All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 17 2021 // The Clark County Council in Washington has agreed to pay Don Benton and two other former county employees $1.4 million less than four months after a jury awarded the trio $693,998 in a wrongful termination lawsuit.The...
Sep 16 2021 // Federal authorities have sued a Louisiana restaurant for allegedly violating federal law against pregnancy discrimination in hiring.The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit that...
Sep 16 2021 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit that ISS Facility Services, Inc., a workplace experience and facility management company, unlawfully denied its employee’s reasonable...
Sep 15 2021 // Washington state troopers, prison correctional officers, ferry workers and other public sector employees have filed a lawsuit to try to overturn Gov. Jay Inslee’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.The Northwest News Network...
Sep 13 2021 // The state of Washington has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by 10 people who said they were sexually abused at a juvenile rehabilitation facility when they were teenagers.One of the plaintiffs lives in Pierce County,...
Sep 13 2021 // The estate of a man fatally shot in downtown Portland, Ore., after a pro-Trump car rally last year is suing the city, the mayor and the county district attorney, saying their negligence contributed to his violent death.The...
Sep 13 2021 // A federal jury has awarded $7.5 million in damages to a suburban Chicago sheriff’s deputy who sued after he was severely injured during a 2014 training exercise.The (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald reported that the...
Sep 10 2021 // FRANKFURT/WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into German insurer Allianz is looking at possible misconduct by fund managers and misrepresentation of risk to investors, three people with...
Sep 10 2021 // Federal employment officials say Texas-based Dell Inc. has agreed to settle a lawsuit alleging the company paid a female IT systems analyst less than male coworker for the same work.U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
Sep 9 2021 // Federal employment officials say a Minnesota debt collector has settled a lawsuit alleging the company fired Christian employee after he refused to be fingerprinted due to his religious beliefs.AscensionPoint Recovery...
Sep 7 2021 // Two of the industry’s biggest poultry companies have agreed to pay nearly $35 million to settle a lawsuit that accused them and several other firms of conspiring to dominate the industry and fix the prices paid to...
Sep 7 2021 // A paraplegic man who was injured on a roller coaster is now suing a Utah amusement park, saying his paralyzed leg wasn’t properly secured while he was on the ride and his foot was shredded.The Salt Lake Tribune...
Sep 7 2021 // A family that lost five members in a tubing accident on a North Carolina river is suing Duke Energy, saying the utility failed to adequately warn people that its dam poses life-threatening risks.Their lawsuit, filed in...
Sep 3 2021 // Federal employment officials charged a dairy processor for allegedly firing an employee rather than accommodate her disability at a Michigan facility.The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) cited Agropur...
Sep 3 2021 // A police captain on the Hawaii island of Kauai has filed a lawsuit alleging his police chief discriminated against him for being Japanese American, including an episode when the chief squinted his eyes, bowed repeatedly...
Sep 3 2021 // An Arizona Supreme Court ruling rejects a major part of a Tucson hospital’s lawsuit accusing a pharmacy chain of negligence and seeking compensation for care provided to opioid-addicted patients.The justices ruled...
Sep 3 2021 // A federal judge on Thursday said Apple Inc. must face nearly all of a proposed class action lawsuit claiming that its voice-activated Siri assistant violates users’ privacy.U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White said the...
Sep 2 2021 // John Peter Smith Hospital (JPS) in Tarrant County, Texas, will pay more than $3.3 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by upcoding certain claims submitted to federal healthcare programs, the...
Sep 2 2021 // The top U.S. securities regulator on Wednesday sued the founder of the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange platform BitConnect over his alleged role in fraudulently raising about $2 billion from retail investors.Expanding...
Sep 2 2021 // A U.S. judge said on Wednesday he would approve OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP’s bankruptcy reorganization plan, clearing a path to resolve thousands of opioid lawsuits and shielding the company’s wealthy...