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Lawsuit: Officials ‘Mocked’ Nevada Prison-Firefighter Burns
Mar 28 2023 // A group of prison firefighters said their feet burned and their socks melded to their feet during a gruesome fire clean-up assignment that left several unable to walk, stand or shower without assistance for days, according...
Pennsylvania School District Sues Norfolk Southern Over Ohio Train Derailment
Mar 27 2023 // A Pennsylvania school district serving students in two counties is suing the Norfolk Southern Railway over the railway’s February 3 toxic train derailment in nearby East Palestine, Ohio. The complaint filed by...
Illinois Supreme Court: Union Workers Can’t Sue Under Biometric Law
Mar 24 2023 // Illinois’ top court on Thursday said U.S. labor law bars unionized workers from suing their employers for violations of the state’s biometric privacy law, which can expose companies to massive penalties. The...
Indiana Lawmaker Sued for Medical Malpractice
Mar 23 2023 // INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – A Republican legislator who doubles as an emergency room doctor is being sued for medical malpractice in a patient’s death. The lawsuit alleges that his treatment caused 20-year old...
25,000 Lawsuits by Today? Florida Plaintiff Firms Rushing to File Before Tort-Reform Bill Signed into Law
Mar 23 2023 // The Florida Senate approved a take-no-prisoners tort-reform bill Thursday and Gov. Ron DeSantis signed it into law Friday. The bill, which extends limits on one-way attorney fees, assignments of benefits, and other...
Markets/Coverages: Mosaic Adds Litigation Liability Cover to Professional Lines Offering
Mar 23 2023 // Mosaic Insurance has launched litigation liability coverage, offering critical financial protection to policyholders against the risk of adverse legal costs when pursuing litigation or arbitration. Experienced litigation...
TikTok, Transit Agencies Face Wrongful Death Suit Over New York Teenager’s Death
Mar 23 2023 // Chinese company ByteDance and its popular social media platform TikTok are facing a wrongful death suit in New York over the 2022 death of a teenager. The suit alleges that TikTok sent thousands of unsolicited suicidal...
GM Must Face Class Actions Over Defective Transmissions
Mar 23 2023 // A federal judge in Detroit certified class actions for drivers in 26 U.S. states who accused General Motors Corp. of producing faulty transmissions for about 800,000 vehicles from the 2015 to 2019 model...
Zuckerberg, Meta Are Sued for Failing to Address Sex Trafficking, Child Exploitation
Mar 22 2023 // A new lawsuit accuses Mark Zuckerberg and other Meta Platforms Inc. executives and directors of failing to do enough to stop sex trafficking and child sexual exploitation on Facebook and Instagram. The complaint made...
Commerzbank Executive Wins £300,000 in Sex Discrimination Suit
Mar 22 2023 // A Commerzbank AG manager won more than £300,000 ($366,650) in a sex discrimination lawsuit following a long-standing legal battle with the bank. Jagruti Rajput, who was a senior compliance officer at the firm’s...
Google Asks London High Court to Throw Out Lawsuit Over Medical Records
Mar 22 2023 // Google asked London’s High Court on Tuesday to throw out a lawsuit brought on behalf of 1.6 million people over medical records provided to the tech giant by a British hospital trust. The Royal Free London NHS Trust...
Philadelphia Agrees to $9.25M Settlement Over 2020 Protest Lawsuits
Mar 22 2023 // Philadelphia officials announced a $9.25 million settlement Monday with hundreds of people over several lawsuits challenging the police response to the protests and civil disorder in 2020 after George Floyd’s death...
Rite Aid Faces Securities Suit Over Allegedly Filling Unlawful Opioid Prescriptions
Mar 21 2023 // A Rite Aid Corp. shareholder on March 20 filed a securities class action lawsuit against the company as well as former and current executives, alleging Rite Aid has given false or misleading statements regarding its...
Hawaii Officers, Sued Charged in Alleged Crash Coverup
Mar 20 2023 // Honolulu prosecutors filed charges against four police officers alleging a cover-up in connection with a high-speed car chase that they say resulted in a crash and a traumatic brain injury to the driver of another...
Norfolk Southern Shareholders Sue Over Ohio Derailment
Mar 20 2023 // Norfolk Southern Corp. shareholders have accused the railroad of defrauding them by prioritizing profit over safety prior to last month’s derailment of a train carrying hazardous chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio. In...
Hawaii Businessman Sued for $2M After Grounding Luxury Yacht
Mar 17 2023 // A business owner whose luxury yacht ran aground and leaked diesel fuel into waters off the Hawaiian island of Maui last month is being sued for more than $2 million in damages by a trust that sold him the vessel. The...
Wichita, Kansas Settles Fatal SWAT Shooting Suit for $5M
Mar 17 2023 // The city of Wichita on Tuesday approved a $5 million settlement of a lawsuit filed by the family of a man who was shot and killed by a police officer during a hoax call in 2017. The settlement will go to the two children...
Connecticut Gunmaker Sued by Son of Colorado Supermarket Shooting Victim
Mar 17 2023 // The son of one of 10 people killed at a Colorado supermarket in 2021 is suing gun-maker Sturm, Ruger & Co. over how it marketed the firearm used in the massacre – following the litigation road map set by families...
Albany Diocese Files for Bankruptcy Protection Amid Sex Abuse Litigation
Mar 16 2023 // The Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York as it, like other dioceses in the state, faces hundreds of lawsuits by survivors of sexual abuse by priests. Bishop Edward B....
Citgo’s Lawsuit Against Lloyd’s Insurer Over Seized Venezuelan Oil Gets Go-Ahead
Mar 16 2023 // Citgo Petroleum Corp. may move forward with an attempt to collect more than $40 million it claimed from insurers after Venezuelan authorities in 2020 seized almost a million barrels of its oil. US District Judge Gregory...
