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$18M Settlement in Lawsuit over Boy’s Death at California School
Sep 5 2022 // The parents of an 8-year-old boy with Down syndrome who died after falling while strapped to a chair in class five years ago have reached an $18 million settlement in their wrongful death lawsuit against a Southern...
Forged Signatures, Fake Policies? Lawsuits Raise Questions About Captive Insurance Plan
Sep 5 2022 // Federal lawsuits, including a nationwide class action filed in California, have put a spotlight on a type of captive insurance program, charging its directors with a scheme that involved forged signatures and fake...
Wrongful Death Suit Filed in Fatal Crash of Oklahoma Officer
Sep 2 2022 // The family of an Oklahoma police officer killed when a truck struck the motorcycle he was riding while on duty is suing the driver and his employer. The wrongful death lawsuit, dated last Friday, on behalf of Edmond...
Veterans Seeking Earplug Damages Sue to Block 3M Healthcare Spinoff
Sep 2 2022 // Two U.S. military veterans on Thursday sued 3M Co. to block its planned spinoff of its healthcare business, which they called an illegal attempt to avoid compensating veterans for hearing damage caused by the...
Slain Marine’s Family Refiles $25M Defamation Suit Against Alec Baldwin
Sep 2 2022 // The family of a Marine killed in Afghanistan has revived a defamation lawsuit against Alec Baldwin over comments the actor made online. The sisters and widow of Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum allege Baldwin subjected them to...
Lawsuit Filed Over Violent Arrest Outside Arkansas Convenience Store
Sep 1 2022 // A man who was beaten and held down by Arkansas law enforcement officers during an arrest that was caught on a widely circulated video has filed a federal lawsuit against the officers. Attorneys for Randal Worcester filed...
J&J to Pay $40.5M to Settle New Hampshire Lawsuit, Avoid Trial Over Opioid Marketing
Sep 1 2022 // Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $40.5 million to settle New Hampshire’s claims over the company’s role in the opioid epidemic, averting a trial that had been scheduled to begin next...
Starbucks Executives, Directors Are Sued Over Diversity Policies
Sep 1 2022 // Starbucks Corp. executives and directors have been sued by a conservative think tank that believes the coffee chain’s efforts to promote diversity amount to racial discrimination. In a complaint filed on Tuesday, the...
Texas Newspaper Sued Over Firing Worker for Bug Bite Complaints
Aug 31 2022 // While media organizations depend on their reporters’ abilities to expose issues of public concern, a journalist at the Killeen Daily Herald found themselves out of a job when they complained to the newspaper’s...
Maryland County Settles Lawsuit Over Police Encounter With 5-Year-Old
Aug 30 2022 // Officials say Maryland’s Montgomery County has agreed to pay $275,000 to settle a lawsuit that grew from an encounter between a 5-year-old boy and two police officers at East Silver Spring Elementary School. The...
Texas Ambulance Company to Settle Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
Aug 29 2022 // Lone Star Ambulance, a San Antonio, Texas critical care transportation company, has agreed to pay $90,000 in damages and furnish other relief in order to settle a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
Louisiana Town Settles Suit Over Released Video of Illegal Search
Aug 29 2022 // A Virginia law professor is set to receive an $86,000 payment for settlement of his civil lawsuit filed against the City of Baton Rouge. The settlement follows a federal court order in which U.S. District Judge John W....
Texas, Federal Government at Odds Over Flood Relief Discrimination Suit
Aug 29 2022 // The faded and weathered construction permits still taped to Houston resident Mal Moses’ front door are reminders of the difficulties he faced in trying to get his mold-infested walls and leaky roof repaired after...
Meta’s Facebook Agrees to Settle Cambridge Analytica Suit
Aug 29 2022 // Meta Platforms Inc. settled a long-running lawsuit that claimed Facebook illegally shared user data with the research firm Cambridge Analytica. The preliminary settlement, disclosed in a court filing late Friday, follows...
3M Bankruptcy Tactic Fails as Combat Earplug Suits Move to Trial
Aug 29 2022 // 3M Co.’s plan to use controversial bankruptcy rules to shield itself from some 230,000 lawsuits over military earplugs looked like a relatively simple fix to a long-simmering problem that could cost it billions of...
USAA Settles Mississippi Class Action Over Underpaid Auto Claims
Aug 29 2022 // Another national insurance company has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging it underpaid hundreds of auto insurance claims. A federal court in Mississippi this month signed off on a confidential settlement in a...
Michigan-Based Salvation Army Store Sued for Violating ADA
Aug 26 2022 // Global charitable organization The Salvation Army violated federal law at its Ann Arbor, Michigan thrift store when it fired a cashier because of his mental and physical disabilities, the U.S. Equal Employment...
Moderna Sues Pfizer/BioNTech for Patent Infringement Over COVID Vaccine
Aug 26 2022 // Moderna is suing Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech for patent infringement in the development of the first COVID-19 vaccine approved in the United States, alleging they copied technology that Moderna developed years...
Swiss Re Underwriter Wins Sex Discrimination Suit After Boss Joked About Her Breasts
Aug 26 2022 // A former Swiss Re AG underwriter won her sex discrimination suit after she was left humiliated by a senior manager who told her “If I had breasts like yours I would be demanding too.” Julia Sommer was unfairly...
Cosmetics Maker Sephora Settles Customer Data Privacy Suit in California
Aug 26 2022 // Sephora Inc., one of the world’s largest cosmetics retailers, has settled a lawsuit claiming that the company sold customer information without proper notice in violation of the California’s landmark consumer...
