All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 4 2021 // PARIS – A Paris court [held] a hearing Wednesday in a class-action effort to hold French health authorities and companies accountable after thousands with the virus died in nursing homes, and families were locked out and...
Mar 3 2021 // State regulators have filed a lawsuit accusing a Nebraska ethanol plant of repeatedly failing to comply with their orders to clean up wastewater and old, pesticide-laced seed corn.The lawsuit comes amid growing complaints...
Mar 3 2021 // Colorado’s Senate tentatively endorsed a bill this week to eliminate a six-year statute of limitations for victims of child sexual assault to pursue civil action against perpetrators, an effort lawmakers have...
Mar 2 2021 // An officer who made headlines for excessive use of force allegations and a whistleblower lawsuit resigned from the Springfield Police Department at the end of 2020.Ryan Stone and City Manager Nancy Newton signed a...
Mar 1 2021 // A Clark County, Wash., woman has filed a lawsuit against the city of Vancouver claiming that poor sidewalk maintenance contributed to her brother’s death more than a year ago.According to the suit, filed in Clark...
Mar 1 2021 // A Colorado woman is suing a Wyoming ski resort for more than $75,000 in damages after she said she broke her ribs during a chairlift accident.Sabita Shrestha, 75, said she, her daughter and a Snow King Mountain Resort...
Mar 1 2021 // Maryland’s capital city has filed a lawsuit against 26 oil and gas companies, saying their industry was taking the environment to a point where fighting climate change would be difficult.The City of Annapolis filed...
Mar 1 2021 // Chemours Co.’s directors were accused in a lawsuit of duping shareholders about its financial health and the extent of its legal liability at the time it was spun off from a predecessor of DuPont de Nemours Inc.When...
Feb 26 2021 // A coal company controlled by the family of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice must pay $270,000 to a nonprofit land protection group and comply with selenium discharge limits under a settlement approved by a federal judge.U.S....
Feb 26 2021 // Douglas County, Nebraska, has agreed to pay $120,00 to settle a lawsuit by the family of a woman who died while waiting nearly an hour for rescuers to find her Omaha home after she called 911. The Douglas County Board...
Feb 26 2021 // A Galveston, Texas-based marine services company, will pay $125,000 and furnish significant equitable relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit, federal officials say.The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
Feb 26 2021 // A federal judge has dismissed a discrimination lawsuit by a transgender fire chief who led a rural Georgia city’s fire department for more than a decade, then got fired 18 months after first coming to work as a...
Feb 25 2021 // The American Property Casualty Insurance Association is responding strongly to new litigation the group says is an attempt to capitalize on the ongoing pandemic by targeting the auto insurance marketplace.Class action...
Feb 25 2021 // Class action lawsuits were filed in Nevada against 10 major auto insurance companies this week, contending that the companies charged excessive insurance premiums during the pandemic by failing to account for a drop in...
Feb 25 2021 // A Kentucky parent has filed a lawsuit against the Kentucky High School Athletic Association over a policy on when student athletes can return to competition after testing positive for COVID-19.Jon Kelly Johnson, a dentist...
Feb 24 2021 // Missouri senators have passed a bill to shield hospitals, manufacturers and other businesses from lawsuits over alleged wrongdoing during the pandemic.The GOP-led Senate voted 20-13 in favor of the bill, which now goes to...
Feb 24 2021 // The Fire Victim Trust has filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court against certain former officers and directors of PG&E Corp. and Pacific Gas and Electric Co. for their role in causing the catastrophic 2017...
Feb 24 2021 // A Michigan-based aerospace components manufacturer will pay $60,000 and provide other relief to settle a federal age discrimination lawsuit, officials say.According to the lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment...
Feb 24 2021 // The widow and a friend of a man killed in an avalanche at a Lake Tahoe ski resort last year have filed separate lawsuits accusing the resort of negligently rushing to open the slopes in unsafe conditions for a holiday...
Feb 23 2021 // A Chambers County, Texas, resident has filed a class-action lawsuit against electricity retailer Griddy, accusing the provider of price gouging customers during last week’s freeze. She is seeking $1 billion in relief...