All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 10 2020 // A federal appeals court reinstated a wrongful death lawsuit against two police officers in Ohio’s capital city over the 2016 shooting of a Black man by undercover officers.In a ruling issued Sept. 8, a three-judge...
Sep 10 2020 // It’s been 3 years since Hurricane Irma made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 storm, and the trail of damage left in its wake is still being felt across the state today, particularly by the insurance industry as it...
Sep 9 2020 // A non-profit health care system based in Saginaw, Mich., will pay $104,707 and provide other relief to settle a federal gender wage discrimination lawsuit.The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged in...
Sep 9 2020 // Another federal court has dismissed a COVID-19 business interruption lawsuit, finding that a closure order does not constitute a covered “direct physical loss” and that the policy excluded damages caused by...
Sep 8 2020 // South Carolina sued the owner of a site where a massive pile of trash burned and smoldered for months, demanding $5 million to pay back what the state spent to put out the fire and clean up the site.Able Contracting Inc....
Sep 7 2020 // Rulings in two lawsuits originating in Texas over business income losses related to the COVID-19 pandemic were handed down in August in favor of insurance firms.In one, an insurance agency was added to a restaurant...
Sep 7 2020 // Two agribusinesses in Washington state will distribute $325,000 among 105 Thai farm workers to settle a federal national origin and race discrimination lawsuit.The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said the...
Sep 7 2020 // A former student at a high school in Washington state who survived a school shooting is suing the district for what she claims was a preventable attack.The mass shooting killed four students and the gunman in 2014. Carmen...
Sep 7 2020 // UCLA filed a lawsuit against Under Armour in late August in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles for breach of contract, seeking damages in excess of $200 million.Under Armour announced in late June that it was ending its...
Sep 4 2020 // The mother of an unarmed Wyoming man killed by a sheriff’s deputy after a traffic stop has filed a lawsuit alleging excessive use of force and failures in hiring and training the deputy.Debra Hinkel filed suit...
Sep 3 2020 // Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) said on Thursday a class action lawsuit had been filed over commissions paid to its former subsidiary and advice given by it on financial products including insurance.The lawsuit was...
Sep 2 2020 // More than four months after Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt sought to hold China and the Chinese Communist Party accountable for the COVID-19 pandemic, the lawsuit remains stalled in federal court.Neither the...
Sep 2 2020 // Family members of two of the deceased Odessa, Texas, mass shooting victims are suing the person who supplied the AR-style firearm to the mass shooter and the gun parts manufacturer for over $1 million in damages.The...
Sep 2 2020 // Seattle scoffed at the $650 million Bayer AG agreed to pay to settle class-action claims by about 2,500 cities, counties and ports over pollution from polychlorinated biphenyl, or PCB, saying it plans to opt out of the...
Sep 2 2020 // A three-year-long U.S. court battle over a cryptocurrency fundraiser, one of the largest initial coin offerings ever, has ended with a Swiss foundation paying $25 million to participants who lost money and their...
Sep 2 2020 // A former student from Aloha High School is suing the Beaverton School District after a teacher was convicted of sending her sexually explicit photos and videos of himself.The suit, which asks for more than $2 million in...
Sep 2 2020 // A national subprime auto lender made unfair and deceptive loans to thousands of Massachusetts residents, provided investors with false or misleading information regarding auto securities, and engaged in unfair debt...
Sep 2 2020 // Municipalities, their insurers and risk pools should be heeding the current public re-examination of police and prosecutorial actions taking place across the country, according to an insurance policyholder attorney who...
Sep 2 2020 // McDonald’s Corp. is the subject of a lawsuit by more than 50 Black former franchisees in the U.S. who say they were driven out of business after being pushed by the company to set up shop in crime-ridden areas and...
Sep 1 2020 // A northern Indiana woman has filed a lawsuit against the distributor of a recalled hand sanitizer over the presence of toxic methanol, alleging her children had severe side effects.The lawsuit, filed earlier this month in...