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JPMorgan Must Face Suit by Ray-Ban Maker Unit Over Cyber Theft

Jan 5 2023 // JPMorgan Chase Bank NA will have to face a lawsuit by a unit of the French maker of Ray-Ban glasses that claims the bank ignored suspicious transactions as cybercriminals drained $272 million from its New York bank...

Markets/Coverages: CNA Hardy Offers Enhanced Product Suite for UK Tech Businesses

Jan 5 2023 // CNA Hardy, a specialist commercial insurance provider for clients within the Lloyd’s and company markets, announced the latest addition to its specialist technology product suite.The product, called “Technology...

Trader Joe’s Sued Over Lead, Cadmium Levels in Dark Chocolate

Jan 5 2023 // Trader Joe’s was sued on Wednesday by a consumer who accused the grocery chain of misleading and endangering shoppers by selling dark chocolate that contains harmful levels of lead and cadmium.The proposed class...

Washington AG Sues Plastic Surgery Provider for Fake Reviews

Jan 4 2023 // Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson has filed a lawsuit against a plastic surgery provider in the Seattle area over claims it misled patients and the public “through a multitude of unlawful, unfair and...

Cameraman Hurt on New Mexico Film Set Gets $66M in Lawsuit

Jan 4 2023 // A Los Angeles cameraman who suffered a spinal cord injury while on a New Mexico movie set has been awarded more than $66 million in a lawsuit, among the largest settlements in the state’s history, a news outlet...

Google Paying Indiana $20M to Resolve Privacy Suit

Jan 3 2023 // Google will pay Indiana $20 million to resolve the state’s lawsuit against the technology giant over allegedly deceptive location tracking practices, state Attorney General Todd Rokita announced.Rokitas filed a...

Southwest Airlines Is Sued for Not Providing Refunds After Meltdown

Jan 3 2023 // Southwest Airlines has been sued by a passenger who said it failed to provide refunds to passengers left stranded when an operational meltdown led the carrier to cancel more than 15,000 flights late last month.In a...

Banks Seek to Quash Women’s Lawsuits in Jeffrey Epstein Case

Jan 3 2023 // Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan Chase are asking a federal court to throw out lawsuits that claim the big banks should have seen evidence of sex trafficking by Jeffrey Epstein, the high-flying financier who killed himself in...

Another Woman Files Sex Abuse Suit Against Cosby, NBC Under New York Extension

Jan 3 2023 // A woman who alleges Bill Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in 1986 sued the comedian-actor, NBCUniversal and other companies Friday in New York, where five other women filed a similar lawsuit earlier this...

U.S. Sues AmerisourceBergen, Says Distributor Helped Ignite Opioid Epidemic

Jan 3 2023 // The U.S. government filed a lawsuit accusing AmerisourceBergen Corp., one of the nation’s largest drug distributors, of helping ignite the nation’s deadly opioid epidemic by failing to report hundreds of...

Boy Scouts, Catholic Dioceses Find Haven From Sex Abuse Suits in Bankruptcy

Jan 3 2023 // Lawmakers around the United States have tried to grant justice to victims of decades-old incidents of child sexual abuse by giving them extra time to file lawsuits. Now some of the defendants in these cases, including...

Court Asked to Enforce $3 Million Settlement of Suit Over Virginia Police Shooting

Jan 3 2023 // VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Several parties to a wrongful death lawsuit over the fatal police shooting of a Black man on the Virginia Beach oceanfront last year have asked a judge to enforce the $3 million settlement...

Suit Alleges Agency Liable in Accidental Child Shooting Due to Home Office

Jan 3 2023 // The parents of a Maine three-year old boy who accidentally shot himself with a loaded pistol filed a negligence suit against the owner of a Vermont home where the boy found the gun while on a visit. The boy’s family...

Appeals Court Rules Against Transgender Man in Florida Bathroom Suit

Jan 2 2023 // A federal appeals court has ruled that a Florida school district’s policy of separating school bathrooms based on biological sex is constitutional.The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announced its 7-4 decision on...

Exxon Sues to Force EU to Scrap New Windfall Profits Tax on Oil Companies

Dec 29 2022 // U.S. oil major Exxon Mobil Corp. is suing the European Union in a bid to force it to scrap the bloc’s new windfall tax on oil groups, arguing Brussels exceeded its legal authority by imposing the levy.Record profits...

Google, YouTube Content Providers Must Face U.S. Children’s Privacy Lawsuit

Dec 29 2022 // A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday revived a lawsuit accusing Alphabet Inc’s Google and several other companies of violating the privacy of children under age 13 by tracking their YouTube activity without parental...

Red Roof Inns Fined $43K Over Ohio Disability Discrimination Suit

Dec 28 2022 // Red Roof Inns, Inc. (Red Roof) will pay $43,188.00 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced.According to the EEOC’s...

Judge Eyes Sanctions Against Tx. Law Firm for Filing Frivolous Lawsuits

Dec 28 2022 // A law firm that was called into a federal judge’s courtroom to explain why there were so many errors in the hurricane lawsuits it filed against insurers now finds itself in hot water with a second federal judge.US...

FTX Customers File Class Action to Lay Claim to Dwindling Assets

Dec 28 2022 // FTX customers filed a class action lawsuit against the failed crypto exchange and its former top executives including Sam Bankman-Fried on Tuesday, seeking a declaration that the company’s holdings of digital assets...

Lawsuits Alleging Maine Church Knew About Sex Abuse Now Number 14

Dec 23 2022 // Two more people have filed lawsuits alleging sexual abuse by a Roman Catholic clergy member and a nun — both deceased — raising the number to over a dozen since Maine loosened the statute of limitations last year.One...