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$750K Settlement of Washington Suit Over Man’s Jail Suicide
Mar 14 2022 // King County has agreed to pay $750,000 to the family of a man who killed himself in a Seattle, Washington, jail after they filed a lawsuit alleging jail officials knew or should have known the man was in crisis but failed...
Missouri Man Awarded $20 Million in Ford Asbestos Suit
Mar 14 2022 // A south St. Louis County man who sued Ford Motor Co. over his exposure to asbestos has been awarded $20 million. In his lawsuit, William Trokey, 76, alleged that his exposure to asbestos while working on Ford brakes as a...
Lawsuits vs. Citizens Insurer Continue to Rise But Legal Fees and Payouts Dropping
Mar 11 2022 // A committee of the Citizens Property Insurance Corp. governing body produced some good news on litigated claims and some bad news Thursday, giving further insight into a big part of Florida’s insurance market. The...
Appeals Court Rules Protesters Can Sue Over Vegas Arrests
Mar 10 2022 // A federal appeals court ruled that a Las Vegas police detective can be sued for arresting protesters who chalked anti-police slogans on the sidewalk in front of the police station. Three activists arrested in 2013 broke an...
Online University Paying $22M in California Suit for Misleading Students
Mar 10 2022 // A California judge has ordered an online, for-profit university and its former parent company to pay $22 million in penalties, saying they mislead students about the costs of their education, among other things, the...
Illinois District Court: Insurer Cannot Rely on Employment-Related Exclusion in BIPA Suit
Mar 9 2022 // An Illinois federal judge said a policy exclusion for employment-related practices does not protect State Automobile Insurance Co. from defending a grocery chain accused of violating the Illinois Biometric Information...
Texas Oil Pipeline Billionaire Sues Beto O’Rourke For Defamation
Mar 9 2022 // A Texas oil pipeline billionaire is suing Beto O’Rourke for defamation after the Democrat criticized his $1 million donation to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s campaign following last year’s deadly winter...
Florida Class Action Wants Answer: Must Insurer Pay Attorney Fees for Pre-Suit Notices?
Mar 9 2022 // Florida’s Senate Bill 76, signed into law last June, was supposed to help reduce insurance claims litigation by making policyholders give 10-day notice before they file suit. The idea was to give insurers a little...
Los Angeles Suing Monsanto, 2 Others for Toxic PCBs in Waterways
Mar 8 2022 // The city of Los Angeles is suing Monsanto and two other companies for past and future costs of dealing with contamination of waterways by long-banned chemicals called polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, the city attorney...
Trial Starts for Lawsuit Over Police Use of Force in Colorado
Mar 8 2022 // The trial for a lawsuit accusing Denver, Colorado, police of using indiscriminate force two years ago against people protesting the killing of George Floyd started Monday in federal court. Opening statements will come...
J&J’s Controversial Prison Testing Resurfaces in Baby Powder Lawsuits
Mar 8 2022 // More than 50 years ago, nearly a dozen men incarcerated outside of Philadelphia enrolled in an experiment funded by Johnson & Johnson, according to unsealed documents. Now, those studies have come back to haunt the...
Zywave Agrees to $11 Million Fund to Settle ITC Data Breach Lawsuit
Mar 8 2022 // Insurance technology provider Zywave has agreed to offer an $11 million fund to settle a class-action lawsuit related to a data breach at a company it acquired in 2020. A proposed class-action suit was filed against...
Judge Dismisses Suit in Fatal Police Shooting in Utah
Mar 8 2022 // A federal judge has dismissed a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a Utah man who was shot at nearly 30 times and killed as he ran away from Salt Lake City police in 2020. U.S. District Judge David Barlow ruled...
U.S. Supreme Court Spurns Google Bid to Avoid Shareholder Lawsuit
Mar 7 2022 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Alphabet Inc’s attempt to nix a lawsuit by shareholders accusing the Google parent company of fraudulently concealing a security glitch that left private user data...
Environmental Groups Sue TotalEnergies Over Climate Marketing Claims
Mar 7 2022 // A group of environmental organizations has filed a lawsuit in France against the country’s largest energy company TotalEnergies, accusing it of misleading consumers about its efforts to fight climate change. The...
Lawsuit: Faulty Equipment Killed California Firefighters
Mar 7 2022 // The families of two California firefighters killed in a 2020 blaze are suing several makers of life-saving equipment for negligence, alleging the devices were defective and caused their loved ones’ deaths, the...
Emerging Trends In Litigation Risk Insurance
Mar 7 2022 // Litigation risk insurance refers to a relatively new set of insurance offerings that allow businesses to better manage the legal risks stemming from known litigation. There is a growing market for such products, which...
Israeli Ice Cream Maker Sues Ben & Jerry’s for Damages Over Boycott
Mar 4 2022 // Ben & Jerry’s was sued on Thursday by its longtime Israeli ice cream manufacturer, which said the company illegally severed their 34-year relationship after halting sales in Israeli-occupied Palestinian...
Michigan Sues Dam Owner Over Sediment in Kalamazoo River
Mar 4 2022 // The state of Michigan sued the owner and operator of a hydroelectric dam, alleging that its mismanaged drawdown of a lake to do repairs created sediment that has choked a 30-mile stretch of the Kalamazoo River, impeded...
Judge Rejects New York’s Bid to Dissolve NRA But Allows Lawsuit to Proceed
Mar 4 2022 // A judge has rejected an effort by New York’s attorney general to put the National Rifle Association out of business, but will allow her lawsuit accusing top executives of illegally diverting tens of millions of...
