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#1 Everclear High-Proof Alcohol Poses Extreme Risk, Alleges Burn Victim’s Lawsuit
Jul 18 2025 // In May 2025, Massachusetts college student Yvette Yuri Lanuza Digan was at a fraternity gathering when another person poured Everclear grain alcohol onto an open fire in the backyard of the house. An enormous fireball...
#2 Excessive Litigation Causes Surge in Liability Insurance Costs: Marsh McLennan CEO
Jul 18 2025 // Excessive litigation and abuse of the U.S. legal system are effectively imposing a tax on the U.S. economy and causing a surge in liability insurance costs, according to John Doyle, president and chief executive officer of...
#3 Louisiana Police Officer Who Fatally Shot a Puppy Will Face a Jury Lawsuit Trial
Jun 9 2025 // A New Orleans police officer who shot and killed a puppy while responding to a call is set to go to trial Monday in a federal lawsuit filed by the dog’s owners. The Catahoula Leopard dog ran up to Officer Derrick...
#4 Former Ohio Doctor Loses Defamation Lawsuit Against Ex-Employers
Jun 19 2025 // A former Ohio doctor who was fired before being found not guilty on murder charges in the deaths of 14 patients lost a defamation lawsuit against his former employers on Monday, after a judge stepped in for a jury on...
#5 Lawsuit Filed Over Jailhouse Killing of Deaf Man in Maryland
Jun 16 2025 // In the days before Javarick Gantt was strangled to death in jail, he was forced to share a cell with a first-degree murder suspect whose violent behavior had already alarmed his previous cellmate, according to a lawsuit...
#6 Lawsuit Says Former Trident Exchange CEO Was ‘Self-Dealing’ on IT Work
May 29 2025 // A lawsuit filed by the parent company of Florida-based Trident Reciprocal Exchange charges that the insurer’s former CEO and co-founder secretly funneled more than $400,000 to her and her husband’s accounting...
#7 Low-Income Tenants Sue Omaha Housing Authority Over Bed Bug Infestations
Jan 8 2025 // A class-action lawsuit filed Monday alleges the Omaha Housing Authority ignored and failed to eliminate bed bug infestations at high-rise apartments for low-income residents. The new lawsuit, brought by a pioneering firm...
#8 Yodel Lawsuit Exposes Strains in UK’s Troubled Parcel Industry
Jan 13 2025 // A van delivery entrepreneur whose startup was dubbed the Uber of the moving business was accused of asset-stripping and misappropriating funds after his takeover of a major UK parcel shipment firm fell apart. Shift, which...
#9 Supreme Court Leans Toward Gun Companies’ Bid to Avoid Mexico’s Trafficking Lawsuit
Mar 4 2025 // U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled sympathy on Tuesday toward a bid by two American gun companies to throw out the Mexican government’s lawsuit accusing them of aiding illegal firearms trafficking to drug cartels...
#10 Husband Sues Travel Firm Over Wife’s Death in Hippo Attack on Safari
Feb 19 2025 // A New Jersey man whose wife was killed in a horrific hippopotamus attack last year during a safari in Africa is suing the U.S. company that arranged the trip, alleging it failed to ensure their safety and did not...
#11 FBI Raided the Wrong House. Now the US Supreme Court Will Hear Their Lawsuit
Apr 29 2025 // Before dawn on Oct. 18, 2017, FBI agents broke down the front door of Trina Martin’s Atlanta home, stormed into her bedroom and pointed guns at her and her then-boyfriend as her 7-year-old son screamed for his mom...
#12 Airbnb Files Lawsuit Against City of New Orleans Over Regulation Dispute
Feb 20 2025 // Airbnb is suing the City of New Orleans for requiring the company and short-term rental platforms ensure properties they market are in compliance with city laws. “What we’re looking at now due to Airbnb’s...
#13 Will Georgia Gov. Kemp’s Move to Curb Lawsuits Keep Insurance Rates From Rising?
Feb 3 2025 // Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Thursday reiterated his simple pitch for lawsuit limits: They’ll halt rising insurance costs. The reality, though, is more complicated. Changes could reduce liability insurance costs for...
#14 Karen Read Seeks Delay in Wrongful Death Civil Lawsuit Until Murder Trial Is Done
Oct 7 2024 // Karen Read is seeking to delay a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of her Boston police officer boyfriend until her criminal trial in connection with his death is done. The lawsuit filed last month blames the...
#15 Groups Notify Musk’s AI Company of Intent to Sue Over Facility Pollution in Memphis
Jun 18 2025 // The NAACP and an environmental group said Tuesday that they intend to sue Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI over concerns about air pollution generated by a supercomputer facility located near...
#16 Parents of Student Disciplined for Using AI Sue School
Oct 25 2024 // The parents of a high school senior in Massachusetts argued in federal court in Boston on Tuesday that their son was unfairly punished for using artificial intelligence while researching a history project, harming his...
#17 Tesla Settled Suit Over Autopilot Crash With Truck Crossing Highway
Jul 18 2025 // Tesla Inc. settled a high-profile lawsuit over a driver’s death in 2019 when the Autopilot system in his Model 3 allegedly failed to avoid a collision with a tractor-trailer crossing a Florida highway. The...
#18 J&J Plunges After Plan to Settle Baby Powder Suits Fails
Apr 1 2025 // Johnson & Johnson shares fell the most in five years after the company’s plan to settle thousands of talc-related lawsuits through bankruptcy was shot down in court. The ruling means J&J will have to fight...
#19 Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Mexico’s Suit Against American Gun Companies
Oct 8 2024 // The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a bid by U.S. gun maker Smith & Wesson SWBI.O and firearms wholesaler Interstate Arms to throw out Mexico’s lawsuit accusing them of aiding the illegal trafficking...
#20 Police Officer’s Family Sues Girlfriend Accused of His Death and Bars That Served Her
Aug 27 2024 // Karen Read, whose recent high-profile trial for the death of a Boston police officer she was dating ended in a mistrial, is now facing a wrongful death suit brought by the late officer’s family that alleges she...
