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Markel Says It Is Resolving Suits Filed by Fired CatCo Executives
Jul 16 2019 // Markel Corp. appears on the way to settling with two former employees who sued over unpaid bonuses after they were dismissed for allegedly having a personal relationship that Markel said violated company policy. The...
New Jersey Judge Says Lifeguard Can’t Be Sued Over Beach Collision
Jul 16 2019 // A New Jersey judge has ruled that a lifeguard who collided with a woman as he ran to cover a vacated lifeguard stand is protected by state’s Good Samaritan Act. The woman had sued North Wildwood, its beach patrol and...
Ripley Entertainment Settles Some Missouri Duck Boat Lawsuits
Jul 15 2019 // A company that owns a duck boat that sank on a Missouri lake last summer, killing 17 people, said that it has settled or is in the process of settling more than half of the lawsuits it faces. KYTV reports that Ripley...
U.S. Opens Criminal Probe Into J&J Denials of Cancer Risks from Baby Powder
Jul 15 2019 // The U.S. Justice Department is pursuing a criminal investigation into whether Johnson & Johnson lied to the public about the possible cancer risks of its talcum powder, people with knowledge of the matter said. The...
Texas Supreme Court Closes ‘Trapdoor’ Pretrial Ploy that Exposed Defendants to Sanctions
Jul 15 2019 // Insurance companies should take note of a recent ruling by the Supreme Court of Texas that closes a “trapdoor” pretrial discovery gambit by plaintiffs’ lawyers that exposed defendants to sanctions for...
Cyber Alert: New Era in Privacy Liability to Begin. California’s Data Privacy Law Could Be Game-Changer
Jul 15 2019 // As the nation’s most far-reaching data privacy law, California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), is set to begin Jan. 1, 2020, businesses and their insurers are preparing for a new era in cyber liability. Anxiety is on...
Rhode Island Governor Vetoes Bill on Suing Car Insurance Companies
Jul 12 2019 // Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo has vetoed a bill that would have allowed individuals to sue auto insurers for triple damages if their vehicle is totaled. The Democratic governor says the bill, which is supported by...
London’s Uber Drivers Sue City’s Mayor for ‘Discriminatory’ New Levy
Jul 12 2019 // London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s decision to charge Uber Technologies Inc. drivers to operate in the city center amounts to racial discrimination and puts some out of business, lawyers for the drivers said Wednesday in...
Landscape Changed for Kansas Medical Malpractice Suits with Court Ruling
Jul 12 2019 // Brenda Lundeen went in for routine surgery to relieve heavy periods. What the Overland Park mom and grade schoolteacher got was a nightmare, as a medical mistake caused 194-degree water to pour through a hole in her uterus...
Harvard University Invests in Litigation Finance Fund
Jul 12 2019 // Harvard University is committing more capital to a strategy that backs plaintiffs in commercial disputes, delivering robust uncorrelated returns. The strategy is run by IMF Bentham Ltd., a publicly traded company which...
Court Allows $30M Tennessee Hoverboard Fire Suit Against Amazon to Proceed
Jul 12 2019 // A Tennessee family can press its lawsuit against online retailer Amazon over a hoverboard fire that destroyed their home, an appeals court has ruled, saying the company was aware of complaints about the devices catching...
Minnesota Construction Workers’ Lawsuit Accuses Employer of Wage Theft
Jul 11 2019 // A group of Rochester, Minnesota-area construction workers are pursuing a wage theft claim, testing a new state law that aims to clamp down on companies that don’t pay for labor. Minnesota Department of Labor and...
How Lawyers, Not Plaintiffs, Wind Up the Winners in Mass Tort Lawsuits
Jul 11 2019 // Brooke Melton died on her 29th birthday. Her Chevy randomly shut off in the middle of the highway a little before 8 p.m., and she crashed into a creek in Atlanta. A couple hours later, her parents were notified by the...
Federal Court Says Amazon Can Be Sued Over Defective Product
Jul 11 2019 // A federal appeals court has ruled that Amazon can be sued over a defective product sold by one of its third-party vendors. A Pennsylvania woman sued after a retractable dog leash she bought online snapped and hit her four...
J&J Gets New Trial After Jury Awards $417 Million in Baby Powder Talc Suit
Jul 11 2019 // Johnson & Johnson deserves a new trial after a jury ordered the world’s largest maker of health-care products to pay $417 million to a woman who blamed the company’s iconic Baby Powder for causing her...
Plant-Based Food Makers Sue Mississippi Over Meat Labeling Law
Jul 11 2019 // A federal lawsuit says Mississippi is violating free-speech rights by banning makers of plant-based foods from using terms such as “meatless meatballs” and “vegan bacon.” The lawsuit against...
Family of Massachusetts Youth Killed in Blast Settles Suit Against Company
Jul 10 2019 // The family of a teenager killed during a 2018 gas explosion that injured a dozen others and destroyed scores of homes in three Boston suburbs settled its lawsuit against Columbia Gas of Massachusetts on Tuesday. Leonel...
Server Joins Federal Pregnancy Discrimination Suit Against N. Dakota Restaurant
Jul 9 2019 // A federal judge will allow a waitress who claims she was fired because of her pregnancy to join a lawsuit against a Bismarck restaurant. The judge decided Erica Davidson is within her rights to intervene in the Equal...
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York Sues Insurers Over Future Abuse Claims
Jul 8 2019 // The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York has sued more than two dozen insurance companies, seeking to compel them to cover claims filed by people who say they were abused by clerics. Church officials anticipate that...
Cambridge Analytica Data Scientist Drops Defamation Suit Against Facebook
Jul 8 2019 // Aleksandr Kogan, the data scientist at the center of Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, said he is dropping a defamation lawsuit against the social network rather than engage in an expensive, drawn-out...
