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University of Alaska, Former Professor Sued over Sexual Misconduct Allegations
May 22 2019 // A lawsuit has been filed against a retired University of Alaska Anchorage anthropology professor who is banned from campus over sexual misconduct allegations by multiple women. David Yesner is named in the federal lawsuit...
Hawaii Condo Owners Suing Building Contractor
May 22 2019 // Members of a Hawaii condominium association have filed a lawsuit saying the building is unsafe and uninhabitable. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported that the lawsuit filed by owners of units in the 3-year-old Waiea...
Boeing Sued by French Widow in U.S. for $276 Million Over Ethiopian Crash
May 22 2019 // A French woman whose husband died in the crash of a Boeing 737 MAX airliner in Ethiopia has filed a U.S. lawsuit against the planemaker, seeking at least $276 million in damages. The crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight 302...
Nevada Reaches Tentative Settlement Homeowners and Insurers in Wildfire Suit
May 21 2019 // The state of Nevada has reached a tentative settlement with dozens of homeowners and insurance companies that filed an $80 million negligence lawsuit after a fire destroyed 24 homes when strong winds reignited a smoldering...
Equal Pay Lawsuit Settled With Kansas School District
May 20 2019 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has settled its lawsuit against a Kansas school district that paid a female principal less than it paid the man she had replaced and less than the man who succeeded her. A...
Scooter Accidents Leading to Big Ticket Claims at Disney Parks
May 20 2019 // Early at the Magic Kingdom entrance, it’s another day of fun about to begin as “Yo Ho, Yo Ho, A Pirate’s Life For Me!” blasts on the speakers and the first electric scooters are lined up to go. But...
Tentative Settlement Reached in Hawaii Brewery Lawsuit
May 20 2019 // The parent company of a Hawaii brewery has agreed on a tentative settlement with the plaintiffs in a lawsuit over allegations that the company’s packaging and advertising misleads customers. West Hawaii Today...
Lawsuit Says Utah Bus Driver Was Sick, Tired Before Fatal Crash
May 17 2019 // A Greyhound driver who authorities say fell asleep before the bus careened off a road in the Utah desert two years ago was tired, sick and should never have been behind the wheel, according to a new lawsuit over the crash...
California Bill to Expand Customer Ability to Sue over Handling of Data Fails
May 17 2019 // California’s senate blocked a bill on Thursday that would have expanded the ability of consumers to sue companies over their handling of personal data, a win for tech industry groups concerned about wide-ranging...
Missouri Statute Update Shields Insurers from Certain Bad Faith Litigation
May 17 2019 // In Missouri, insurance companies owe a contractual duty to defend civil actions that allege liability of their insureds that is potentially covered under the terms of the subject insurance policy. As part of that duty, the...
‘Pooey Puitton’ Lawsuit Against Louis Vuitton Goes Nowhere
May 17 2019 // Louis Vuitton has won the dismissal of a lawsuit by a California toy company that accused the French luxury goods maker of trying to interfere with its sales of a poop-shaped toy purse for children, Pooey Puitton. U.S....
Bayer’s Strategy on Roundup Litigation Rests on EPA Glyphosate Finding
May 17 2019 // Bayer AG plans to argue that a $2 billion jury award and thousands of U.S. lawsuits claiming its glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup causes cancer should be tossed because a U.S. regulatory agency said the herbicide is...
5 More States Sue Purdue Over OxyContin Marketing
May 17 2019 // Purdue Pharma LP and its billionaire owners are being sued by five more states alleging the company’s aggressive marketing of the OxyContin painkiller triggered a vast addiction epidemic that has claimed hundreds of...
Maker of OxyContin Gets Hit with Another State Lawsuit
May 16 2019 // The company that makes OxyContin did not stop pitching the powerful opioid painkiller to doctors even when its sales representatives raised concerns that they were prescribing the drug inappropriately, the Pennsylvania...
Gymnasts to Texas Lawmakers: Allow Sex Abuse Victims to Sue Institutions
May 16 2019 // Former U.S. national team gymnasts backing a Texas bill that would allow victims of sexual abuse more time to sue in civil court on Monday urged the state’s lawmakers to restore a key provision allowing those...
Milliman: Hurricane Katrina Litigation Could Hike Mississippi Homeowners Rates
May 16 2019 // Mississippi homeowners could see premiums rise up to 25 percent thanks to Hurricane Katrina-related subrogation litigation being brought by the Mississippi attorney general, according to a recent report by Milliman. The...
Kansas Supreme Court: Bars Can’t Be Sued by Drunken Driving Victims
May 15 2019 // The Kansas Supreme Court has upheld a 34-year-old rule that prohibits victims injured by drunken drivers from suing the bars that served them. The high court’s ruling on May 10 came in the case of Jeff Kudlacik, who...
Minnesota Clergy Abuse Victims to Sue Vatican, Seek Abusers’ Names
May 15 2019 // Five men who say they were sexually abused by Roman Catholic priests when they were minors are planning to sue the Vatican and are demanding the names of thousands of predator priests they claim have been kept secret by...
Nevada Security Firm Sued in 2 Deaths Involving Guards
May 15 2019 // The Las Vegas branch of a national security firm is facing two wrongful death lawsuits in Nevada stemming from encounters with guards employed by the company. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported one lawsuit was filed in...
French Press Maker Denies Defect, Sues Starbucks for Product Disparagement
May 15 2019 // Bodum Holding AG sued Starbucks Corp. on Friday for alleged product disparagement in connection with the coffee company’s recent U.S. and Canadian recall of 263,200 co-branded French presses made from recycled...
