All the headlines from our Casino Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 5 2023 // The death of four horses at Churchill Downs over a span of five days has overshadowed preparations for the Kentucky Derby.Two horses trained by Saffie Joseph Jr. collapsed on the track and died over the past week. Two...
Feb 22 2023 // The family of a Florida lawyer who suffered a heart attack at a Las Vegas blackjack table last year and died months later has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a casino.The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports David...
Feb 15 2023 // Atlantic City casino dealers pushing for a smoking ban received support from several state lawmakers Monday at a long-awaited hearing on a bill that would end smoking inside the nine casinos.Dealers, cocktail servers and...
Oct 6 2022 // A New York City man is suing an Atlantic City casino, its parent company and its online betting partner, alleging he was repeatedly disconnected while gambling online, and was given payments to prevent him from reporting...
Jun 10 2022 // A Connecticut casino and resort operator has lost its bid to obtain insurance reimbursement for business losses due to the COVID-19 virus.Factory Mutual Insurance Co. (FMI) has succeeded in having the resort’s...
Jun 7 2022 // On November 24, 2018, Alicia E. Shaffer Stalheim, 25, was murdered by her jealous boyfriend, Luis Rodriguez, seven months after Rodriguez learned Stalheim and her children met for ice cream with another man.Stalheim,...
Apr 25 2022 // Two people died in a casino fire in a small town in south-central Montana, Carbon County Sheriff Josh McQuillan said.Marla Murray, 71, and John Ahles, 33, died Wednesday morning in the fire at Honest Tom’s Saloon and...
Mar 28 2022 // A jury in Las Vegas has awarded $8 million to a middle school special education teacher who sued after being permanently injured when he was served cleaning solvents instead of tap beer at a casino bar.Lon Enwright, 38,...
Mar 21 2022 // Gov. Phil Murphy has named a long-time insurance industry executive to head the state agency helping to redevelop Atlantic City.Sean Pattwell was appointed executive director of the Casino Reinvestment Development...
Feb 3 2022 // In a federal lawsuit filed this week, State Farm Insurance accuses a chiropractor and his string of Florida clinics of widespread fraud by regularly and falsely claiming that car accident victims needed emergency care, so...
Nov 23 2021 // A federal judge has struck down a plan to give the Seminole Tribe of Florida a monopoly on sports betting and to expand two of the tribe’s hotels into Las Vegas-style casinos.The ruling by U.S. District Judge Dabney...
Nov 2 2021 // A company that made and operated casino-style games used for illegal gambling will pay $3.5 million and permanently stop its California operations under a court settlement.Pong Game Studios Corp. agreed to settle a lawsuit...
Jun 21 2021 // The Native American tribe that owns Connecticut’s Mohegan Sun casino is suing its insurance carrier over what it says was the denial of claims for millions of dollars in losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.The Day...
Jan 20 2021 // The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled last month that an online poker company must pay more than $1 billion to the state for illegal gambling losses in a court battle that began a decade ago.The ruling from the state’s...
Nov 30 2020 // Hurricane Zeta left a trail of destruction and millions in damage in Mississippi when it came ashore Oct. 28, state officials said.The state has documented tens of millions in damage from the storm, which had 100 mph winds...
Nov 23 2020 // A Mississippi Gulf Coast casino has become one of many businesses nationwide to sue its insurer for refusing to cover business losses because of the coronavirus pandemic.Island View Casino Resort in Gulfport contends in...
Nov 2 2020 // The family of an armed man shot and killed by security guards in a suburban Las Vegas casino-resort last year is suing.The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that the son of 53-year-old Shannon Howell filed a wrongful death...
Oct 16 2020 // The family of an armed man shot and killed by security guards in a suburban Las Vegas casino-resort last year is suing.The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that the son of 53-year-old Shannon Howell filed a wrongful death...
Oct 2 2020 // The owners of the horse racing track in New Orleans have agreed to pay a $2.8 million penalty for letting horse manure and urine into the city’s drainage system for at least six years and to spend twice that on...
Aug 17 2020 // A Nevada judge has said she wants proof she would have the authority to order the governor to rescind a coronavirus pandemic directive and let Las Vegas-area bars and taverns reopen.“What is the law that says I have...