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Class Action Follows California Commissioner’s Decision in Applied Dispute
Jan 27 2016 // A decision from the California Department of Insurance has workers’ compensation carrier Applied Underwriters and one of its companies on the defensive, and now a class action suit has been filed seeking to recover...
Lyft’s $12 Million Settlement with Ridesharing Drivers Avoids Employee Classification
Jan 27 2016 // Ride-hailing service Lyft has agreed to settle a proposed class action lawsuit in California by giving drivers additional workplace protections but without classifying them as employees, removing a major threat to its...
Securities Class Action Activity Rose 11% in 2015: Cornerstone
Jan 26 2016 // Federal securities class action litigation rose to 189 filings in 2015, an 11 percent increase over 2014 levels, according to new research. “Securities Class Action Filings—2015 Year in Review,” a report...
Minnesota Company Settles Transgender Discrimination Suit for $115K
Jan 26 2016 // Deluxe Financial Services Corp. (Deluxe), a Shoreview, Minn.-based check-printing and financial services corporation, has agreed to pay $115,000 as part of the settlement of a sex discrimination and harassment lawsuit...
Indiana Company to Pay $100K to Resolve Age Discrimination Suit
Jan 25 2016 // Seymour Midwest, a Warsaw, Ind., hand tool manufacturing company, will pay $100,000 and furnish other relief to resolve an age discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the...
Earthquakes and Resulting Lawsuits Persist in Oklahoma
Jan 25 2016 // A group of Edmond residents filed a lawsuit on Jan. 11 against 12 energy companies, claiming that their saltwater disposal wells were partly to blame for earthquakes in central Oklahoma. The lawsuit seeks a permanent...
West Virginia Sues Prescription Drug Wholesaler for ‘Flooding’ State
Jan 25 2016 // West Virginia’s attorney general has accused one of the nation’s largest pharmaceutical drug wholesalers of flooding the state with tens of millions of prescription pills in violation of state law. Attorney...
Michigan Firm to Pay $31K to Settle Discrimination Suit
Jan 24 2016 // Michigan-based Downriver Community Services will pay $31,000 and provide equitable relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency...
Bond Insurers’ Lawsuits Against Puerto Rico to Be Combined
Jan 22 2016 // A second lawsuit over Puerto Rico’s debt default will be joined with a similar suit in order to save time and money and avoid inconsistent rulings, a U.S. federal judge said on Thursday. Financial Guaranty Insurance...
$142.5K Settlement Reached in Lawsuit over North Dakota Traffic Stop
Jan 22 2016 // The North Dakota Insurance Reserve Fund will pay $142,500 to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Richland County Sheriff’s Office. The three men who filed the lawsuit alleged they were injured when two...
Supreme Court Rules Monetary Offer Doesn’t End Class Action
Jan 20 2016 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled against advertising firm Campbell-Ewald in a class action case, saying the lawsuit can proceed over claims the company violated a federal consumer law by sending unsolicited text...
Insurance to Offset Merck’s $830M Settlement with Investors Over Vioxx
Jan 19 2016 // More than 11 years after pulling its Vioxx painkiller from the market, Merck & Co. agreed to pay another $830 million to settle litigation, raising its total payouts in lawsuits and government investigations to more...
Kentucky Drone Suit Challenges Airspace Rules, Privacy Expectations
Jan 19 2016 // A lawsuit filed against a man who shot down a drone over his Hillview, Ky., home last summer seeks to resolve what expectations homeowners have to privacy as their property is seen from the air. The Courier-Journal reports...
Groups File Lawsuit Over North Carolina ‘Anti-Whistleblower’ Law
Jan 15 2016 // Animal-rights, food-safety and other groups sued this week to stop a new North Carolina law that helps employers punish people who get hired to steal company secrets or dig up dirt. The federal lawsuit was filed by People...
Virginia City, Insurers Settle Suit Filed by Wrongfully Convicted Man
Jan 14 2016 // The city of Newport News, Virginia, and its insurers have paid $2 million to settle a lawsuit brought by a man who spent nearly 23 years in jail before a judge tossed his conviction. The Daily Press reports that the...
Oklahoma Residents Sue 12 Energy Companies Following Earthquakes
Jan 14 2016 // A group of Edmond residents has filed a lawsuit against 12 energy companies, claiming that their saltwater disposal wells were partly to blame for earthquakes in central Oklahoma in recent weeks. The lawsuit seeks a...
Widow’s Damages Lawsuit Blames Twitter for Spread of ISIS
Jan 14 2016 // Twitter Inc. was accused in a lawsuit by the widow of a man killed at a police training center in Jordan of knowingly allowing the Islamic State to spread its terrorist message through its service. Twitter, like other...
Families of 3 Men Killed in North Carolina Scaffolding Collapse File Lawsuit
Jan 14 2016 // The families of three workers who died when scaffolding collapsed at a Raleigh, N.C., high-rise building have sued four firms connected with the project. Multiple media outlets report the law firm of former presidential...
Insurers to Pay Port in Washington Soil Contamination Suit
Jan 12 2016 // A Cowlitz County, Wash. judge has ordered insurers to pay the Port of Longview $2.45 million in attorney fees in an ongoing lawsuit over soil contamination. The Daily News reported that the order is the latest development...
Fired Arkansas Cop Sues City for $2.5M
Jan 12 2016 // A former Forrest City Police Department officer who was fired in 2014 over a photo posted on social media is suing the Arkansas city for more than $2.5 million. The Herald-Times reports the photo shows then-officer...
