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AM General Faces Michigan Breach of Contract Suit over $3M in Unpaid Bills
Mar 12 2018 // A Michigan company is suing AM General, alleging the vehicle manufacturer owes more than $3 million for contract work at its northern Indiana plant. Michigan-based Allied Industrial Group’s original contract called...
20-Year-Old Oregon Man Sues Dick’s, Walmart Over New Gun Policies
Mar 12 2018 // A 20-year-old man from Oregon has filed lawsuits against Dick’s Sporting Goods and Walmart, alleging the two retailers discriminated against him when they refused to sell him a rifle this week because of his...
How Insurer and Benefit Manager Mergers Squeeze Out Smaller Pharmacies
Mar 12 2018 // Over 20 years, Brian Komoto built a thriving pharmacy in California’s Central Valley. Each day, his nurses would travel the vast agricultural region’s roads to help hepatitis C patients take a grueling regimen...
S. Africa Class Action Planned Against Food Producer Tiger Brands After Listeria Outbreak
Mar 12 2018 // A human rights lawyer plans to launch a class action lawsuit against South African food producer Tiger Brands on behalf of the families of people who died and those affected by the worst listeria outbreak in history. South...
Feds Sue Compass Group USA for Sex Discrimination, Retaliation at Texas Workplace
Mar 9 2018 // Federal officials say Morrison Management Specialists Inc., a division of Compass Group USA Inc., unlawfully denied a promotion a female employee to an open sous chef position because of her gender. The Equal Employment...
Two More South Carolina Counties Sue Drug Companies Over Opioid Abuse
Mar 9 2018 // Two more South Carolina counties have sued major drug companies because of opioid abuse cases. Media outlets reported that Greenville and Spartanburg counties have sued drugmakers, pharmacies, distributors and doctors. The...
Judge Drops Cubs from Suit by Fan Blinded by Foul Ball
Mar 9 2018 // A judge has dismissed the Chicago Cubs from a lawsuit filed by a fan blinded in one eye by a foul ball at Wrigley Field. John Loos of Schaumburg, Illinois says in the lawsuit filed in October he was sitting along the...
Judge Says Trial Over Opioids May Be Necessary
Mar 9 2018 // A federal judge pushing for a settlement in lawsuits by state and local governments against drug companies over their roles in the U.S. opioid epidemic said on Wednesday that trials may be needed after both sides...
Barred Video Leads Texas Court to Reverse Jury Finding in Workers’ Comp Suit
Mar 8 2018 // The Texas Supreme Court has disagreed with the decision of a lower court to exclude, without having watched it, a company’s surveillance video of an injured employee in a workers’ compensation case. Because it...
Wrongful Death Suit Filed over Oklahoma Gas Rig Explosion
Mar 8 2018 // A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed over a natural gas rig explosion in southeastern Oklahoma that killed five men — three from Oklahoma, one from Texas and one from Colorado. The lawsuit by Dianna Waldridge, the...
Family Sues Companies Over 2016 Sioux Falls Building Collapse
Mar 8 2018 // The family of a man who died in a 2016 Sioux Falls, S.D., building collapse has filed two lawsuits alleging the developer and construction company were responsible for the tragedy. Construction worker Ethan McMahon died...
Los Angeles County to Pay Nearly $6M in Brain Damaged Inmate Suit
Mar 8 2018 // Los Angeles County officials have voted to pay nearly $6 million to settle a lawsuit that claimed a jail inmate was left brain damaged and disabled because his medical problems weren’t properly treated. The...
Suit Over Woman’s Fall at Party Reaches Michigan Supreme Court
Mar 7 2018 // A woman’s fall at a holiday party has reached the Michigan Supreme Court, which could use the case to clarify the responsibilities of property owners when they welcome guests to their home. The court heard arguments...
Insurers May Be on Hook for Dole Buyout Lawsuit Settlements
Mar 7 2018 // A Delaware judge says insurers may be on the hook for $190 million to settle two lawsuits stemming from a 2013 buyout in which Dole Food chairman and CEO David Murdock took the company private. In a ruling late last week,...
For U.S. Doctors, Being Sued Is Common Ailment
Mar 7 2018 // Getting sued is not an uncommon event for physicians. More than a third of physicians (34 percent) have had a claim filed against them at some point in their careers. Also, according to research from the American Medical...
Uber Sued in Pennsylvania After Data Stolen by Hackers Covered Up
Mar 7 2018 // The ride-hailing company Uber broke Pennsylvania law when it failed to notify potential victims, including thousands of drivers, for a year after it discovered hackers had stolen their personal information, said the state...
Sanofi Executive, Fired in France for Sexting, Sues for $1.5 Million
Mar 7 2018 // First he sent lewd texts. Then he got fired. Then he sued. The case of an alleged sex pest at drug giant Sanofi is the latest example of how France is confronting age-old attitudes toward the kind of behavior that...
Drugmakers Scale Back Marketing of Opioids
Mar 6 2018 // Purdue Pharma LP’s decision to stop promoting its opioid drugs to doctors is being hailed as the first result of a judge’s push for concrete solutions to a nationwide epidemic, even though the company says the...
Judge Stays Lawsuits over Oklahoma Earthquakes
Mar 5 2018 // Oklahoma residents who are suing oil and gas producers for earthquake damage to their homes and businesses must now wait for a federal judge’s decision in another case. Judge Phillip Corley granted a stay with a...
Property Owners Win $1M Jury Award in Ohio Turnpike Lawsuit
Mar 5 2018 // The owners of a parcel of less than a half-acre taken by Ohio’s turnpike commission for a construction project has won a $1 million judgment from a northeast Ohio jury for land the commission tried to acquire for...
