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GEICO Files RICO Lawsuit in Florida Over Alleged Fraudulent Claims
Jul 1 2016 // GEICO has sued five Florida companies and six known individuals engaged in what it said was a complex scheme to submit hundreds of suspected fraudulent glass repair bills for payment. In the case, Government Employees...
Class-Action Suit Filed Against South Carolina Town Over Speeding Ordinance
Jul 1 2016 // A class-action lawsuit has been filed against the Clarendon County, South Carolina town of Turbeville for its practice of charging speeders under an ordinance that allows the town to keep the fines rather than the...
San Francisco Sued Over New Short-Term Rentals Rules
Jun 29 2016 // Airbnb has sued the city of San Francisco over a new law requiring short-term rental companies to remove unregistered hosts from their websites. The San Francisco Chronicle reports the company’s suit filed in the...
U.S. Supreme Court to Weigh Miami Predatory Lending Lawsuit
Jun 28 2016 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to decide whether Miami can pursue lawsuits accusing major banks of predatory mortgage lending to black and Hispanic homebuyers resulting in loan defaults that drove down city tax...
New Hampshire Woman Withdraws Civil Suit Against Bill Cosby
Jun 28 2016 // A 72-year-old New Hampshire woman who says Bill Cosby raped her in 1965 has withdrawn her civil defamation lawsuit against the comedian after a federal judge had allowed the case to move forward. Kristina Ruehli’s...
5 Drug Wholesalers to Settle West Virginia Pill Shipment Lawsuit for $4.2M
Jun 28 2016 // Five drug wholesalers have agreed to a $4.2 million settlement in a lawsuit alleging that they shipped an excessive number of prescription opioids to West Virginia, the attorney general said June 23. According to a news...
Texas Energy Exec Charged with Defrauding Investors
Jun 27 2016 // A Texas energy company CEO dubbed the “frack master” is charged with defrauding investors of about $80 million, including misappropriating at least $30 million for personal expenses, including private jets and...
Illinois Insurance Co-Op Sues Feds over ACA Payments
Jun 27 2016 // A struggling Illinois health insurance co-op is suing the federal government, claiming it is being shortchanged $72.8 million in promised payments under the Affordable Care Act. Chicago-based Land of Lincoln Health filed...
Mother of Oregon Child Strangled by Window Blinds Sues Apartment for $4M
Jun 27 2016 // The mother of a 3-year-old girl who died after being strangled by a window blinds cord in a Clackamas County, Ore. apartment has filed a $4 million lawsuit. The Oregonian/OregonLive reported Sahrye Imani Hardy had been...
Judge Dismisses Group of Lawsuits against Colorado Theater
Jun 27 2016 // A federal judge has dismissed a consolidated group of lawsuits brought against the owner of the Colorado movie theater where a gunman killed 12 people and wounded 70 others. Judge R. Brooke Jackson dismissed the lawsuits...
How Led Zeppelin ‘Stairway’ Win Could Affect Music Copyright Liability
Jun 27 2016 // Led Zeppelin’s victory over allegations the band stole the opening chords of “Stairway to Heaven” may reverse the swell in copyright infringement lawsuits over pop songs that followed last year’s...
Texas State Senator Sues Cowboys Player over Allegedly Trashed House
Jun 24 2016 // Dez Bryant faces a lawsuit from his former landlord over allegations of more than $60,000 in damages to a house that the Dallas Cowboys receiver leased. The civil suit was filed last week by Texas state Sen. Royce West, an...
Oregon Teen Disfigured During School Trip to Costa Rica Sues For $20M
Jun 24 2016 // An Oregon teenager who was disfigured during a school trip in Costa Rica has filed a $20.8 million lawsuit against his former high school. The Oregonian/OregonLive reported that Joseph Christopher Johnson filed the suit...
Michigan AG Sues 2 Engineering Companies over Flint Water Problems
Jun 23 2016 // Michigan’s attorney general filed a civil lawsuit on June 22 against two water engineering companies, saying they caused and exacerbated Flint’s lead-tainted water crisis and demanding hundreds of millions of...
Judge Allows Bulk of Starbucks Suit in California over Lattes to Proceed
Jun 23 2016 // A federal judge is allowing the bulk of a lawsuit accusing Starbucks of systematically under-filling lattes to move forward. Two California residents are suing the Seattle-based coffee chain, claiming that Starbucks lattes...
Sisters’ Lawsuit Against Pennsylvania Diocese Claims Sex Abuse by Priest
Jun 23 2016 // Two sisters have sued a Catholic priest, his central Pennsylvania diocese and two ex-bishops who supervised him, saying the cleric molested them repeatedly as girls — including one at her first Communion party. The...
Foo Fighters Suing Lloyd’s in California over Concert Canceled after Paris Attacks
Jun 22 2016 // The Foo Fighters are suing insurers for failing to reimburse them for European shows they cancelled following the Paris terrorist attacks in November. The suit, filed Monday in federal court in Los Angeles against...
Pittsburgh Newscaster Sues Station Over Firing for Facebook Comments
Jun 22 2016 // A Pittsburgh newscaster fired after her comments in a Facebook post about a shooting were deemed racially insensitive sued her former employer on Monday, saying the television station let her go because she is white. Wendy...
Lawsuit Alleges Baylor Fostered ‘Hunting Ground’ for Sexual Assault
Jun 21 2016 // A federal lawsuit filed against Waco, Texas-based Baylor University accuses the nation’s largest Baptist school of creating a “hunting ground for sexual predators.” The lawsuit, brought by a former Baylor...
Texas Insurers Hope Court Decisions Will Curtail Hail-Related Lawsuits
Jun 21 2016 // Following a severe hailstorm in south Texas in 2012, insurers were beset with homeowner property lawsuits — sometimes after claims were paid and repairs were completed — even though data from the Texas Department of...
