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California Sues Glass Company Over Hazardous Waste in Wine Bottles
Mar 4 2015 // California’s Department of Toxic Substances Control says it is suing a glass company for violating recycling laws after it added hazardous waste dust to wine bottles made at its Modesto plant. The department said...
Family of Oregon Worker Killed in Blender Sues Meat Distributor
Mar 4 2015 // The family of a cleaning worker who was killed when he fell into a running industrial meat blender at an Oregon plant is suing the meat distributor for $5 million. The Oregonian reported that the lawsuit filed last week in...
Asiana Settles Personal Injury Suits Over San Francisco Crash
Mar 4 2015 // Asiana Airlines Inc. settled 72 personal injury claims in lawsuits filed over a July 2013 crash landing at San Francisco International Airport and is continuing to negotiate with other passengers. The airline announced the...
Exxon Hit with Lawsuit in Louisiana over Denied Tainted Fuel Claims
Mar 3 2015 // ExxonMobil has paid more than $4.6 million to nearly 2,900 motorists impacted by the company’s production of more than 5 million gallons of tainted fuel distributed in the Baton Rouge area in March...
Lawsuit in 2011 Nevada Gold Mine Death Settled
Mar 3 2015 // A lawyer for the Utah family of a contract worker at a Nevada gold mine that paid more than $100,000 in U.S. safety fines after he was killed there in 2011 says they’ve settled a wrongful death suit with Newmont USA,...
Ohio Sues BP for $33M Over Tank Leak Cleanup Costs
Mar 2 2015 // BP Plc double dipped by taking a total of more than $33 million from an Ohio compensation fund and insurers to clean up leaks from underground storage tanks, according to the state’s attorney general. Attorney...
Nurse Who Caught Ebola Sues Dallas Hospital Where She Worked
Mar 2 2015 // Nina Pham, a nurse who contracted Ebola while treating a man who died of the disease, sued the Dallas hospital where she worked, her attorney’s office said without elaborating. Pham and another Texas Health...
Years of Sewer Backups in South Dakota Town Prompt Lawsuits
Mar 2 2015 // Thirteen Spearfish, S.D., residents have sued the city over years of sewer backups. Plaintiffs say in their lawsuit that they have suffered through a series of sewer backups stretching back to 2008, leading to stinky,...
Red-Light Camera Lawsuits Reinstated in Louisiana Parish
Mar 2 2015 // The battle over Jefferson Parish’s defunct red-light camera program is headed back to district court, after appellate judges reversed decisions throwing out ticketed drivers’ lawsuits against the parish and...
Utah Firm to Issue Refunds to Settle Suit Over Weight-Loss Pills
Mar 2 2015 // A Salt Lake City, Utah-based company has agreed to pay refunds to consumers who purchased its weight-loss tablets to settle a class-action lawsuit that claimed its advertising slogan, “Eat All You Want & Still...
Lawsuit Filed in California Against Scope Maker in Superbug Infection
Feb 27 2015 // A patient has sued the maker of a medical scope linked to the outbreak of a superbug at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Attorney Pete Kaufman filed suit this week on behalf of 18-year-old Aaron Young, who remains...
Suit Filed in California Against Purina Claims Food Sickens, Kills Dogs
Feb 26 2015 // A dog owner has filed a lawsuit in California against a pet food company alleging that thousands of dogs have been sickened or died from eating the company’s dry dog food. Pet owner Frank Lucido filed the suit in...
Tobacco Firms to Settle 400 Florida Smokers’ Lawsuits for $100M
Feb 26 2015 // The three biggest U.S. tobacco companies agreed to pay $100 million to settle 400 Florida lawsuits, potentially resolving a group of cases filed after a 2006 ruling by the state’s highest court that made it easier...
Report: North Carolina Hospitals Reduce Lawsuits Against Patients
Feb 25 2015 // Two North Carolina newspapers report that hospitals in the state have sharply reduced the practice of suing patients who don’t pay their bills. The analysis by the The Charlotte Observer and The News & Observer...
Twice-Wounded Sandy Victims Seek Payout as FEMA Presses Insurers
Feb 25 2015 // Some homeowners hit by Hurricane Sandy say they’ve been victimized twice: first by the storm and later by insurers. John Clancy says his insurer, an Allstate Corp. unit, paid just $46,000 of the more than $200,000 in...
More than $1M Awarded in Oklahoma Nursing Home Lawsuit
Feb 24 2015 // The former owner of an Oklahoma City nursing home must pay a woman’s family more than $1 million in damages after staff were caught abusing the woman on camera. A jury recently awarded the three daughters of...
Donald Trump Withdraws Lawsuit Against Florida City Over Noise Ordinance Violations
Feb 24 2015 // Donald Trump has withdrawn a lawsuit he just filed against city officials in a Miami suburb over noise-ordinance violations against his resort. Trump spokesman Ed Russo was quoted by the Miami Herald last week as saying...
Court Clears Way For Couple to Sue Jack Nicklaus In Utah Case
Feb 24 2015 // A federal appeals court has ruled a Colorado couple can sue Jack Nicklaus over an alleged misrepresentation of the golf legend’s membership role in a $3.5 billion southern Utah luxury golf resort that went bankrupt...
Montana Man Sues University Alleging Harassment, Discrimination
Feb 24 2015 // A former janitor at Montana State University is suing the college over how he was treated by co-workers. Akram Zahran filed the lawsuit this past week in Gallatin County District Court against MSU, two co-workers and a...
Suit Filed Against U of New Mexico by Woman Who Reported Gang Rape
Feb 23 2015 // A woman’s lawsuit accuses the University of New Mexico of giving short shrift to her report of being raped by two football players and another man. The lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court seeks unspecified...
