Latest Lawsuits Headlines
All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Facebook Firing Suit Settled
Feb 9 2011 // A settlement has been reached in the case of a Connecticut worker who was fired for criticizing her boss on Facebook, according to the The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The case centered on a complaint issued last...
Firms Can Avoid Shareholder Lawsuits with Kid Behavior
Feb 8 2011 // When companies are looking at bad earnings news, a new study from the University of Iowa suggests it’s best for executives to remember what they learned as kids. “If a child does something wrong and tells his...
Wisconsin Governor Signs Lawsuit Reform Measure
Feb 7 2011 // Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill that will dramatically rewrite Wisconsin’s civil litigation rules. The bill makes it harder to sue businesses by setting new standards for expert testimony and burdens of...
Mississippi Suit Against Healthcare Law Dismissed… for Now
Feb 6 2011 // A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit in Mississippi that challenges part of the Obama administration’s health care law, but he is giving the plaintiffs 30 days to make changes to their complaint. U.S. District...
Florida Regulator Wants Dallas National Vendetta Lawsuit Dismissed
Feb 3 2011 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty is back in federal court looking to end a legal battle with the Texas-based Dallas National Insurance Co. and its owner Charles David Wood, who claims the commissioner denied...
New York Lawsuit Accuses Toshiba of Discrimination
Feb 2 2011 // A human resources manager at a Toshiba America Inc. subsidiary sued the company for $100 million, accusing the electronics giant of discriminating against women. Elaine Cyphers of Mecklenburg County, N.C., brought the...
Minnesota Man Imprisoned After Crash Sues Toyota
Feb 2 2011 // Attorneys for Toyota Motor Corp. asked a federal judge this week to dismiss most of the claims filed by a Minnesota man who was incarcerated after a fatal crash involving a 1996 Camry, saying the automaker had no direct...
Lawyer for Wisconsin Abuse Accuser Says Vatican Refuses Lawsuit
Feb 2 2011 // The attorney for a man who says he was sexually abused decades ago by a now-deceased priest at a Wisconsin school for the deaf says the Vatican has refused to be served with a lawsuit over the matter. St. Paul attorney...
New York Court Dismisses Bond Insurer MBIA’s Suit Against Merrill
Feb 2 2011 // A New York state appeals court Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit in which bond insurer MBIA Inc. accused Merrill Lynch & Co. of fraudulently misleading it into providing insurance on $5.7 billion of risky debt. The ruling is...
Lloyd’s Market: ‘No Direct Threat’ to Suez Canal Shipping
Jan 31 2011 // No direct threat to ships passing through the strategic Suez Canal waterway exists at the moment, despite unrest in Egypt, a senior official with London’s marine insurance market said on Monday. “We are not...
Suez Shipping Operating Normally Despite Egypt Unrest: Marine Insurers
Jan 31 2011 // No direct threat to ships passing through the strategic Suez Canal waterway exists at the moment, despite unrest in Egypt, a senior official with London’s marine insurance market said on Monday. “We are not...
Texas Jury Orders J&J to Pay $482M in Patent Lawsuit
Jan 31 2011 // A federal jury in Texas on Jan. 28 ordered Johnson & Johnson and a subsidiary to pay $482 million in damages to an inventor who claimed the health care giant infringed on his patent for a cardiac stent. Jurors hearing...
Pulsar Re Files Suit against Lehman to Recover $450 million
Jan 28 2011 // Lehman Brothers Holdings has been sued by a reinsurer that wants control of $450 million it said it pledged to secure various obligations, and which should not be given to Lehman creditors. Pulsar Re, a Bermuda-based...
Courts Allowing Private Facebook Posts As Evidence in Lawsuits
Jan 27 2011 // It’s the latest litigation tactic in the online age: U.S. lawyers are trying to mine the private zones of Facebook and other social-media sites for photos, comments, status updates and other tidbits that might...
Alabama Court Rules University Hospital Shares State Immunity
Jan 26 2011 // The Alabama Supreme Court has thrown out a $3.2 million judgment against a Montgomery hospital, ruling for the first time that a hospital affiliated with a state university shares the state’s immunity from...
Wisconsin Legislature Passes Lawsuit Reform Bill
Jan 25 2011 // The Wisconsin Legislature has passed a bill that would make it more difficult to sue companies and collect damages. The Assembly passed the bill on a partisan 57-36 on Jan. 20, two days after it cleared the Senate also...
Ohio Uninsured Motorist Litigation Tied to Money for Charities
Jan 24 2011 // An Ohio insurance company in late 2010 successfully challenged a class action lawsuit involving uninsured motorist/underinsured motorist (UM/UIM) coverage in a case that played prominently in a campaign to change the way...
Sex, Age Discrimination Suit Filed Against Bank of New York Mellon
Jan 24 2011 // A veteran portfolio officer at Bank of New York Mellon Corp accused the company of sex and age discrimination Friday, charging she was paid less than younger, male employees. Rochelle Cohen’s suit, filed in federal...
Investor Suit Against Bear Stearns, Auditor to Proceed
Jan 24 2011 // Plaintiffs in one of the biggest U.S. investor lawsuits stemming from the financial crisis got a boost from a judge, who said a case against fallen investment bank Bear Stearns and its outside auditor, Deloitte &...
Beacon Mutual Suit Granted Class-Action Status
Jan 24 2011 // A judge has granted class-action status to plaintiffs suing the Beacon Mutual Insurance Co. for inequitably distributing $101 million in dividends among policy holders. Judge Michael Silverstein said in his ruling that...
