All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 9 2020 // Some South Carolina residents deliberately caused hit-and-run accidents while in Uber rides as part of an insurance scam, a car insurance company says in a lawsuit.The lawsuit from James River Insurance says 52 people were...
Mar 9 2020 // New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas filed a lawsuit against Google LLC alleging the tech giant is illegally collecting personal information from New Mexico school children under 13 in violation of the Federal...
Mar 9 2020 // The families of a skier and snowboarder who died on the same day at a central Oregon ski area jointly filed a wrongful death lawsuit seeking $30 million.The lawsuit filed in late February in Deschutes County Circuit Court...
Mar 6 2020 // Three former athletes at the University of Michigan have filed lawsuits against the school, alleging that a late doctor sexually assaulted them while the men were members of the football and hockey teams in the 1980s.The...
Mar 5 2020 // Communities in West Virginia say they would get $1.25 billion from the drug industry in a proposed settlement that would end most of the litigation stemming from the opioid crisis in the state.The deal would be the first...
Mar 5 2020 // A woman is suing a family entertainment center saying her hair got caught in a machine at the Southeast Portland center for 20 minutes.Ashreana Scott is suing CEC Entertainment, also known as Chuck E. Cheese family fun...
Mar 5 2020 // A former tenant at an RV park south of Warrenton, Ore., has filed a lawsuit against the owner alleging negligence over living conditions in a trailer.Sandra Holloway moved into a “dry trailer” at Sunset Lake...
Mar 4 2020 // The coronavirus has upended markets, disrupted supply chains and forced quarantines. It’s all fertile ground for lawsuits.Hospitals, restaurants, day care centers, nursing homes and hotels may face claims that they...
Mar 4 2020 // A Delaware judge is holding a hearing in a lawsuit over the secret filming of women and girls in a restaurant bathroom.Tuesday’s hearing involves a lawsuit filed in 2018 by the mother of two young girls. The...
Mar 3 2020 // An industrial painting company in Beaumont, Texas, has settled a federal lawsuit that alleged it unlawfully fired a worker because of his medically prescribed methadone.Steel Painters LLC, an industrial sandblasting and...
Mar 2 2020 // A Georgia Senate bill backed by Republicans aims to take on the tall task of limiting lawsuits in state courts, citing high legal costs faced by businesses.Senate Bill 415, sponsored by state Sen. Steve Gooch of Dahlonega,...
Mar 2 2020 // The smell of marijuana has driven some residents of the Southern California city of Carpinteria to sue local growers.The lawsuit filed last week contends the growers should seal their greenhouses and use...
Mar 2 2020 // The families of a skier and snowboarder who died on the same day at a central Oregon ski area jointly filed a wrongful death lawsuit seeking $30 million.The lawsuit filed Thursday in Deschutes County Circuit Court contends...
Feb 28 2020 // The Tennessee Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal from pharmaceutical companies asking to be dismissed as defendants in an opioid lawsuit.The suit was filed in Campbell County in 2017 by six Tennessee district...
Feb 28 2020 // M&M Limousine Service in Des Plaines, Ill., will pay a deaf job applicant $30,000 to settle a federal disability discrimination lawsuit.The lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)...
Feb 27 2020 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to back stricter deadlines for workers to sue retirement plans over alleged mismanagement, ruling Intel Corp. cannot avoid a suit accusing it of unlawfully making high-risk...
Feb 26 2020 // Oklahoma is dismissing its federal lawsuit against three of the nation’s largest opioid distributors and will refile new lawsuits in state court against each company individual, state Attorney General Mike Hunter...
Feb 26 2020 // A student who has celiac disease says in a lawsuit that a Maryland state university deliberately served her food containing gluten.The lawsuit from Allegany County native Hannah Smith said the University of Maryland,...
Feb 25 2020 // Kobe Bryant’s widow sued the owner and operator of the helicopter that crashed in fog and killed the former Los Angeles Lakers star and their 13-year-old daughter last month as she publicly mourned their deaths...
Feb 25 2020 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued TPC Group over environmental violations associated with the Nov. 27 explosion at the company’s Port Neches chemical plant, a blast that prompted widespread mandatory...