All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 21 2022 // The city of Los Angeles is suing Monsanto and two other companies for past and future costs of dealing with contamination of waterways by long-banned chemicals called polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, the city attorney...
Mar 18 2022 // Legal malpractice claims usually aren’t filed until after somebody loses a lawsuit. But what happens when the underlying dispute hasn’t been resolved, but a litigant has to hire new counsel to clean up mistakes...
Mar 17 2022 // Long John Silver’s will pay $200,000 and furnish other relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced.The EEOC charged...
Mar 17 2022 // Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. on March 17 filed lawsuits in Delaware federal court against Pfizer Inc. and Moderna Inc., claiming their multibillion-dollar mRNA COVID-19 vaccines infringe one its patents.Alnylam said it was...
Mar 16 2022 // Conservation groups are suing Gov. Greg Gianforte’s administration to obtain records related to its decision to drop legal claims against a mining executive over decades of pollution from several mines.The groups,...
Mar 16 2022 // A La Pine, Oregon, man is suing St. Charles Health System in Bend for $43.5 million after complications from brain surgery left him paralyzed.Jackie Dale Yeley filed the lawsuit in Deschutes County Circuit Court, through...
Mar 16 2022 // Four Rhode Island landlords who own properties in which children with lead poisoning live have been sued by the state for alleged noncompliance with state lead poisoning prevention laws, the attorney general’s office...
Mar 15 2022 // Stevens Transport, the largest refrigerated trucking company in Texas, will pay $75,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Mar 15 2022 // Wisconsin Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul filed a lawsuit March 14 against Johnson Controls and Tyco Fire Products over PFAS pollution in northeastern Wisconsin.The lawsuit, filed in Marinette County Circuit Court,...
Mar 14 2022 // King County has agreed to pay $750,000 to the family of a man who killed himself in a Seattle, Washington, jail after they filed a lawsuit alleging jail officials knew or should have known the man was in crisis but failed...
Mar 14 2022 // A south St. Louis County man who sued Ford Motor Co. over his exposure to asbestos has been awarded $20 million.In his lawsuit, William Trokey, 76, alleged that his exposure to asbestos while working on Ford brakes as a...
Mar 11 2022 // A committee of the Citizens Property Insurance Corp. governing body produced some good news on litigated claims and some bad news Thursday, giving further insight into a big part of Florida’s insurance market.The bad...
Mar 10 2022 // A federal appeals court ruled that a Las Vegas police detective can be sued for arresting protesters who chalked anti-police slogans on the sidewalk in front of the police station.Three activists arrested in 2013 broke an...
Mar 10 2022 // A California judge has ordered an online, for-profit university and its former parent company to pay $22 million in penalties, saying they mislead students about the costs of their education, among other things, the...
Mar 9 2022 // An Illinois federal judge said a policy exclusion for employment-related practices does not protect State Automobile Insurance Co. from defending a grocery chain accused of violating the Illinois Biometric Information...
Mar 9 2022 // A Texas oil pipeline billionaire is suing Beto O’Rourke for defamation after the Democrat criticized his $1 million donation to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s campaign following last year’s deadly winter...
Mar 9 2022 // Florida’s Senate Bill 76, signed into law last June, was supposed to help reduce insurance claims litigation by making policyholders give 10-day notice before they file suit. The idea was to give insurers a little...
Mar 8 2022 // The city of Los Angeles is suing Monsanto and two other companies for past and future costs of dealing with contamination of waterways by long-banned chemicals called polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, the city attorney...
Mar 8 2022 // The trial for a lawsuit accusing Denver, Colorado, police of using indiscriminate force two years ago against people protesting the killing of George Floyd started Monday in federal court.Opening statements will come after...
Mar 8 2022 // More than 50 years ago, nearly a dozen men incarcerated outside of Philadelphia enrolled in an experiment funded by Johnson & Johnson, according to unsealed documents. Now, those studies have come back to haunt the...