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Alabama Landfill Still Burning, Triggering Health Concerns, Class Action vs. Owners
Jan 18 2023 // An underground fire at an Alabama landfill has continued to pollute the air in eastern parts of the Birmingham region more than 50 days after a fire began underground, according to air quality monitors. The monitors...
Lawsuit Filed Over Arkansas Inmate’s Malnutrition Death
Jan 18 2023 // LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – The family of a man who died from dehydration and malnutrition while being held in a west Arkansas jail filed a federal lawsuit Friday claiming jail staff ignored his medical and mental health...
Insurers Do Not Have to Defend in Opioid Litigation, Federal Appeals Court Finds
Jan 18 2023 // Two insurance carriers have no duty to defend or to indemnify Quest Pharmaceuticals in lawsuits brought over the drug distributor’s role in the opioid crisis, a federal appeals court decided last week. The opinion...
Banker’s Heirs Sue Japanese Insurer Over Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’
Jan 18 2023 // Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting should be returned to the family of its former owner by Sompo Holdings Inc., the Japanese insurer that bought the famous artwork despite its tainted Nazi-era past, according to...
Louisiana Guaranty Fund Extends Deadline to File Suit Against FedNat, Maison
Jan 17 2023 // The Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association (LIGA) has granted a voluntary extension to March 31, 2023, of the deadline by which former FedNat Insurance Company and Maison Insurance Company policyholders are required to...
La. Nursing Home Owner Faces New Lawsuit in Ida Storm Evacuation
Jan 17 2023 // NEW ORLEANS (AP) _ A nursing home owner who faces criminal and civil complaints over evacuating residents to a squalid warehouse to ride out Hurricane Ida in 2021 is now being sued by federal authorities who say he...
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...
