All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 8 2019 // Paula Lawlor was sifting through piles of internal General Motors Co. documents in a hotel room outside of Los Angeles when she hit pay dirt: Company records showing that GM knew for years that stronger roofs on its...
Nov 7 2019 // Family Dollar Stores of Michigan LLC will pay $25,000 and provide other relief to settle a federal disability-discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).The EEOC’s lawsuit...
Nov 6 2019 // Walmart Inc. has settled its lawsuit against Tesla Inc. over fires at more than a half-dozen of the retail giant’s stores.Walmart sued the electric-car maker and solar company in New York State Supreme Court in...
Nov 5 2019 // A growing number of cities and states want to turn climate change lawsuits against oil companies into the next tobacco or opioid litigation. In principle, that seems like a truly terrible idea. Such lawsuits will likely do...
Nov 5 2019 // The family of a 67-year-old woman who allegedly died after she wandered out of her hospital room and into the basement of Providence Portland Medical Center in Oregon has filed a $1.075 million lawsuit.The...
Nov 4 2019 // Five Montana hospitals are settling a lawsuit that claimed they made a deal with an insurer to inflate employee health coverage prices in return for $26 million.The hospitals, which deny wrongdoing, agreed to pay $6.9...
Nov 4 2019 // A federal lawsuit has accused top Delaware insurance department officials of workplace sexual and racial harassment.The Delaware News Journal reports an insurance department employee announced the suit Wednesday accusing...
Nov 4 2019 // An Alabama appellate court has cleared the way for a lawsuit that alleges outrageous and fraudulent conduct by American International Group and Coventry against a worker who was injured in an explosion and sought...
Nov 4 2019 // Operating commercial vehicles, whether as a single driver or the owner of a fleet, carries with it significant liability. And, risks are only increasing. The commercial automobile insurance line has been a loss leader...
Nov 4 2019 // A Washington state county has filed a lawsuit against e-cigarette maker JUUL after a dozen confirmed cases of vaping-related lung illness in the state.King County’s claim accuses JUUL and its affiliates of fraud,...
Nov 1 2019 // A Missouri appeals court has ruled a Columbia businessman is liable for a $2.75 million civil judgment awarded to a woman whose home was destroyed in an alleged arson. The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District...
Nov 1 2019 // The former operators of a spa and resort in San Antonio, Texas, to pay $2,625,000 to settle a national origin discrimination lawsuit brought by a federal agency.The lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
Nov 1 2019 // Facebook Inc. was sued on Thursday in a proposed class action accusing it of discriminating against older and female users by withholding advertising for financial services such as bank accounts, insurance, investments and...
Nov 1 2019 // South Dakota-based Sanford Health, one of the nation’s largest health systems, has agreed to pay more than $20 million to resolve kickback allegations stemming from a whistleblower lawsuit filed by two Sanford...
Nov 1 2019 // The chairman of a St. Louis County police board has resigned and another board member said she is being replaced after a jury found that a sergeant was discriminated against because he’s gay and recommended that he...
Oct 31 2019 // A family alleges in a lawsuit that a Colorado fertility doctor used his own sperm instead of that of an anonymous donor to impregnate a woman without her consent.KUSA-TV reported that the lawsuit filed this week contends...
Oct 30 2019 // A retired FBI agent described a horrific raid of now-closed body donation facility, recalling a table stacked with severed human legs, heads stuffed in a cooler, and torsos without heads and limbs.Mark Cwynar testified on...
Oct 29 2019 // Maryland’s attorney general on Wednesday sued a real estate company once run by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law over allegedly illegal and harmful rental practices, including the kind of rodent infestations...
Oct 28 2019 // A judge has denied actor Brad Pitt’s request to be taken off a lawsuit that says his Make it Right Foundation built shoddy homes in the New Orleans area that was hit hardest by Hurricane Katrina.The Times-Picayune/...
Oct 28 2019 // Colleges are becoming a battleground in the conflict between federal and state marijuana laws as students who use medical pot challenge decades-old campus drug policies.In states where medical marijuana is legal, students...