All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 28 2022 // Insureds cannot recover damages from the insurance company if they failed to comply with the policy and failed to allow the insurer to make the needed repairs, a Florida appeals court decided Wednesday.Florida’s 3rd...
Jul 28 2022 // The state of New Hampshire sued pharmacy chains Tuesday, becoming the latest government entity seeking to hold them accountable for fueling the nation’s deadly opioid epidemic.The lawsuit filed by Attorney General...
Jul 28 2022 // The parents of a 14-year-old girl killed by Los Angeles police in a clothing store last year have filed a lawsuit against the department and the officer whose rifle round pierced a dressing room wall.Valentina Orellana...
Jul 28 2022 // Providence St. Joseph Health, the largest healthcare system in Washington state, failed to provide in-person American Sign Language interpreters for deaf patients, leaving them at the mercy of virtual interpreters whose...
Jul 27 2022 // 3M Co. put its Aearo Technologies unit into bankruptcy in a bid to resolve more than 230,000 lawsuits brought mainly by US military veterans over allegedly faulty combat earplugs.The conglomerate has already spent nearly...
Jul 27 2022 // Teva Pharmaceutical Industries on Tuesday announced a $4.35 billion proposed nationwide settlement that could resolve thousands of lawsuits over the drugmaker’s alleged role in the U.S. opioid epidemic.The proposal...
Jul 26 2022 // US poultry producers Cargill Inc., Sanderson Farms Inc. and Wayne Farms LLC agreed to pay $84.8 million restitution for conspiring to lower wages for workers at chicken slaughterhouses as part of a settlement with the US...
Jul 26 2022 // Online marketplace Amazon can be sued under New Jersey product liability law for defective products sold by third-party sellers on its website.The federal district court in New Jersey sided with the New Jersey...
Jul 25 2022 // A federal lawsuit filed last Thursday alleges Chicago police misused “unreliable” gunshot detection technology and failed to pursue other leads in investigating a grandfather from the city’s South Side...
Jul 25 2022 // Twenty men who said they were sexually abused at a prestigious boarding school in Georgia are now suing the school’s insurance companies for $345 million. The insurers argue that their policies did not cover the...
Jul 22 2022 // California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a controversial gun control bill that was modeled after Texas’ vigilante abortion law, which enables private citizens to file lawsuits against anyone who imports,...
Jul 22 2022 // An environmental group took the first step Wednesday toward filing suit over plans by Alabama Power Co. to leave millions of pounds of coal ash near a riverside within the vast Mobile-Tensaw Delta, which activists say...
Jul 22 2022 // The city of Portland has paid $55,000 to two independent journalists who alleged excessive force by Portland police during a 2020 Black Lives Matter demonstration.An investigation after their lawsuit was filed determined...
Jul 22 2022 // The Los Angeles Police Department will pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit by a legally blind man who said he was beaten, strapped to a hospital gurney and nearly suffocated during an arrest three years ago, attorneys...
Jul 21 2022 // An Indianapolis doctor who performed an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio took the first step Tuesday toward suing Indiana’s attorney general for defamation.Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an Indianapolis...
Jul 21 2022 // Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to force nearly 20 companies that he alleges contaminated the environment with chemicals known as PFAS to reimburse the state for investigations and...
Jul 21 2022 // The Oakland City Council agreed to approve a $360,000 settlement with a former council member who filed a lawsuit alleging the city and police violated his civil rights when officers threw him face-down inside City Hall in...
Jul 21 2022 // TikTok faces a claim that its algorithm steers more violent videos to minority subscribers than to White users in a lawsuit blaming the platform for the death of a 14-year-old African-American girl.The complaint, which...
Jul 21 2022 // Rhode Island has sued five more landlords who rent properties in which children with lead poisoning live, the state attorney general said Monday.The three properties in Providence, one in Central Falls, and one in Newport...
Jul 21 2022 // Former Virginia Gov. Doug Wilder recently sued leaders of the Richmond university where he works following a public personnel dispute in which Wilder had pushed for the firing of an employee he accused of threatening...