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Oklahoma’s Supreme Court Says Oil Company Can Be Sued After Worker Injury or Death
Feb 5 2018 // The Oklahoma Supreme Court has ruled that oil and natural gas companies can be sued when a worker is killed or injured on the job. The state’s highest court struck down a state workers’ compensation law that...
Texas AG Sues Tree Company Over Deadly, Damaging 2011 Wildfire
Feb 5 2018 // Texas is suing a vegetation management company that it alleges caused the 2011 Bastrop County Complex Fire, the most destructive wildfire in Texas history. The lawsuit filed on Jan. 19 by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton...
Texas Town Reaches $10.4M Settlement in 2013 Fertilizer Plant Blast Suit
Feb 5 2018 // A Central Texas town devastated by a 2013 fertilizer plant explosion that killed 15 people, many of them emergency personnel, has reached a settlement of its lawsuit for damages caused by the blast. The city council in...
Top 10 Employment Discrimination Charges in 2017
Feb 5 2018 // A total of 84,254 workplace discrimination charges were filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) nationwide during fiscal year (FY) 2017, according to the federal agency. The EEOC said it secured $398...
Jury Finds AbbVie Not Liable in AndroGel Injury Suit
Feb 5 2018 // A federal jury in Chicago on Jan. 26 found AbbVie Inc. not liable in a lawsuit by an Arizona man who claimed he had suffered a pulmonary embolism due to using the company’s testosterone replacement medication...
Opioid Makers Sued by Another Washington County
Feb 2 2018 // Clallam County in Washington is joining more than 200 other litigants in suing opioid makers and wholesale distributors for damages over prescription opioids. The Peninsula Daily News reports county commissioners are...
Court Blocks Suit Claiming Twitter Liable for U.S. Contractors’ Deaths in Jordan
Feb 2 2018 // A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected a lawsuit that sought to hold Twitter liable for the deaths of two U.S. contractors in Jordan three years ago in an attack for which the Islamic State group claimed...
Wisconsin Residential Care Provider to Pay $80K to Settle Discrimination Lawsuit
Feb 1 2018 // Silverado, a network of memory care, at-home care, and hospice care centers, will pay $80,000 to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency has...
French Dairy Group Likely Sold Contaminated Baby Milk for Years; Multiple Suits Filed
Feb 1 2018 // French dairy group Lactalis may have been producing salmonella-tainted baby milk for more than a decade, its CEO was quoted as saying on Thursday, adding the growing food safety crisis was likely to cost the company...
Man Suing Bar Near Oregon University over Freak Finger Injury
Jan 31 2018 // A man is suing a popular tavern near the University of Oregon, claiming a freak injury at the bar has left him unable to pursue “a host of attractive, lucrative careers” in music and medicine. The...
Puerto Rico Bondholders Suffer Setback as Lawsuit Dismissed
Jan 31 2018 // A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit by some of Puerto Rico’s bondholders, who had argued that the U.S. territory broke the law by defaulting on constitutionally-guaranteed debt despite having the...
Lowe’s to Pay $55K for to Settle Charges of Discrimination at Texas Store
Jan 30 2018 // Lowe’s Home Centers LLC, a nationwide chain of home improvement and hardware stores, will pay $55,000 and provide other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of a manager at one of the...
Detroit’s Greektown Casino to Settle Disability Discrimination Suit for $140K
Jan 30 2018 // A Detroit casino operator has consented to pay $140,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by federal officials. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) reported that its lawsuit charged...
Provost of Arizona University Dealing with Gender Lawsuit
Jan 30 2018 // University of Arizona Provost Andrew Comrie is facing scrutiny following a $2 million federal lawsuit filed by former Dean Patricia MacCorquodale over gender discrimination. The Arizona Daily Star reports the lawsuit made...
Number of Securities Class Actions Up But Settlement Values Down
Jan 30 2018 // The number of class action lawsuits in the United States accusing companies of fraud and other securities law violations soared in 2017, topping one a day even as the value of settlements plunged, a study released on...
Trump’s SEC Considering Shielding Companies from Investor Class Action Suits
Jan 29 2018 // In its determination to reverse a two-decade slump in U.S. stock listings, a regulator might offer companies an extreme incentive to go public: the ability to bar aggrieved shareholders from suing. The Securities and...
Jury Finds AbbVie Not Liable in AndroGel Injury Suit
Jan 29 2018 // A federal jury in Chicago on Friday found AbbVie Inc. not liable in a lawsuit by an Arizona man who claimed he had suffered a pulmonary embolism due to using the company’s testosterone replacement medication...
Mother of “The Walking Dead” Stuntman Killed on Georgia Set Files Wrongful Death Suit
Jan 29 2018 // The mother of a stuntman who fell to his death on the set of “The Walking Dead” in Georgia has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the show’s network and other parties, saying unreasonably low budgets...
Hartford Steam Boiler Launches HSB Cyber Suite for Mid-Sized Businesses
Jan 26 2018 // Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company (HSB), part of Munich Re, has introduced HSB Cyber Suite, a comprehensive cyber insurance coverage designed for small to mid-sized businesses and other...
West, Texas, Accepts $10.4M Settlement in 2013 Fertilizer Plant Blast Suit
Jan 26 2018 // A Central Texas town devastated by a 2013 fertilizer plant explosion that killed 15 people, many of them emergency personnel, has reached a settlement of its lawsuit for damages caused by the blast. The city council in...
