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A California New Car Group Sues Volkswagen and Affiliate for Violating Franchise Laws
Apr 24 2025 // The California New Car Dealers Association filed a lawsuit against Volkswagen and its affiliate, Scout Motors, for allegedly violating California’s franchise laws. The CNCDA lawsuit, filed in in San Diego County...
Class Action Accuses Toyota of Illegally Sharing Drivers’ Data With Progressive
Apr 23 2025 // A federal class action lawsuit filed this week in Texas accused Toyota and an affiliated telematics aggregator of unlawfully collecting drivers’ information and then selling that data to Progressive. The lawsuit...
Lawsuits Accuse Insurers of Colluding to Drop Coverage in Fire-Prone Parts of California
Apr 23 2025 // Two lawsuits filed in Los Angeles allege major home insurance companies have colluded to limit coverage in California communities at high risk for wildfires and force homeowners onto the state’s last-resort insurance...
Lawsuits Against BP Over Health Impacts of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Stalled
Apr 22 2025 // Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons (500 million liters) of crude gushing into the ocean, the effects of the nation’s worst...
Marsh Sues Aon, Ex-Team Leader Over Exit of 20 Construction Surety Employees
Apr 22 2025 // Global insurance broker Marsh USA filed suit against competitor Aon and a former Marsh team leader for allegedly poaching key members of Marsh’s construction surety team who resigned and moved to Aon last month. A...
Tesla Settles Wrongful Death Lawsuit Claiming Sudden Acceleration in Ohio Crash
Apr 22 2025 // Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company Tesla has agreed to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the estate of a man who was killed in 2021 after his Tesla crashed and caught fire near Dayton, Ohio. Tesla and...
Shopify Must Face Data Privacy Lawsuit in US
Apr 22 2025 // A U.S. appeals court on Monday revived a proposed data privacy class action against Shopify, a decision that could make it easier for American courts to assert jurisdiction over internet-based platforms. In a 10-1...
Tesla Settles Employee’s California Suit Alleging Pervasive Harassment
Apr 21 2025 // Tesla settled a racial discrimination lawsuit by a Black female employee who claimed a manager at its Fremont, California, plant sometimes greeted workers by saying “welcome to the plantation” or “welcome...
State Farm Wins Dismissal of Class Action Over Xactimate Software
Apr 21 2025 // A federal judge has dismissed a proposed class action filed on behalf of Pennsylvania homeowners who believe that State Farm undervalued their property damage claims in its use of the Xactimate software that is popular...
Group Sues California Department of Insurance Over FAIR Plan Surcharges
Apr 16 2025 // A consumer advocacy group has sued the California Department of Insurance and Commissioner Ricardo Lara to block hundreds of millions of dollars in surcharges that could soon appear on California homeowners’...
California’s Newsom Sues Trump Over ‘Chaos’ of Tariff Regime
Apr 16 2025 // California Governor Gavin Newsom sued to halt Donald Trump’s tariffs, setting up a high-stakes legal challenge to the president’s landmark effort to overhaul global trade. The state is challenging Trump’s...
Google Faces £5 Billion Lawsuit in UK for Abusing Dominance in Online Search
Apr 16 2025 // Alphabet’s Google is being sued in Britain for potential damages of up to 5 billion pounds ($6.6 billion) in a class action alleging the company abused its dominant market position in the online search industry. The...
Law Students Sue Civil Rights Agency Over Crackdown on Law-Firm DEI Policies
Apr 16 2025 // Three law students on Tuesday sued a U.S. civil rights agency, claiming that its probe into diversity policies at 20 large law firms is illegal and could expose the personal information of lawyers and job applicants. The...
APCIA Says Floridians Agree: Insurance Litigation Changes Are Working. Don’t Undo
Apr 16 2025 // Florida’s property insurance market is an example of the powerful impact that strong legislative reforms can have in addressing a crisis. Other states, like Georgia, have seen the benefits of Florida’s legal...
Judge Orders Bank of America to Pay $540 Million in FDIC Lawsuit
Apr 15 2025 // A federal judge ordered Bank of America to pay $540.3 million in a long-running Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation lawsuit accusing the second-largest U.S. bank of underpaying what it owed for deposit insurance. In a...
Texas Lawsuit Accuses Copart of Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment
Apr 15 2025 // A lawsuit filed in Texas this month accuses online vehicle auction provider Copart of gender discrimination, retaliation and sexual harassment. Christine Arnold, a former global vice president of human resources for...
Advocacy Group Files Suit Over Tariffs in US Court of International Trade
Apr 15 2025 // A legal advocacy group on Monday asked the U.S. Court of International Trade to block President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on foreign trading partners, arguing the president overstepped his authority. The...
Allstate Agent Can Be Sued Over Nonrenewal of ‘Grandfathered’ Flood Insurance Policy
Apr 15 2025 // A Connecticut agent for Allstate Insurance may be sued by an insured who faults the agent for not renewing a flood insurance policy in a timely fashion, thereby depriving the insured of the benefit of...
EEOC Sues Illinois Shipping Company Under Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
Apr 14 2025 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sued R&L Carriers Shared Services, LLC, a freight transportation and logistics company, to enforce a subpoena that the EEOC issued during their investigation of a...
Texas Man Suing Tennessee Titans Player Over Shooting at Car Lot
Apr 14 2025 // A Texas man who says Titans cornerback L’Jarius Sneed or his personal assistant shot at him while he was sitting inside a Mercedes-Benz on a dealer lot in December is suing the two-time Super Bowl champ for at least...
