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Judge Allows Suit Over Nestle Claim Its Poland Spring Water Is From Natural Spring
Mar 29 2019 // A federal judge on Thursday rejected Nestle SA’s bid to dismiss a revised lawsuit claiming that it defrauded consumers by filling bottles of its Poland Spring water with ordinary groundwater. U.S. District Judge...
Duke University to Settle Whistleblower Suit Over Faked-Research for $112M
Mar 29 2019 // Duke University will pay $112 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit after federal prosecutors said a research technician’s fake data landed millions of dollars in federal grants, the school and the government...
Storage Tank Owner Sued by State, County Over Texas Petrochemical Fire
Mar 28 2019 // Texas officials on Tuesday sued owners of a Houston area petrochemical storage facility over a fire last week, alleging violations of environmental laws and seeking damages to cover response costs for the disaster that...
Zurich Sues Insured After Deadly Plane Crash in Georgia
Mar 28 2019 // An insurance company is suing a business whose chief executive was flying a plane that crashed in Georgia, killing him and three passengers. Federal court records show Zurich American Insurance Co. of Illinois is suing...
Louisiana Firm to Pay $70K to Settle Disability Discrimination Lawsuit
Mar 27 2019 // A packaging company in Monroe, Louisiana, has agreed to pay $70,000 in lost wages and damages, and provide other significant relief to settle a federal disability discrimination lawsuit. The suit filed by the U.S. Equal...
Lawsuit Blames Nevada Casino Restaurant for Salmonella
Mar 27 2019 // A Nevada man is suing the corporate owner of a casino restaurant in Elko where he says he was infected with salmonella after eating contaminated ham or eggs there earlier this month. Harry Wiseman of Elko says he is one of...
Vanderbilt University Hospital Sued for $25M for Operating on Wrong Kidney
Mar 26 2019 // A Tennessee woman says Vanderbilt University Medical Center operated on the wrong kidney during her surgery in what federal officials call a “never event.” The Tennessean reports Carla Miller says the error...
J&J, Bayer Deny Liability But Settle 25,000 Xarelto Lawsuits for $775 Million
Mar 26 2019 // Bayer AG and Johnson & Johnson have agreed to settle more than 25,000 U.S. lawsuits alleging that their blockbuster blood thinner Xarelto caused unstoppable and in some cases fatal bleeding for a total of $775 million,...
California Judges Target Class Actions That Benefit Lawyers Over Consumers
Mar 26 2019 // Federal judges in California are cracking down on warped incentives in class-action lawsuits, exerting tighter oversight of settlements that provide hefty fees for plaintiff lawyers but no meaningful benefit for those...
Purdue to Settle Oklahoma’s Opioids Lawsuit Weeks Before Trial to Open
Mar 26 2019 // Purdue Pharma LP has agreed to settle a lawsuit by the state of Oklahoma accusing the OxyContin painkiller maker of helping fuel an opioid abuse epidemic, a person familiar with the matter said. It is the first settlement...
Escalating War Over Ads, MillerCoors Sues Anheuser-Busch in Wisconsin
Mar 25 2019 // A fight between beer giants escalated after MillerCoors filed a lawsuit against Anheuser-Busch that accused its rival of trying to “frighten” consumers into switching to Bud Light with “misleading”...
Washington Teacher Agrees to $850K to Withdraw Discrimination Suit
Mar 25 2019 // The Sequim School District in Washington has agreed that a former middle school teacher and athletic director will receive $850,000 to withdraw her sexual orientation discrimination lawsuit. The Peninsula Daily News...
Supreme Court Denies Amazon’s Bid to Halt Suit Over Hack of Zappos
Mar 25 2019 // The U.S. Supreme Court turned away an appeal by Amazon.com Inc.’s Zappos unit, letting a lawsuit proceed over a 2012 hack that exposed the personal information of 24 million customers. The online shoe and clothing...
New Jersey Sues California Company Over ‘Ghost Guns’
Mar 25 2019 // New Jersey’s attorney general announced a lawsuit Friday against a California company that sells mail-order firearms parts that can be turned into working weapons, the first such action the state has taken since it...
This Corn Syrup Ad Lawsuit from MillerCoors Is For You, Bud Light
Mar 25 2019 // MillerCoors, maker of Miller Lite and Coors Lite beers, has sued Anheuser-Busch InBev, maker of Bud Light, claiming that Bud Light’s ads that debuted during this year’s Super Bowl over corn syrup are false and...
Relationship Between Boeing, FAA Safety Regulators Under Scrutiny
Mar 25 2019 // Soon after Lion Air Flight 610 plummeted into the Java Sea last October, killing all 189 people aboard, Boeing Co. began to point gingerly toward mistakes the airline may have made. A preliminary report by Indonesian...
Houston Channel Still Closed as Chemical Fire Cleanup Continues; Texas Sues ITC
Mar 24 2019 // Vessels will be allowed to enter a tributary to the Houston Ship Channel this morning, a workaround allowing some shipping in the area as the main route into the region remains closed as a result of a cloud of...
Bill Limiting Suits Against Mississippi Property Owners Heads to Governor
Mar 22 2019 // A bill that would make it harder for people to sue Mississippi property owners for some injuries is headed to Gov. Phil Bryant for his signature or veto. The state Senate on Tuesday voted 31-21 to concur with changes that...
Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Texas to Pay $75K to Settle Disability Discrimination Suit
Mar 22 2019 // Federal employment regulators say BlueCross/Blue Shield of Texas (BCBS), based in Dallas, will pay $75,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit. According to the suit filed by the U.S....
Paralyzed California Man Settles Shooting Lawsuit for $2.5M
Mar 22 2019 // Three California police departments have reached a settlement with a man who was paralyzed after being shot by officers. The Fresno Bee reported this week that 19-year-old Adonis Serna has reached a $2.5 million settlement...
