Latest Lawsuits Headlines
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California Latest to Sue Drug Companies Over Insulin Prices
Jan 17 2023 // California announced it will sue the companies that make and promote most of the nation’s insulin, accusing them of scheming to illegally increase the price of the drug and demanding they return millions of dollars...
Minnesota Health Care Provider to Settle $180K Disability Discrimination Suit
Jan 17 2023 // MINNEAPOLIS – North Memorial Health, a health care provider that operates two hospitals and 26 specialty and primary care clinics, urgent and emergency care facilities and medical transportation services throughout the...
Twitter’s Laid-Off Workers Cannot Pursue Claims Via Class-Action Lawsuit
Jan 17 2023 // Twitter Inc has secured a ruling allowing the social media company to force several laid-off workers suing over their termination to pursue their claims via individual arbitration than a class-action lawsuit. U.S. District...
Florida OIR: Litigation Cost Data Due March 1
Jan 13 2023 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation is reminding property/casualty carriers that litigation cost data for 2022 is due March 1. The data call was required by Senate Bill 76 in 2021 as a way to determine the amount of...
Shareholders Sue Southwest Airlines Over Flight Meltdown
Jan 13 2023 // Shareholders filed a lawsuit against Southwest Airlines Co. on Thursday, accusing the carrier of fraudulently concealing problems that led last month to an operational meltdown and more than 15,000 flight...
School Lawsuits Over Social Media Harm Face Tough Legal Road
Jan 13 2023 // Like the tobacco, oil, gun, opioid and vaping industries before them, the big U.S. social media companies are now facing lawsuits brought by public entities that seek to hold them accountable for a huge societal problem...
Class Action Suit Alleges Chubb Misleads Consumers With Home Premium Discounts
Jan 12 2023 // Insurer Chubb is being accused of misleading consumers in the way it offers insurance premium discounts to homeowners as percentages without specifying the actual dollar amounts that insureds can save, and allegedly not...
Morgan & Morgan Sues Trademark Office over Refusal to Register Phone Number
Jan 12 2023 // Florida-based Morgan & Morgan, which calls itself the largest injury law firm in the country, has become one of the property insurance industry’s chief adversaries, facing off with insurers over thousands of auto...
Closed Illinois Plant’s Ex-Operator Settling Suits For $408M
Jan 12 2023 // WILLOWBROOK, Ill. (AP) – The former operator of a suburban Chicago medical equipment cleaning plant has agreed to pay $408 million to settle hundreds of lawsuits alleging that the now-shuttered facility exposed residents...
Missouri Dairy Producer to Settle $140K Disability Discrimination Suit
Jan 12 2023 // ST. LOUIS – Hiland Dairy Foods, a Springfield, Missouri-based producer and distributor of dairy products, will pay $140,000 to resolve a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
Google Argues it Doesn’t Block Rivals in Bid to Kill U.S. Government Antitrust Lawsuit
Jan 12 2023 // Google parent Alphabet on Wednesday argued that a court should toss out a government antitrust lawsuit against it, saying that agreements it made with Apple and others to make Google the default search engine do not bar...
‘American Horror Story’ TV Production Firms Sued Over Driver’s COVID Death
Jan 12 2023 // The wife of a late Massachusetts man is suing the companies involved in the 2021 production of “American Horror Story” on Cape Cod, alleging their lack of precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19 led to...
Beach Town, State of New Jersey Exchange Lawsuits in Sand Dunes Battle
Jan 11 2023 // NORTH WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) — A beach town that is defying New Jersey’s order not to shore up its eroding sand dunes is suing the state for $21 million. That’s how much North Wildwood says it spent over the...
Trial Set for Black Army Officer Suing Police Over Violent Traffic Stop in Virginia
Jan 11 2023 // A U.S. Army lieutenant who was pepper sprayed, struck and handcuffed by police in rural Virginia, but never arrested, will argue to a jury that he was assaulted and falsely imprisoned and that his vehicle was illegally...
Texas Supreme Court Hears Whether ERCOT is Immune From Lawsuits
Jan 10 2023 // Lawyers argued before the Texas Supreme Court on Monday over whether the state’s power grid operator should be protected from lawsuits, a question that has become especially important after the deadly February 2021...
Washington Schools Suing over Social Media Harm
Jan 9 2023 // The public school district in Seattle has filed a novel lawsuit against the tech giants behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat, seeking to hold them accountable for the mental health crisis among...
Mississippi Farms Settle Suits Over South African Laborers’ Higher Wages
Jan 9 2023 // Two agriculture businesses in the Mississippi Delta and some Black farm workers have settled the workers’ lawsuits over claims the farms hired white laborers from South Africa and paid them more than the local Black...
Judge Approves $11M Fund to Settle Suit Against Zywave
Jan 9 2023 // A federal judge last week approved an $11 million deal to end a proposed class action lawsuit against insurance technology provider Zywave. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in...
Maryland Newsroom Shooting Victims Settle Suit Against Publisher
Jan 9 2023 // ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The families of victims in the Capital Gazette shooting and some newspaper employees who survived the deadly 2018 attack dismissed civil charges against The Baltimore Sun and Tribune Publishing this...
Ohio Man Who Had Snow Stuffed in Mouth During Arrest Files Suit
Jan 6 2023 // AKRON, Ohio (AP) – An Ohio man who had snow stuffed into his mouth by a police officer during an arrest in Akron has filed an excessive force lawsuit against the city and several officers, claiming his civil rights were...
