Latest Lawsuits Headlines
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Wisconsin Baby’s Death Spurs Suit Against Caregiver Website
Aug 4 2014 // A Wisconsin couple has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Illinois baby sitter charged in the death of their baby and the caregiver screening website they used to hire her. A lawsuit filed by Nathan and Reggan...
Ohio Workers’ Comp Agency Settles Overcharges Lawsuit
Aug 4 2014 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation has reached an agreement in principle to settle the San Allen case, a class action lawsuit filed in 2007 against the BWC over the pricing of workers’ comp policies that...
Johns Hopkins to Pay $190M to Settle Hidden Camera Lawsuit
Aug 4 2014 // Johns Hopkins Health System will pay $190 million to more than 8,000 women whose bodies may have been videotaped or photographed by a gynecologist using a pen-like camera during pelvic exams. Dr. Nikita Levy was fired in...
Penn. Family Awarded $18M in Suit Against Nationwide
Aug 4 2014 // An insurance company that was tongue-lashed in a decision by a Pennsylvania judge is contesting his ruling that it pay $18 million in punitive damages after a long court battle over faulty repairs to a family’s...
Insurer Says OK to Settlement in Wrongful Death Suit Against Hawaii Driver
Aug 4 2014 // A $1.1 million settlement has been reached in a wrongful death lawsuit involving the death of a 26-year-old pedestrian. The settlement came in a civil lawsuit against Robert Wayne Yount, 83, and the civil case will be...
Fired Oregon Police Chief Sues City Over Military Service
Aug 4 2014 // The recently fired police chief of a central Oregon town says he was undone by an ambitious deputy who had eyes for his job and a city government that resented the leave he took for military service. Former Prineville...
BP Employee Emails Urge Houston, Harris County to Drop Oil Spill Lawsuit
Aug 1 2014 // Houston and Harris County officials have been flooded with thousands of emails from BP and its employees over the past few weeks encouraging them to drop a lawsuit over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Some have...
New Suit Filed in Louisiana Claims Chinese Drywall Destroyed Homes
Aug 1 2014 // Lawyers for people who say their homes were wrecked by defective drywall made in China have filed a new lawsuit against the manufacturers and a new defendant — the Chinese Cabinet agency that oversees the country’s...
House Votes to Proceed with Lawsuit Against Obama
Jul 31 2014 // The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives voted to sue President Barack Obama’s administration over implementation of his 2010 health-care law. With a near-party-line vote of 225-201, lawmakers endorsed...
Doctors, Hospital Deny Medical Malpractice in Alabama Man’s Circumcision
Jul 30 2014 // Two doctors deny claims by an Alabama man who says his penis was amputated during what was supposed to be a routine circumcision, one of their lawyers said. Defense lawyer Will Axon said allegations in a lawsuit filed this...
AIG Ex-CEO Greenberg Faces January Trial in Loss Reserving Lawsuit
Jul 30 2014 // Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, the former chairman of American International Group Inc., will go on trial in January after more than nine years of legal jousting over former New York Attorney General Eliot...
NCAA Offers $70 Million to Settle Sports Concussion Suits
Jul 29 2014 // The National Collegiate Athletic Association would provide $70 million for concussion testing and diagnosis of current and former NCAA athletes as a part of an agreement to settle claims in several head-injury-related...
Important Facts about Texas Fertilizer Blast May Be Sealed in Lawsuits
Jul 28 2014 // Valuable health and safety information about the 2013 fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, could be hidden from the public forever because a judge has approved confidentiality agreements for more than a dozen...
Parents Sue Alaska Heli-Ski Company After Son’s Avalanche Death
Jul 28 2014 // The parents of a 26-year-old snowboarder who died after an Alaska avalanche have filed a federal lawsuit against a heli-skiing company, alleging it failed to assess the danger in the area. Nickolay Dobov of Truckee,...
Austin Police Officers Sue for Discrimination After Reassignments
Jul 25 2014 // Some Austin, Texas, police officers are suing the city for what they say was race and age discrimination in job assignments. The Austin American-Statesman reports 18 officers filed the lawsuit Wednesday. The officers say...
Oregon Man’s Sues Boy Scouts for $5.3 Million Over Molestation
Jul 25 2014 // A Portland, Ore. man who says he was molested by his Scout leader in the 1970s seeks $5.3 million in a lawsuit filed against the Boy Scouts of America. The lawsuit filed Wednesday says the national office allowed the...
Jury Awards Families $2.4M in Lawsuit Over Utah Couple’s Kayaking Death
Jul 25 2014 // A jury has faulted state and local agencies in the 2010 deaths of a Utah married couple kayaking in the Jordan River. Family members of Kelly Frye-Glasser and Joseph Glasser on Tuesday won their case arguing that officials...
Washington Bank Sued by Women Claiming Sex Discrimination
Jul 24 2014 // Two former employees of the Miles City branch of Stockman Bank in Montana have filed a lawsuit alleging sexual discrimination by their supervisors. Cindy Conley of Miles City and Tracee Burchell of Castle Rock, Colorado,...
Ohio Workers’ Comp Agency Settles Overcharges Lawsuit
Jul 23 2014 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation has reached an agreement in principle to settle the San Allen case, a class action lawsuit filed in 2007 against the BWC over the pricing of workers’ comp policies that...
Trucking Company Seeks Limit on Suits over Indiana Highway Repair Costs
Jul 23 2014 // A trucking company wants the state appeals court to limit the Indiana Department of Transportation’s authority to sue over damage done to state highways. The challenge is in court as the highway agency is trying to...
