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Houston Company to Pay $50.9K to Settle Federal Age Discrimination Suit

Mar 31 2021 // A Houston-based engineering and construction company will pay a former employee $50,960 to resolve an age discrimination lawsuit, federal officials say.The lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...

Lengthy Legal Battles Expected from Suez Canal’s Longest Closure in Almost 50 Years

Mar 30 2021 // The Suez Canal may be open again, but the battle over damages from the waterway’s longest closure in almost half a century is just beginning.With cargoes delayed for weeks if not months, the blockage could unleash a...

Indiana Sandwich Shop to Pay $28.7K to Settle Disability Discrimination Suit

Mar 30 2021 // A Bloomington, Ind., fast-food sandwich shop will settle a federal disability discrimination lawsuit for $28,700, authorities say.The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in its suit that Ranrae...

California County Paying $4M in Misconduct Suits

Mar 30 2021 // San Diego County has so far spent more than $4 million to settle a dozen lawsuits brought after a sheriff’s deputy admitted to on-duty misconduct with 16 women, a newspaper reported Sunday.The Union-Tribune cited...

Boeing Directors Seek Dismissal of Investors’ Lawsuit Over 737 MAX Safety

Mar 30 2021 // Boeing Co. asked a Delaware court to throw out a shareholders’ lawsuit over the safety of its 737 MAX following fatal crashes, saying the board engaged in “robust and well-established” oversight of...

Insurance Unlikely to Cover All Shipowners’ Expenses Incurred in Suez Closure Chaos

Mar 30 2021 // The owners and charterers of ships unable to sail through the the Suez Canal for nearly a week face at least $24 million in expenses they will be unable to recoup as their insurance policies do not cover them, industry...

Supreme Court Grapples With Investor Class Actions in Goldman Sachs Securities Case

Mar 30 2021 // U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday struggled in a case involving Goldman Sachs Group Inc. over how judges should determine when shareholders can collectively sue publicly traded companies for fraudulent statements that...

Mastercard Battles Attempts to Expand Scope of $19B Class Action in UK

Mar 29 2021 // LONDON – Mastercard, a global payment processor, is battling attempts to add about 14 million deceased people to a 14 billion pound-plus ($19.3 billion) British class action in an effort to limit the scope of the...

OSHA Sues Texas Hotel Operator for Whistleblower Law, Other Violations

Mar 29 2021 // Federal officials have sued the operator of a hotel in Waller, Texas, after it fired an employee who sought medical help after being exposed to carbon monoxide and reported the incident.According to U.S. Department of...

Suez Canal Blockage Likely to Bring Large Losses for Global Reinsurers: Fitch

Mar 29 2021 // The blocking of the Suez Canal and resulting disruption to global shipping is likely to cause a large loss event for the reinsurance industry, according to Fitch Ratings.This event will reduce global reinsurers’...

Update: Stranded Container Ship Is Refloated; Suez Canal Shipping Traffic Resumes

Mar 29 2021 // ISMAILIA, Egypt – Shipping was on the move again late on Monday in Egypt’s Suez Canal after tugs refloated a giant container ship which had been blocking the channel for almost a week, causing a huge build-up of...

U.S. Supreme: Accident Victims Can Sue Ford in Minnesota, Montana State Courts

Mar 26 2021 // The Supreme Court has ruled that Michigan-based Ford Motor Co. can be sued in the state courts of people who were killed or seriously injured in accidents involving Ford vehicles.The justices unanimously rejected the...

Suez Canal Blockage Could Cost Global Trade $6B-$10B per Week: Allianz

Mar 26 2021 // BERLIN – The container ship blocking the Suez Canal could cost global trade $6 billion to $10 billion a week, a study by German insurer Allianz showed on Friday.The study by Europe’s biggest insurer also found that...

Container Ship Could Block Suez Canal Like a ‘Beached Whale’ for Weeks

Mar 25 2021 // ISMAILIA, Egypt – A huge container ship blocking the Suez Canal like a “beached whale” may take weeks to free, the salvage company said, as officials stopped all ships entering the channel on Thursday in a...

Battle Brews over Texas Bills Aimed at Commercial Vehicle Accident Lawsuits

Mar 25 2021 // A battle is brewing between trucking and insurance industry interests and trial lawyers in Texas over a pair of companion bills introduced in the Texas House and Senate that proponents say are aimed at providing...

Huge Backlog of Ships Waits for Salvage Team to Re-Float Vessel Blocking Suez Canal

Mar 25 2021 // A huge backlog of vessels was building up around the Suez Canal amid warnings that the salvage team could need days — or even weeks — to prise out the giant container ship that’s blocking the crucial...

Minnesota District to Pay $300K to Settle Transgender Student Discrimination Suit

Mar 25 2021 // Minnesota’s largest school district will pay $300,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit with a transgender student who was barred from using the boys’ locker room, school officials and supporters of the...

Lawsuit Against BHP over Brazil Dam Collapse Fails on Appeal in English Court

Mar 25 2021 // LONDON – A 200,000-strong Brazilian claimant group said on Wednesday it had failed to resurrect a 5.0 billion pound ($6.9 billion) English lawsuit against Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP over a devastating 2015 dam...

Insurers of Container Ship Aground in Suez Canal Face Millions in Claims

Mar 25 2021 // LONDON – The owner and insurers of one of the world’s largest container ships stuck in the Suez Canal face claims totalling millions of dollars even if the ship is refloated quickly, industry sources said on...

Insurtech Root Hit With Shareholder Lawsuit Alleging Negligence, Omissions in IPO Filing

Mar 24 2021 // With shares of Root Inc. trading at less than 50 percent of the late October 2020 IPO price of $27 per share, the insurtech carrier has been named in a shareholders class action complaint, Carrier Management has...