All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 8 2021 // The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by two state police officers accused of failing to protect a woman from a man who went on a deadly rampage, allowing a civil lawsuit to proceed.Troopers were accused of...
Oct 8 2021 // Seven insurers that shared the risk for directors and officers policies sold to Towers Watson may have to pay up to $80 million for settlements with shareholders who cried foul after learning that the brokerage’s...
Oct 7 2021 // Last week, Praedicat, a liability risk analytics company, announced that it launched a new Company Risk Score designed to simplify the underwriting of complex emerging risks for liability insurance.The risk score, ranging...
Oct 7 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 7 2021 // A Nigerian oil producer sued Royal Dutch Shell Plc for more than $2 billion over the ownership of oil wells, intensifying a dispute around an asset sale completed six years ago.Aiteo Eastern E&P Co. Ltd. claims that...
Oct 6 2021 // A judge’s order to give the deworming drug ivermectin to a critically ill COVID-19 patient invites more lawsuits demanding unapproved drugs for life-threatening illnesses, a Louisiana hospital says.St. Tammany Health...
Oct 6 2021 // The parents of a 3-year-old boy who died after being infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba that was found at a Texas splash pad he’d visited sued the city that operated it for negligence.Tariq Williams and Kayla...
Oct 6 2021 // A federal jury in Los Angeles awarded $6.3 million to actor Shannen Doherty on Monday in a lawsuit alleging that State Farm failed to pay sufficiently for damage to her house in a 2018 California wildfire.The jury found...
Oct 6 2021 // Syracuse University will pay $3.7 million to settle a lawsuit brought by five female faculty members who claimed they were paid less than their male counterparts who held equivalent positions.The settlement entered in...
Oct 5 2021 // A Lynnwood, Wash., man is suing after police raided his apartment and later determined they had the wrong address.Juan Alberto Castaneda Miranda said agents burst into his apartment in 2018, according to a pair of lawsuits...
Oct 5 2021 // Since the pandemic began, most of the COVID-19-related business interruption disputes have not gone in favor of the policyholders, especially in federal court. More than 90% of motions to dismiss in federal lawsuits, in...
Oct 5 2021 // Cyberattacks may affect more than organizations’ pocketbooks. They can also hinder a hospital’s care during a crucial moment, a lawsuit filed in Mobile, Alabama, claims.The mother of a child who was born during...
Oct 1 2021 // Defense company Northrop Grumman knew for more than a decade that chemicals from a site it owns near Missouri’s Springfield-Branson Airport were contaminating groundwater in surrounding property, according to a...
Oct 1 2021 // Federal watchdogs are suing Portland, Ore.-based Viewpoint Construction Software and its recruiting firm CampusPoint Corp., alleging they refused to hire a job applicant who is deaf.Viewpoint makes software that...
Oct 1 2021 // Federal officials allege in a lawsuit that a Texas-based company unlawfully fired disabled workers because of their inability to pass an essential functions test.The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charged in a...
Oct 1 2021 // A lawsuit accuses the Catholic Diocese of Nashville of failing to protect a minor child from sexual abuse by an employee at a Murfreesboro church.The suit filed in Circuit Court in Nashville claims the diocese received...
Sep 30 2021 // More than 150 homeowners in a development outside Rapid City, South Dakota, are suing Meade County over risks to their properties after a sinkhole exposed an abandoned gypsum mine.The federal complaint filed Sept. 27 by...
Sep 30 2021 // Ford Motor Company has been charged in a federal lawsuit with violating the law when it made a conditional offer of hire to a pregnant applicant but failed to hire her even though she was qualified and passed a company...
Sep 30 2021 // A federal agency has charged in a lawsuit that an Arkansas site preparation company steered Black applicants into lower-paying positions and paid Black applicants less money at hire.In its lawsuit the U.S. Equal Employment...
Sep 30 2021 // State lawmakers are poised to consider bipartisan bills aimed at helping potentially thousands of sex abuse victims sue for damages, including those molested by a University of Michigan sports physician.It is the second...