Latest Lawsuits Headlines
All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Domino’s Sued After Texas Deliveryman’s Death
Jul 15 2011 // Domino’s is being sued by the widow of a Texas employee who died a year after being robbed and beaten with a baseball bat by teens who lured the deliveryman to a vacant house. The lawsuit alleges the company was...
Dad Files Suit in Pennsylvania Van Death
Jul 14 2011 // The father of a severely autistic man who died after being left alone in a hot van last year is suing a suburban Philadelphia care facility. The Philadelphia Daily News reports William Nevins filed a federal lawsuit last...
Michigan Woman Sues Man After Facebook Romance Fails
Jul 14 2011 // A suburban Detroit woman is suing a Washington state man for more than $8,000 in damages after a failed Facebook romance. Fifty-year-old Cheryl Gray of Livonia filed the civil lawsuit in May against 35-year-old Wylie Iwan...
Shareholders Sue Murdoch’s News Corp.
Jul 14 2011 // A group of News Corp. shareholders have sued the media conglomerate over a phone-hacking scandal at its now-closed News of the World tabloid in London. The lawsuit accuses News Corp. of large-scale governance failures...
Florida Woman Sues Bank for Declaring She Was Dead
Jul 13 2011 // A Florida woman says she’s having numerous financial troubles because of a bank error that caused Chase Bank USA to declare her dead last November. Wrenella Pierre has filed a lawsuit and Chase officials said Monday...
Pennsylvania Homeowners Sue Gas Driller over Water Well
Jul 13 2011 // A western Pennsylvania couple has sued a natural gas driller claiming its activities contaminated their water well. The Johnstown Tribune-Democrat reports that Chester and Edith Slesinger are suing T&F Exploration LP...
Employment Class Actions Survive Despite Wal-Mart Ruling
Jul 13 2011 // The end of the road for a class-action discrimination lawsuit brought by female employees of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has not spelled doom for employment lawsuits facing other big U.S. companies. A landmark U.S. Supreme Court...
Mississippi Sues BP Gulf Oil Claims Fund
Jul 13 2011 // Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood filed a lawsuit Tuesday to force Kenneth Feinberg, administrator of BP’s $20 billion fund for Gulf Coast oil spill compensation, to release documents it says it needs to ensure...
Florida Student Given Alcohol by Teacher Sues School Board
Jul 12 2011 // A central Florida high school student is suing the school board, claiming officials should have intervened before his teacher gave him alcohol and then let him drive home drunk. Nineteen year-old Dylan Ferguson said his...
Liberty Mutual Sues Goldman Over Freddie Mac Investment Losses
Jul 8 2011 // Boston-based Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. and several of its subsidiaries have sued investment banker Goldman, Sachs & Co. for “making materially misleading statements and omissions” in a preferred stock...
California Court Expands Policyholders’ Right to Sue Insurers
Jul 7 2011 // An uptick in consumer protection lawsuits against California insurance companies is widely expected in the wake of a state appellate decision allowing a policyholder to sue The Progressive Group of Insurance Companies over...
Feds Intervene in Lawsuit over FEMA Contract
Jul 7 2011 // The Justice Department has intervened in a whistleblower lawsuit that accuses a New Orleans, La., construction company of submitting forged records so it could cash in on a $28 million federal contract for work on...
North Carolina Football Player Sues UNC, NCAA Over Ineligibility
Jul 7 2011 // A former North Carolina football player has filed a lawsuit against the school and the NCAA, seeking reinstatement after being declared permanently ineligible for academic misconduct. Defensive end Michael McAdoo is also...
Pennsylvania Lawsuit Seeks GM Repairs of 400,000 Impalas
Jul 7 2011 // General Motors Co. has been sued by a Pennsylvania woman seeking to force the U.S. automaker to fix rear-end problems on more than 400,000 Chevrolet Impala vehicles for 2007 and 2008 model years. In 2008, GM told dealers...
Jury Finds for Insurer in $22M Suit Over Hail Damage Claims
Jul 4 2011 // A jury in Houston, Texas, has found in favor of a property insurer in a lawsuit brought by a townhouse homeowners association over roof hail damage to 22 buildings. Summer Hill Village Community Association sued Colony...
Web Exchange
Jul 4 2011 // IJ Video Highlights Consolidation Nation Later this year the New York State Department of Insurance will complete its merger with the state’s banking department to become the New York State Department of Financial...
Massachusetts Family’s 9/11 Suit Questions Logan Airport’s Security
Jul 4 2011 // The family of a Massachusetts man killed in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks says in court documents that private security screeners at Logan International Airport were not made aware of the terrorist threat from...
Michigan Shields Public Park Volunteers from Lawsuits
Jul 1 2011 // Volunteers can help the Michigan Department of Natural Resources with more activities such as improving wildlife habitat, preserving wetlands and grooming trails under a bill Gov. Rick Snyder signed into law. Under the new...
Judge Blocks Sierra Club from Lawsuit Against BP
Jul 1 2011 // A federal magistrate judge has refused to allow the Sierra Club to join a lawsuit filed by the Justice Department against BP and other companies over last year’s disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Judge Sally...
Mississippi High Court to Hear Appeal in Lawyer Fees Case
Jul 1 2011 // It’s round two for Republican state Auditor Stacy Pickering and Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood in a fight over the constitutionality of a law that allows Hood to hire private lawyers to represent Mississippi in...
