All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 30 2021 // A woman has filed a lawsuit against King County Metro in Washington claiming a bus driver ran over her leg while she was laying on a Renton sidewalk and then drove away.Jessica Chapel’s injuries were so severe that...
Sep 29 2021 // A federal agency charged in a lawsuit that an Illinois-based research organization denied promotion to female engineer after she complained about sex-based discrimination.Fermi Research Alliance LLC (Fermi), a particle...
Sep 29 2021 // Greyhound Lines Inc. will pay $2.2 million to settle a lawsuit over the bus line’s practice of allowing U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents to board its buses in Washington state to conduct warrantless...
Sep 28 2021 // Federal officials filed two lawsuits in Texas courts, alleging that a pharmacy in Fabens and a coffeehouse in Ft. Worth both discriminated against employees with disabilities that rendered them vulnerable to serious...
Sep 28 2021 // Delaware’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit against chemical company Monsanto and spinoffs Solutia and Pharmacia, alleging long-lasting damage to the state’s natural resources.The lawsuit filed Delaware...
Sep 28 2021 // Maine’s attorney general is seeking proposals from law firms willing to assist with potential legal claims over chemical contamination in the state.The state is considering legal claims over so-called PCBs and a...
Sep 27 2021 // Gas utility Southern California Gas (SoCalGas), a unit of Sempra Energy, said on Monday it has reached agreements that are expected to resolve substantially all civil litigation related to a 2015 natural gas storage...
Sep 27 2021 // A federal lawsuit alleges women working at a Nebraska railyard were subjected to sexual harassment and managers failed to do anything about it, in violation of federal law.BNSF Railway Company (BNSF), a major North...
Sep 27 2021 // A Chicago suburb will pay $275,000 to a former police officer who says colleagues discriminated against him because of his Assyrian and Iraqi heritage.Anfiny J. Eshoo sued the village of Arlington Heights last year, saying...
Sep 27 2021 // United Airlines Inc is facing claims that it unlawfully denied religious and medical exemptions from a requirement that employees receive COVID-19 vaccines after allegedly making it difficult for workers to apply for...
Sep 24 2021 // A Dallas-based trucking company violated federal law when it refused to hire applicant after learning he had taken medical leave at a previous job, according to a lawsuit filed by federal employment officials.Stevens...
Sep 24 2021 // A federal judge dismissed some of the biggest unsettled lawsuits over Ohio State’s failure to stop decades-old sexual abuse by now-deceased team doctor Richard Strauss, saying it’s indisputable Strauss abused...
Sep 24 2021 // JPMorgan Chase & Co. agreed to pay $15.7 million in cash to settle a class action lawsuit by investors who accused the largest U.S. bank of intentionally manipulating prices of U.S. Treasury futures and options.The...
Sep 24 2021 // A man who was punched and kicked in the head by Georgia police officers during a traffic stop four years ago has filed a lawsuit alleging the stop was unjustified and the officers used excessive force against him.Gwinnett...
Sep 23 2021 // A lawsuit alleges that Louisiana’s largest electric utility used a “bubble gum and super glue” approach to maintenance and construction that left customers sweltering in the dark without adequate sewage...
Sep 23 2021 // Although a U.S. Supreme Court decision put an end to climate lawsuits alleging violations of the federal common law of public nuisance, a second round of state actions may get further, researchers said recently.There are...
Sep 23 2021 // Federal or state court? How will attribution science impact climate litigation?The questions aren’t the only ones of interest to insurers and reinsurers wanting to understand the potential for mass climate liability...
Sep 23 2021 // A rising amount of litigation tied to the environmental and health impacts of greenhouse gas emissions prompted a question from the leader of a liability risk analytics company recently: “Is it about climate...
Sep 23 2021 // A man who accused Seattle police officers of physical abuse after they entered his home two years ago during a welfare check has reached a $250,000 settlement with the city.Under the settlement, the city didn’t admit...
Sep 22 2021 // A Wisconsin school district has settled a lawsuit brought by a former student who said the district ignored years of complaints by her and her mother about multiple sexual assaults and a pattern of racial...