Latest Lawsuits Headlines
All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oil Companies Ask to Throw Out New York’s Climate Change Lawsuit
Jun 15 2018 // A group of the world’s biggest oil companies asked a judge to throw out New York City’s lawsuit seeking to hold them responsible for costs related to climate change. ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil Corp. and...
CSX in West Virginia Settles Discrimination Suit for $3.2M
Jun 15 2018 // CSX Transportation in West Virginia and the federal government have settled a lawsuit that accused CSX of discriminatory hiring practices for $3.2 million. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports the lawsuit accused CSX of...
Massachusetts Sues Opioid Maker Purdue Pharma, Executives
Jun 14 2018 // Massachusetts on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma LP, accusing the OxyContin maker of illegally promoting the use of opioids, and became the first state to sue the drugmaker’s executives and directors to...
Minnesota Supreme Court: Son Can Sue Father Over Hunting Accident
Jun 13 2018 // A Minnesota man has taken a lawsuit against his father all the way to the Minnesota Supreme Court. And dad is just fine with that. The Supreme Court this week clarified a state law on public access for hunting, clearing...
S.C. Supreme Court: Defense Counsel Can Be Sued for Malpractice by Insurer
Jun 13 2018 // The South Carolina Supreme Court recently opined that an insurer can sue an attorney it hired to defend its policyholder for malpractice. The high court in the case of Sentry Select Insurance Company v. Maybank Law Firm,...
University of Minnesota Sued by Former, Current Football Players
Jun 12 2018 // Nine black former and current University of Minnesota football players who say their rights were violated in a sexual misconduct investigation sued the school on Friday, alleging they are victims of racial and gender...
How to Get Really Rich Off Litigation Financing: Viewpoint
Jun 12 2018 // Top corporate lawyers can take home millions of dollars a year, but until recently it was all but impossible for investors to share in the spoils ā only a handful of U.K. and Australian law firms have gone public and...
Air Ambulances’ Sky-High Charges Leave Reimbursement Gaps, Lawsuits
Jun 11 2018 // When three-year-old West Cox’s fever hit 107 degrees, doctors called a helicopter. Hours earlier, the toddler, who’d been prescribed an antibiotic for a suspected ear infection, was at home in Princeton, West...
Survivors of Nightclub Shooting in Orlando Sue City, Police
Jun 11 2018 // Almost two years after a massacre at an Orlando nightclub left 49 people dead and 53 injured, some of the surviving victims were filing a lawsuit in federal court Thursday saying the city and police didn’t do enough...
New Mexico County Suing over Opioid Crisis
Jun 8 2018 // A northwestern New Mexico county is the latest to sue over the opioid crisis. Lawyers for San Juan County filed the challenge late last week against numerous pharmaceutical companies and distributors. The county is seeking...
North Dakota Construction Firm to Pay $59K to Settle Sexual Harassment Suit
Jun 8 2018 // A North Dakota civil construction company operating in Minot will pay $59,000 to settle a sexual harassment and constructive discharge lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The...
Opioid Maker Wants Alaska Lawsuit Dismissed
Jun 7 2018 // An attorney for Purdue Pharma, the company that makes the prescription opioid painkiller OxyContin, has told an Alaska judge that there is an opioid crisis but the state has no legal basis for trying to pin that crisis on...
Lawsuit Filed Against Hawaiian Restaurant Chain After Data Breach
Jun 7 2018 // Two people have filed a class-action lawsuit against Hawaii restaurant chain Zippy’s. Zippy’s alerted its customers April 27 that it experienced a data breach at all of its 25 restaurant, Napoleon’s...
Indiana Hospital to Pay $15K to Settle Disability Discrimination Lawsuit
Jun 6 2018 // St. Vincent Hospital and Health Care Center Inc. in Indiana must pay $15,000 and furnish other relief to resolve a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the...
Family Files Suit Over Woman’s Death in Texas Hotel During Harvey
Jun 6 2018 // A woman whose body was found 11 days after she made a frantic cellphone call from a Houston hotel elevator as floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey rushed in exited the elevator in the basement only to struggle against a...
South Carolina Jury Awards $12M Against Toyota in SUV Crash Suit
Jun 6 2018 // A South Carolina jury has awarded $12 million to the family of a high school senior who died after an axle fractured on her SUV almost six years ago. The Greenville News reports an Anderson County jury ruled in the case of...
Former Pitcher Sambito Sues Agency He Worked for in Calfornia
Jun 4 2018 // Former major league pitcher Joe Sambito has sued the company that employed him as an agent, claiming wrongful termination and age discrimination. Sambito filed the suit in California Superior Court in Orange County against...
Ohio School District to Pay Nearly $500K to Settle Sex Abuse Lawsuits
Jun 4 2018 // A central Ohio school district has agreed to pay nearly a half-million dollars to settle lawsuits filed by families of students who were sexually abused by a teacher. The Columbus Dispatch reports that the Olentangy Local...
GM Settles Suit with Motorcyclist Hit By Autonomous Vehicle in California
Jun 4 2018 // General Motors Co. agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by a motorcyclist involved in a minor crash with one of its self-driving cars in San Francisco late last year, the U.S. automaker said on Friday. Oscar Nilsson sued GM in...
$4M Settlement Reached In Lawsuit Over Boating Death
Jun 4 2018 // The parents of a man who died in a Virginia boating accident have reached a $4 million settlement in a lawsuit they filed over his death. Graham McCormick’s family sued his friend, John Randolph Hooper of Richmond,...
