All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 20 2021 // Officials in Missouri’s Jackson County approved a settlement with a church that had sued over COVID-19 restrictions that it claimed discriminated against religion.The Jackson County Legislature voted to approve a...
Oct 20 2021 // Tokio Marine American Insurance has filed a lawsuit against the owners of a Georgia warehouse, where 50,000 tons of wood pellets caught fire in May and burned for days.Tokio had insured the biofuel pellets, and it alleges...
Oct 18 2021 // House Democrats are calling for action on legislation that would remove time limits restricting when sexual assault victims could file lawsuits against their perpetrator. The lawmakers are also urging that hearings be held...
Oct 18 2021 // A western Washington county has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a man shot in the head in 2017 by a sheriff’s deputy and who died about a year later in 2018.The News Tribune...
Oct 18 2021 // A Massachusetts bakery has agreed to pay up to $95,000 in penalties and restitution, require anti-bias training for employees, and revise its anti-discrimination policies to settle allegations that an employee was...
Oct 18 2021 // Amazon.com Inc. has been accused of violating Colorado state law by failing to pay warehouse workers for time spent undergoing COVID-19 screenings before clocking in at work.Jennifer Vincenzetti, who worked at two Amazon...
Oct 15 2021 // As Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republican Texas leaders wage a war against vaccination mandates meant to curb COVID-19, a state Senate committee on Oct. 14 advanced legislation that would make any entity, including...
Oct 15 2021 // Australia’s corporate regulator commenced civil proceedings against a unit of Insurance Australia Group on Friday, for failing to pass on discounts worth A$60 million ($44.51 million) to nearly 600,000 customers.The...
Oct 15 2021 // The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), a business group, sued the U.S. securities regulator on Wednesday for refusing to enforce a Trump-era rule reining-in companies that advise investors on how to vote in...
Oct 14 2021 // An Austin luxury car dealer has been sued by the U.S. Department of Labor for terminating an employee who warned managers and other co-workers about potential coronavirus hazards in the workplace.The action follows an OSHA...
Oct 13 2021 // Another Wisconsin mother has filed a federal lawsuit over the lack of COVID-19 protocols at her son’s school.WEAU-TV reported that Gina Kildahl filed the suit on Oct. 11 in Madison. She’s seeking an injunction...
Oct 13 2021 // Johnson & Wales University is suing its insurer over financial losses caused by the coronavirus pandemic, alleging the company breached its contract because it did not allow the university to claim pandemic-related...
Oct 13 2021 // Federal authorities say a Chicago meat processing company that was charged with unlawfully harassing black employees, rejecting them for hire, and firing a black employee for complaining, will pay more than $1 million to...
Oct 12 2021 // A parent has sued a southeastern Wisconsin school district after her son contracted COVID-19 from a classmate.The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Shannon Jensen filed the lawsuit in federal court against the...
Oct 12 2021 // Royal Philips NV will face more than 100 U.S. lawsuits gathered in a Pennsylvania court over its recall of more than 3 million devices used to treat sleep apnea that are linked to cancer concerns.Amsterdam-based Philips,...
Oct 11 2021 // Federal equal employment officials say an Oklahoma-based inspection services company subjected black employee to a racially hostile work environment, then fired him for complaining.The lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal...
Oct 11 2021 // A class action lawsuit that claims Australia is misleading investors by failing to disclose the impact of climate risk in its bonds will proceed after government lawyers failed to get the case dismissed.The lawsuit may...
Oct 11 2021 // A Missouri woman is suing GEICO after contracting a sexually transmitted disease in a car insured by the company.The woman, identified in District Court documents as M.O., had a sexual relationship with the insured, M.B.,...
Oct 8 2021 // A small number of employees of Louisiana’s largest health system are suing to block a requirement that they get the COVID-19 vaccine in order to keep their jobs.The lawsuits filed in Louisiana state district courts...
Oct 8 2021 // Federal workplace officials say a Houston-based electrical supply company unlawfully fired employee one day before his scheduled cancer surgery.The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) says Spike Electric...