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Wells Fargo to Pay $300M to Settle Suit Over Auto Insurance Disclosures
Feb 8 2023 // Wells Fargo & Co. agreed to pay $300 million to settle a shareholder lawsuit claiming the bank hid that it had pushed unnecessary insurance on auto loan customers, according to documents filed in U.S. court on...
Brown & Brown Won’t Get Change of Venue in Coverage Gap Lawsuit by Property Firm
Feb 8 2023 // Daytona Beach-based Brown & Brown Insurance, often called one of the largest and fastest-growing insurance brokerages in the United States, has lost a round in its legal battle with one of its largest clients, a...
Family of Minneapolis Man Killed in No-Knock Search Warrant Sues City
Feb 7 2023 // MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The parents of Amir Locke, who was shot to death by a Minneapolis police officer when a SWAT team executed a no-knock search warrant one year ago, sued the city and the officer Friday, alleging he was...
24 Models Sue 3 Insurers to Collect on $2M Deals With Strip Clubs Over Use of Photos
Feb 7 2023 // A group of 24 models is suing three insurers to collect more than $2 million in settlements stemming from the unauthorized use of their images by several strip clubs in the Northeast. The models, including Tara Leigh...
Nearly 60 L’Oreal Hair Relaxer Lawsuits Consolidated in Illinois Federal Court
Feb 7 2023 // Nearly 60 lawsuits claiming hair relaxer products sold by L’Oreal USA Inc and other companies cause cancer and other health problems will be consolidated in Chicago federal court, according to a Monday order from the...
Getty Images Lawsuit Says Stability AI Misused Photos to Train AI
Feb 7 2023 // Stock photo provider Getty Images has sued artificial intelligence company Stability AI Inc, accusing it in a lawsuit made public on Monday of misusing more than 12 million Getty photos to train its Stable Diffusion AI...
Root Sues Former CMO Over At Least $9.4M in Unauthorized Payments
Feb 6 2023 // Root Inc., the parent company of Root Insurance, has followed up its investigation into almost $10 million of unauthorized payments with a lawsuit against its former chief marketing officer. According to the suit, filed in...
U.S. Military Members Suing 3M Seek Dismissal of Subsidiary’s Bankruptcy
Feb 6 2023 // Current and former U.S. military members suing 3M over allegedly defective military earplugs have asked a U.S. judge to dismiss 3M subsidiary Aearo Technologies‘ bankruptcy, accusing the company of using bankruptcy...
Chicago Suburb Settles $12M Lawsuit Over Boy’s Shooting
Feb 6 2023 // CHICAGO (AP) – The family of a suburban Chicago boy who was 12 when an officer shot him in the knee during a 2019 police raid will receive $12 million under a settlement of the family’s lawsuit. The settlement,...
2022 Was a Banner Year for Billion-Dollar Class Action Settlements
Feb 6 2023 // Drugmakers and distributors that settled misconduct allegations related to the national opioid epidemic led to a banner year for class-action plaintiffs in 2022, with 15 settlement agreements that totaled $1 billion or...
Closed Ill. Plant’s Ex-Operator Settles Suits for $408M
Feb 6 2023 // The former operator of a suburban Chicago medical equipment cleaning plant has agreed to pay $408 million to settle hundreds of lawsuits alleging that the now-shuttered facility exposed residents to a toxic industrial gas...
Police Settle La. Suit Over 2020 Beating of Black Man
Feb 3 2023 // SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) – A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit filed by a Black man who said police officers in a Louisiana city threw him to the ground, slammed his face into the sidewalk and detained him in a mental...
Judge Allows New Jersey Town’s Suit to Recover $21M Spent on Beach Restoration
Feb 3 2023 // A New Jersey beach town that defied state environmental authorities and fixed its dunes that were seriously eroded by a storm can proceed with a lawsuit seeking to recover $21 million it spent bulking up its shoreline, but...
Judge Stays New Jersey Law Allowing AG Lawsuits Against Gun Industry
Feb 2 2023 // A federal judge has halted a New Jersey law allowing the state attorney general to bring civil lawsuits against the gun industry in that state. U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraishi granted a preliminary injunction against...
Univ. of Minnesota Football Players’ Discrimination Lawsuit Dismissed
Feb 2 2023 // MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by nine former University of Minnesota football players who were accused of sexual assault in 2016 in a case that roiled the school’s football...
California Lawsuit Seeks Damages for Unarmed Mentally Ill Man Shot in Back
Feb 2 2023 // A California widow whose husband was suffering from a mental health crisis when she called a nonemergency number for help last year sued Culver City police Tuesday, alleging they shot her unarmed husband in the back as he...
Thousands of Nigerians Join Landmark Lawsuit Against Shell in UK
Feb 2 2023 // More than 13,500 Nigerians joined their communities in a lawsuit against Shell Plc before a landmark UK trial that could have far-reaching implications for parent-company responsibility over the actions of foreign...
$225K Settlement Ends Police Brutality Suit in Ohio’s Largest City
Feb 1 2023 // COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) _ Officials in Ohio’s largest city have reached a $225,000 settlement with a man who said police officers used improper force during a 2017 arrest. The Columbus City Council voted unanimously...
$32M Settlement in California Child Welfare Lawsuit
Feb 1 2023 // Central California’s Tulare County will pay $32 million to settle a lawsuit alleging its child welfare agency failed to respond to reports of abuse involving an infant boy who was hospitalized for malnutrition and...
U.S. Court Rejects J&J Bankruptcy Strategy for Thousands of Talc Lawsuits
Jan 31 2023 // A U.S. appeals court on Monday shot down Johnson & Johnson’s attempt to offload tens of thousands of lawsuits over its talc products into bankruptcy court. The ruling marked the first major repudiation of an...
