All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 14 2021 // New information from Florida’s insurance regulator paints a stark picture of the extent of litigation facing the state’s domestic insurers. The information comes as numerous stakeholders push for legislative...
Apr 13 2021 // A former Coquille city, Ore., employee has informed the city she plans to sue for whistleblower retaliation and a failure to provide due process during the course of her firing.Former city recorder Jennifer Rose filed a...
Apr 13 2021 // Egypt seized a giant container vessel that blocked the Suez Canal last month as it sought compensation of more than $900 million.A court in the city of Ismailia granted a seizure request regarding the Ever Given vessel at...
Apr 12 2021 // Egypt is still in talks about compensation stemming from the operations to free the giant container ship whose stranding in the Suez Canal for nearly a week roiled global cargo markets, the canal authority’s chief...
Apr 12 2021 // The Electric Reliability Council of Texas will argue that it has governmental immunity that protects it from the at least 35 lawsuits that have been filed against the operator after February’s disastrous winter storm...
Apr 12 2021 // Cincinnati, Ohio, has agreed to settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of a 16-year-old student who died three years ago after being accidentally trapped in a van and calling 911 twice.City officials...
Apr 12 2021 // In a $50 million federal racketeering lawsuit, an associate athletic director at Louisiana State University accuses university officials of retaliating against her for reporting racist remarks and inappropriate sexual...
Apr 9 2021 // Los Angeles will pay nearly $1.6 million to settle three lawsuits involving alleged wrongdoing by the city’s police department, a newspaper reported.The City Council voted 12-1 this week to approve the payouts, which...
Apr 9 2021 // A Seattle nursing home’s insurer has agreed to pay $8 million to settle a lawsuit brought on behalf of a disabled woman who was sexually assaulted while in the facility’s care.Foss Home and Village agreed to...
Apr 9 2021 // A judge in Maine has ruled that a woman who has impaired vision can go ahead with a claim against Uber, which she has said discriminated against her by refusing to allow her guide dog into a vehicle.The lawsuit stretches...
Apr 9 2021 // Egypt will release the giant container ship that had blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week once a deal is reached on compensation for related losses, the head of the canal’s authority said.“The ship is...
Apr 9 2021 // LONDON/LOS ANGELES – A backlog of container ships carrying consumer goods has grown in some key strategic ports after a near week-long blockage in the Suez Canal, adding to ongoing disruptions to global trade, industry...
Apr 8 2021 // A teachers union has sued a northwest Louisiana school system, saying a $1,000 bonus discriminates against women, older workers and disabled people.The Caddo Parish School Board approved the “Caddo Heroes Stipend...
Apr 8 2021 // Missouri Supreme Court has ruled that a lawsuit alleging a St. Louis Catholic school allowed sexual abuse against a student should continue.At issue is a lawsuit filed by a former student who graduated from Chaminade...
Apr 8 2021 // LONDON — Reinsurers are set to foot most of the bill for the grounding of the ship that halted traffic in the Suez Canal, industry sources said, with payouts expected to run into hundreds of millions of...
Apr 8 2021 // In a year of a decline in overall securities class action filing activity, the number of securities class action filings involving accounting allegations increased in 2020 for the third consecutive year.According to a...
Apr 7 2021 // ISMAILIA, Egypt – The Suez Canal chief said Tuesday that authorities are negotiating a financial settlement with the owners of a massive vessel that blocked the crucial waterway for nearly a week.Lt. Gen. Osama Rabie...
Apr 7 2021 // Iowa will pay $225,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who was injured when a state trooper knocked him over and put his knee on his neck during a 2017 traffic stop, according to documents.The payment to Bryce Yakish...
Apr 7 2021 // The son of a California man who choked to death during an amateur taco eating contest at a minor league baseball game is suing the event’s organizers for negligence.Eighteen-year-old Marshall Hutchings’ lawsuit...
Apr 7 2021 // The American Property Casualty Insurance Association is suing to halt emergency regulations recently filed by Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler to ban the use of credit-based insurance scores in the rating...