Latest Lawsuits Headlines
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Iowa Agrees to Pay $1.1M in Lawsuit Over Worker Injury, Firing
Jan 11 2018 // An Iowa board has approved payment of nearly $1.1 million in a lawsuit by a former state worker who said the state Natural Resources Department fired him because of a work injury. A judge had ordered the state to pay John...
Parents Sue Oregon School District for $1.7M Over Daughter’s Back Injury
Jan 11 2018 // Parents of an Oregon girl who slipped and fractured her back while attempting to walk into school on a snowy day have filed a $1.7 million lawsuit against the Lake Oswego School District. The Oregonian/OregonLive reported...
New York Sues Fossil Fuel Majors, Plans Divestment from Pension Funds
Jan 11 2018 // New York City announced on Wednesday that it filed a multibillion dollar lawsuit against five top oil companies, citing their “contributions to global warming,” as it said it would divest fossil fuel...
Penn State Settles Suit Over Alleged Sandusky Abuse in 2007
Jan 11 2018 // Penn State has settled a lawsuit by a man who claimed former university assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky molested him in a car in 2007, when the man was about 14 years old. The settlement notice was posted Monday on...
Ford Denies Truck Owners’ Claims of Diesel Cheating
Jan 11 2018 // Ford Motor Co. installed software that enabled its F-250 and F-350 Super Duty trucks to cheat at passing federal emissions tests, according to a lawsuit by truck owners filed on Wednesday, a claim the No. 2 U.S. automaker...
3 Native American Tribes in Dakotas Sue Opioid Industry Groups
Jan 10 2018 // Three Native American tribes in the Dakotas are suing opioid manufacturers and distributors, alleging they concealed and minimized the addiction risk of prescription drugs. The Rosebud Sioux Tribe, Flandreau Santee Sioux...
Southern California Edison Blamed in Lawsuit for 3 Los Angeles-Area Wildfires
Jan 10 2018 // Edison International’s Southern California Edison was blamed in a lawsuit for three wildfires that destroyed more than 1,000 buildings and killed a firefighter last month in the Los Angeles area. While no official...
Billionaire Rennert Files Malpractice Lawsuit Over $213M Judgment
Jan 10 2018 // Billionaire Ira Rennert has filed a $214 million malpractice lawsuit against his former law firm, after a jury found him liable for looting his magnesium company to build a huge mansion in New York’s Hamptons. Renco...
Judge Overseeing Local Opioid Lawsuits Hopes for ‘Meaningful’ Settlement
Jan 10 2018 // The judge overseeing U.S. cities’ and counties’ lawsuits against makers of opioid painkillers said he hopes a sweeping resolution can be worked out by the end of the year that will have a “meaningful...
Uber Settles New York Drivers’ Class Action Over Fees for $3 Million
Jan 10 2018 // Uber Technologies Inc. agreed to pay up to $3 million to settle a proposed class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of 2,421 drivers in New York who accused the ride-sharing company of docking excessive fees from their...
Fired Engineer Sues Google Alleging Anti-Conservative Political Bias
Jan 9 2018 // A former Google engineer fired after he asserted in a memo that biological causes were behind tech industry gender inequality sued his former employer on Monday, saying he was discriminated against as a white man with...
West Virginia’s Greenbrier Resort Sued by Maryland Event Company for $800K
Jan 9 2018 // A Maryland company has filed a lawsuit against companies tied to The Greenbrier resort in West Virginia for failure to pay for services and equipment claims. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports Select Event Group Inc....
GEO in Arizona to Pay $550K to Settle Sex Harassment and Retaliation Suit
Jan 8 2018 // The GEO Group Inc., operator of the Central Arizona Correctional Facility and Arizona State Prison-Florence West Facility in Florence, will pay $550,000 and furnish other relief to settle lawsuits for sexual harassment and...
Google Faulted for Asking Hires About Prior Pay in Revised Lawsuit
Jan 8 2018 // A revised gender-pay lawsuit seeking class-action status against Google faults the search giant for asking new hires about their prior salary, a practice now banned in California. The suit, filed last week, also adds a...
Judge Tosses ‘Underfilled Lattes’ Class Action Against Starbucks
Jan 8 2018 // Starbucks Corp. has won the dismissal of a U.S. lawsuit accusing the coffee chain of overcharging customers by underfilling lattes and mochas to reduce milk costs. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers on Friday found...
Suit Against Company in Deadly Tennessee School Bus Crash Settled for $323k
Jan 8 2018 // The company in a deadly November 2016 school bus crash in Tennessee has settled a lawsuit for $323,000 on behalf of a 9-year-old boy injured in the wreck. According to the Chattanooga Times Free Press, Durham School...
The Competitive Advantage: A Scary Trend
Jan 8 2018 // Maybe “trend” is inaccurate because the data is scant, or maybe “trend” is a presage. The “trend” does not yet exist, but it will. The “trend” is companies taking drastic...
2018 Insurance Industry Meetings & Events Directory
Jan 8 2018 // CIWA Industry Days Jan 8-10 Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines La Jolla, Calif. California Insurance Wholesalers Association (CIWA) Contact: Thomas Shovlin, thomas@ciwa.net The 19th Annual Windstorm Insurance Conference Jan...
ArcelorMittal Subsidiary to Pay $1.5M in Pennsylvania Coke Plant Lawsuit
Jan 8 2018 // A subsidiary of European steel giant ArcelorMittal has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle a lawsuit over allegations its western Pennsylvania coke plant violated emissions requirements over soot and other pollutants...
Suit Targets Oregon Hotel, Backpage.com Following Woman’s Killing
Jan 8 2018 // The estate of a woman has filed a $3.6 million lawsuit against Backpage.com and the owners of the Portland, Ore., hotel where she was killed by a man she’d met for sex. The suit says 25-year-old Ashley Benson had...
