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Horse Trainer Suit Alleges Vets Altered X-Ray Dates of Horses at Kentucky Auction
Feb 12 2019 // A lawsuit filed Thursday accuses veterinarians of falsifying the dates on X-rays of horse sold at public auction at the Keeneland racetrack. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports the lawsuit was brought Tom Swearingen, a...
Judge Pauses Lawsuits Against Crypto Exchange as It Hunts for Missing Password
Feb 7 2019 // A cryptocurrency platform that lost access to millions of dollars when its founder died with sole knowledge of company passwords has been granted a temporary reprieve from creditor lawsuits. Halifax judge Michael Wood on...
Las Vegas Artist Sues Ariana Grande Over Image
Feb 7 2019 // A Las Vegas artist is suing pop music star Ariana Grande, alleging federal copyright infringement over an image of a woman in a candle flame in the pop star’s widely-viewed “God is a Woman” music...
Boeing Sued for Negligence in Southern California Wildfire
Feb 7 2019 // Boeing Co. was accused of negligence tied to a wildfire that tore through Malibu, California, in November and that purportedly started on the grounds of the nearby, disused Rocketdyne testing site. A group of homeowners...
Uber Faces $1.3B Tax Suit in UK from Lawyer Who Won Major Brexit Ruling
Feb 7 2019 // The lawyer who spearheaded a landmark court case — which ended with the European Union’s top court ruling that the U.K. can unilaterally reverse Brexit — appeared in court Wednesday for a fresh battle,...
1970s Musicians Sue for ‘Second Chance’ to Reclaim Their Songs
Feb 7 2019 // David Johansen, John Waite and other prominent 1970s musicians filed lawsuits on Tuesday accusing Sony Music Entertainment Inc. and UMG Recordings Inc. of improperly refusing to let them reclaim rights to songs they had...
New Mexico County to Pay $1.75M to Settle Suits over Deadly 2017 Shooting
Feb 6 2019 // New Mexico’s Bernalillo County will pay almost $2 million to settle a series of lawsuits stemming from a deputy’s 2017 fatal shooting of two unarmed suspects. KRQE-TV reports the county will make a $1.75...
Thousands of Lawsuits Demanding PG&E Pay for Damages from Wildfires
Feb 5 2019 // Some 1,000 lawsuits have been filed since late 2017 demanding Pacific Gas & Electric Corporation pay for damages caused by wildfires. The lawsuits represent thousands of people, companies, cities and counties affected...
Employees with Sexual Harassment Case Against Lehman Still Waiting
Feb 5 2019 // Sexist comments, lewd gestures — and worse. Allegations like these are sorely familiar in the #MeToo era. Only this time, they hail from what seems like Wall Street’s Dark Ages: back when Lehman Brothers was...
J&J Reported to Settle Most Pinnacle Hip Implant Lawsuits
Feb 5 2019 // Johnson & Johnson, the world’s largest maker of health-care products, has agreed to settle the bulk of consumers’ lawsuits alleging it sold defective artificial hips and misled patients about their dangers,...
CSX Settles Civil Suit in Train Death of Film Worker in Georgia
Feb 4 2019 // A railroad owner settled a wrongful death lawsuit by the family of a film worker killed in 2014 when a train slammed into a crew shooting a movie about singer Gregg Allman, ending the company’s appeal of a $3.9...
States’ Power Grab to Ease Food Laws Emerges as Public Health Issue
Feb 4 2019 // In recent years, more than a dozen states have passed laws limiting local governments’ ability to create food and nutrition policies and more than two dozen states previously enacted laws preventing obesity-related...
Expert Ponders California Wildfire Commission, Other Solutions to State’s Severe Seasons
Feb 4 2019 // Establishing a California Wildfire Commission is just one idea an expert is tossing out to help the state deal with worsening fire seasons. James Woods was formerly co-leader of Mayer Brown’s Global Insurance...
Maryland Insurance Agency Settles Gender Discrimination Lawsuit
Feb 1 2019 // The Maryland Insurance Administration has settled a lawsuit over gender-based pay discrimination. News outlets report the agency will pay nearly $37,000 to three female fraud investigators who say they were paid less than...
Victims of Floor Collapse at Party Near Clemson Deal With Recovery, Lawsuits
Feb 1 2019 // For Nicole Dennis, Oct. 20 started out as a fun night. The Greenville resident and University of South Carolina junior was on fall break and visiting friends in Clemson. She decided to join them at a party for...
Utah Ski Crash Lawsuit Names Gwyneth Paltrow
Jan 31 2019 // Actress Gwyneth Paltrow has been accused in a new lawsuit Tuesday of breaking a man’s ribs and leaving him with a concussion when she smashed into him from behind while skiing at a Utah ski resort in 2016. Retired...
California Bail Industry Keeps Premiums High, Lawsuit Alleges
Jan 31 2019 // A lawsuit filed on behalf of bail customers claims surety companies and agents in California conspire to keep premiums high. The Los Angeles Times reported public-interest groups filed the suit this week in Alameda County...
Lawsuit Alleges Marriott Failure to Protect Employee Against Guests’ Sexual Misconduct
Jan 30 2019 // Leticia Vallejo, a housekeeper at a Marriott hotel in Irvine, California, said that back in the summer of 2017, a drunk male guest groped her while she was cleaning the hotel lobby bathroom. As he did so, he offered her...
Lawyer Suit Says FaceTime Eavesdropped on Talks with Client
Jan 30 2019 // Apple Inc. was sued by a Houston lawyer who claims his iPhone inadvertently allowed an unknown person to eavesdrop on his private conversation with a client. Apple has come under fire for a bug in its iOS 12.1 iPhone...
Expert Ponders California Wildfire Commission, Other Solutions to State’s Severe Seasons
Jan 29 2019 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Establishing a California Wildfire Commission is just one idea an expert is tossing out to help the state deal with worsening fire seasons. James Woods was formerly co-leader of Mayer...
