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Idaho Man Sues Scouts Over Alleged Childhood Sex Abuse
Aug 2 2021 // An Idaho man is suing the Boy Scouts of America for failing to warn children that took part in the youth program that they could be exposed to sex abusers. The man, who uses the name Mark Doe 14 in the federal lawsuit...
New Securities Class Actions Including M&As Down But SPAC-Related Suits Up
Aug 2 2021 // Plaintiffs filed 112 new securities class action lawsuits in federal and state courts in the first half of 2021, down 25% from the second half of 2020. This was the lowest number of filings since the first half of 2015,...
Virginia Judge Upholds Liberty University’s Suit Against Falwell
Aug 2 2021 // A Lynchburg judge has upheld most of a lawsuit Liberty University filed against its former leader, Jerry Falwell Jr., after an acrimonious parting last year. The lawsuit survived its first round of legal challenges Friday...
Oregon Home Manufacturer Sued for Alleged Racism, Discrimination
Aug 2 2021 // Two former employees of a home manufacturing company in eastern Oregon filed a lawsuit saying they endured anti-Black racism and discrimination, and were fired after reporting the incidents to managers. The lawsuit was...
$5.5M Settlement Reached in Washington Nurse Lawsuit
Aug 2 2021 // A class-action lawsuit brought by thousands of nurses who said they weren’t properly paid for lunch and other breaks has settled with Kitsap County’s main health care system, Virginia Mason Franciscan...
California Healthcare Provider Paying $37M to Settle Whistleblower Lawsuits
Aug 2 2021 // Southern California-based Prime Healthcare Services and two of its doctors will pay $37.5 million to settle whistleblower lawsuits that claimed the hospital system paid kickbacks to one of the physicians and bought his...
Family of Boy Thrown From Balcony Sues Minnesota’s Mall of America
Jul 30 2021 // The family of a boy who was thrown off a third-floor balcony at the Mall of America in April 2019 has filed a lawsuit accusing the mall of failing to provide proper security. The complaint filed says the mall and its...
Gun Maker Offers $33M to Settle Suit by Sandy Hook Families
Jul 30 2021 // The maker of the rifle used in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting has offered some of the victims’ families nearly $33 million to settle their lawsuit over how the company marketed the firearm to the...
Bayer Books Additional $4.5 Billion for Roundup Litigation
Jul 30 2021 // Bayer said on Thursday it would book an additional provision of $4.5 billion related to litigation which alleges that its weedkiller Roundup can cause cancer. Bayer made the announcement in an update to investors on how it...
Feds Sue North Carolina County Over Firing of 911 Operator Who Reported Sexual Harassment
Jul 30 2021 // A North Carolina county’s emergency communications unit engaged in unlawful retaliation when it terminated a worker after she told supervisors that she had been sexually harassed while on the job, according to a...
The Hanover Enhances Product Suites for Lawyers, Healthcare Facilities
Jul 29 2021 // The Hanover Insurance Group Inc. said it has enhanced its product suites for lawyers and healthcare facilities. The Hanover Lawyers Advantage product suite offers stand-alone professional liability coverage for a wide...
West Virginia Lawsuit Over Opioids Reaches Closing Arguments
Jul 29 2021 // Three major U.S. drug distributors should be held responsible for sending a “tsunami” of prescription pain pills that caused a health crisis in one corner of West Virginia, an attorney for local governments...
Elderly Colorado Man Tasered Says Cop Put Knee on Neck in Lawsuit
Jul 28 2021 // A 75-year-old man who suffered a cascade of health problems after a police officer used a Taser on him in his home without warning filed a lawsuit accusing the officer of also putting a knee on his neck and causing an...
States Braced for a Wave of COVID Lawsuits. It Never Arrived.
Jul 28 2021 // In a legislative flurry, 30 states instituted liability protections in late 2020 and early 2021 designed to protect businesses from COVID-19 lawsuits, out of fear that companies would be sued for exposing workers, clients...
London Court of Appeal Agrees to Reopen $7B Brazil Dam-Collapse Lawsuit Against BHP
Jul 28 2021 // London’s Court of Appeal made a U-turn on Tuesday by agreeing to reopen a $7 billion lawsuit by 200,000 claimants against Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP, reviving a case over a dam rupture behind Brazil’s...
Purdue’s Creditors Back Bankruptcy Plan That Would Pay 3,000 Opioid Lawsuits
Jul 27 2021 // OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP said on Tuesday that creditors voted in favor of its reorganization plan that would provide billions of dollars to the governments that sued the company for its role in the U.S. opioid...
Oregon Home Manufacturer Sued for Alleged Racism, Discrimination
Jul 26 2021 // Two former employees of a home manufacturing company in eastern Oregon have filed a lawsuit saying they endured anti-Black racism and discrimination, and then were fired after reporting the incidents to managers. The...
Maryland County Commits to Change After Lawsuit Settlement
Jul 26 2021 // A $2.3 million payment to a group of Black and Latino police officers to settle their workplace discrimination lawsuit against a Maryland police department is the latest effort toward reforms within the department, a...
$65M Settlement Proposed in New York Polluted Water Lawsuit
Jul 23 2021 // Plaintiffs in a federal class action lawsuit could get payments and medical monitoring as part of a proposed $65.25 million settlement with three companies over chemical contamination of the water supply in an upstate New...
U.S. Lawsuit Could Open ‘Giant Can of Worms’ in Amazon’s Fight Against Product Recalls
Jul 23 2021 // A U.S. safety regulator’s decision last week to sue Amazon.com Inc. could bring clarity to a question that has long befuddled courts and state legislatures nationwide: Who is responsible when a product bought from...
