, got the...
Oklahoma Lawmakers to Revive Lawsuit Limits
Jun 10 2013 // Oklahoma lawmakers will again consider legislation setting limits on lawsuits and making it easier to dismiss those that don’t have merit after the state Supreme Court struck down a 2009 law on the...
Sierra Club Sues BNSF Over Coal Dust From Trains in Washington
Jun 10 2013 // The Sierra Club is suing Burlington Northern Santa Fe in federal court in Seattle over coal dust that blows off trains into Washington rivers and Puget Sound. The suit says the railway sends an average of four trains or...
Washington Farmers Sue Monsanto Over GMO Wheat
Jun 10 2013 // Two wheat growers in Washington state have filed suit against Monsanto over the unauthorized release of genetically modified wheat. The lawsuit claims the discovery of the unapproved wheat has hurt farmers’ export...
Fracking Companies Silence Water Complaints With Sealed Settlements
Jun 10 2013 // Chris and Stephanie Hallowich were sure drilling for natural gas near their Pennsylvania home was to blame for the headaches, burning eyes and sore throats they suffered after the work began. The companies insisted...
Washington Public Employee Fired Over Fruit Pie Suing City
Jun 7 2013 // A Bridgeport, Wash. public works employee who was fired by the mayor for shoplifting a $1.69 fruit pie is filing a wrongful termination lawsuit against the city. Mayor Marilynn Lynn told The Wenatchee World the value of...
Farmers, Safety Group Sue Monsanto Over Biotech Wheat
Jun 7 2013 // American wheat farmers and a food safety advocacy group filed a lawsuit Thursday against biotech seed developer Monsanto Co., accusing the company of failing to protect the U.S. wheat market from contamination by its...
S&P Wins Transfer of Ratings Lawsuits by States to Federal Court in New York
Jun 7 2013 // Standard & Poor’s and its parent company McGraw Hill Financial Inc. on Thursday won a ruling that moves 15 lawsuits in which they were accused of fraudulently inflating credit ratings to a single federal...
