Hawaiian Electric Pegs Loss at $1.7 Billion From Maui Fire August 12, 2024 By Mark Chediak Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. pegged losses from estimated accrual of liabilities stemming from one of the worst wildfires in US...
Families of Loved Ones Left Decaying in Colorado Funeral Home Owed $950M August 8, 2024 By Jesse Bedayn The Colorado funeral home owners who allegedly stored 190 decaying bodies and sent grieving families fake ashes were ordered by...
Environmental Groups Sue Suncor for Colorado Refinery Pollution August 7, 2024 By Nia Williams Environmental groups filed a lawsuit against Suncor Energy on Tuesday, alleging that pollution from the company’s Commerce City refinery in...
Captain in California Scuba Boat Fire Must Pay $32K to Families of 3 of 34 People Killed August 2, 2024 By Stefanie Dazio and Jaimie Ding A scuba dive boat captain was ordered to pay about $32,000 in restitution to the families of three of the...
OSHA Cites Construction Company in Deadly Idaho Airport Hangar Collapse August 2, 2024 Federal safety investigators cited a construction company in the deadly collapse of an Idaho airport hangar, saying it exercised a...
Bayer’s Monsanto to Pay $160M to Resolve Seattle’s PCB Contamination Lawsuit July 29, 2024 By Jonathan Stempel Monsanto will pay $160 million to settle a lawsuit by the city of Seattle that accused the unit of Germany’s...
Uber, Lyft, DoorDash Prevail in California Gig-Worker Ruling July 25, 2024 By Natalie Lung Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. can keep classifying California drivers as independent contractors, after the state’s top court said...
California Homeowners Sue FAIR Plan Over Smoke Damage Coverage July 25, 2024 A class action lawsuit is being brought on behalf of more than 350,000 policyholders against the California FAIR Plan over...
California Contractor Settles EEOC Harassment Charge July 23, 2024 Fremont, California-based contractor Superior Automatic Sprinkler Co. agreed to provide monetary and injunctive relief to a construction worker following an...
Buffett’s PacifiCorp Suspected of Collusion by Wildfire Victims’ Law Firms July 22, 2024 By Jonathan Stempel The law firms leading class-action litigation against PacifiCorp over the 2020 Labor Day weekend wildfires in Oregon want to examine...