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U.S. Senator from Nevada Suing Exercise Band Maker over Eye Injury
Oct 19 2015 // U.S. Sen. Harry Reid is suing a company that makes and markets a flexible exercise band that he says slipped from his hand, causing him to fall and suffer eye, face and rib injuries on New Year’s Day. A lawsuit filed...
TV Host Erin Andrews Files $75M Suit in Nashville in Peeping Case
Oct 18 2015 // Sportscaster and TV host Erin Andrews is seeking a $75 million judgment against the Marriott hotel chain and a man who admitted making secret nude tapes of her in 2008. The lawsuit filed in Nashville in 2010 was amended...
Unlike Uber, On-Demand Office Service Cleans Up with Employees
Oct 16 2015 // It’s scorching on the streets of Midtown Manhattan as Afonso Oliveira strides around the lunch-break crowds, unbent beneath his 45-pound, $350 industrial backpack. He is carrying everything that might be needed to...
Wal-Mart Sues Insurers for Alleged Breach of Contract in Morgan Settlement Case
Oct 16 2015 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. recently filed a lawsuit against a number of its commercial excess liability insurers. The lawsuit alleges that the insurers are delaying to pay claims related to the giant retailer’s personal...
Family of Man on Sunken Freighter Files $100M Lawsuit in Florida
Oct 16 2015 // The family of a sailor aboard the cargo ship that sunk in roiling seas whipped up by Hurricane Joaquin filed a $100 million lawsuit Wednesday against the vessel’s owner and captain. Willie Gary, a Jacksonville,...
Farmers Insurance Facing Possible Class Action by ‘Hundreds’ of Female Attorneys
Oct 15 2015 // An attorney representing a woman suing Farmers Insurance for discriminatory practices was set to file a motion on Thursday seeking class action status in a suit she says could potentially encompass 300 female...
Attorneys: N.Y. Woman’s Lawsuit Against Nephew Was an Insurance Case
Oct 15 2015 // A New York woman who sued her 12-year-old nephew for $127,000 over injuries she received when he exuberantly greeted her at his birthday party four years ago was forced to go to court over her medical bills, her lawyers...
Ohio Megachurch, Insurer Disputing Payment of Lawsuit Settlement
Oct 15 2015 // Lawyers for a central Ohio megachurch and its former insurance company are squaring off in the Ohio Supreme Court over payment of $3.1 million settlement in a lawsuit over the alleged beating of a toddler at the...
Suit Against Wyoming Wilderness School in Hiker’s Death Dismissed
Oct 15 2015 // A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against a Wyoming-based wilderness training academy over the death of a hiker on a 2011 trip to India. U.S. District Judge Alan B. Johnson last week dismissed the suit filed by...
Supreme Court Weighs When an Offer Ends Class Action
Oct 15 2015 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared closely divided as it weighed a class action case in which advertising agency Campbell-Ewald Co. is attempting to fend off a lawsuit over claims that it violated a federal...
Tennessee Woman Sues City Over Gun Ban at County Fair
Oct 15 2015 // A Loudon County, Tennessee, woman is suing the city of Knoxville over its decision to ban guns at Chilhowee Park during last month’s Tennessee Valley Fair. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports Pandora Vreeland claims...
ProPublica, NPR: Inside Corporate America’s Campaign to Ditch Workers’ Comp
Oct 14 2015 // This article was published by ProPublica and NPR and is reprinted with permission. Standing before a giant map in his Dallas office, Bill Minick doesn’t seem like anyone’s idea of a bomb thrower. But backed by...
Apple Loses Univ. of Wisconsin Patent Lawsuit
Oct 14 2015 // Apple Inc. could be facing up to $862 million in damages after a U.S. jury on Oct. 13 found the iPhone maker used technology owned by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s licensing arm without permission in chips...
BP to Pay Louisiana $58M for Legal Fees, Oil Spill Litigation Cost
Oct 14 2015 // BP will reimburse $58.25 million to the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office for its expenses, fees and litigation costs tied to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The Advocate reports money...
Girl’s Family Sues Oregon School over Alleged Seclusion Room Incident
Oct 14 2015 // A lawsuit filed last week accuses Oregon’s Springfield School District of holding a then-7-year-old girl in a 6-foot-by-8-foot seclusion room for having a “meltdown” in class. The $300,000 lawsuit, filed...
University of Oregon Sorority Kitchen Worker Files Suit over Termination
Oct 13 2015 // A former kitchen worker at a University of Oregon sorority house is suing the Alpha Xi chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta over her alleged wrongful termination. The Register-Guard reported Noel Roberts filed the suit Thursday...
EEOC Sues Penn.’s Open Records Office for Alleged Age Discrimination
Oct 13 2015 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said on Oct. 7 that it has filed a lawsuit against Pennsylvania’s Office of Public Records for allegedly violating federal law when it refused to hire an...
Oregon Court Won’t Exclude Oracle Executives from Suit
Oct 12 2015 // The Oregon Supreme Court has denied a request by Oracle Corp. to have five of its executives excluded from a lawsuit filed by the state over the failure of the Cover Oregon health insurance exchange. The court issued the...
Washington Sues Contactor Building $3.1B Seattle Tunnel
Oct 12 2015 // Washington is suing the contractor building the $3.1 billion tunnel replacement project for Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct. In a statement late Friday afternoon, the Department of Transportation says it filed the...
West Virginia Widow Settles Wrongful Death Suit with Energy Companies for $18M
Oct 12 2015 // Energy companies will pay $18 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the widow of a man who died in a flash fire at a natural gas station in Tyler County, West Virginia. The settlement involves the April 2013...
