All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 16 2019 // OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP filed for bankruptcy protection Sunday night, succumbing to pressure from more than 2,600 lawsuits alleging the company helped fuel the deadly U.S. opioid epidemic.Purdue’s board met...
Sep 16 2019 // U.S. Senators John Kennedy (R-La.) and Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) have introduced legislation to allow active duty service members to sue the military for medical malpractice and negligence.A Supreme Court decision in 1950...
Sep 16 2019 // The owners of the dive boat where 34 people perished in a fire off Southern California filed a lawsuit in early September to head off potentially costly litigation, a move condemned by some observers as disrespectful to...
Sep 16 2019 // An Oregon teen who lost his leg in a car wreck is suing the driver who crashed into him — along with the Salem brewery accused of over-serving the driver- for $3.5 million.James Holland Jr., along with his parents,...
Sep 13 2019 // It didn’t take long for attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan to deploy a new weapon in her six-year war with Uber Technologies Inc. over driver pay.Within hours of Uber thumbing its nose at a pending California labor law...
Sep 13 2019 // A lawsuit over profits between the producers and stars of the show “Bones” and 21st Century Fox has been settled.The two sides in the long-running lawsuit over the hit Fox TV show filed documents saying the...
Sep 13 2019 // A driver for Uber has sued the company for misclassifying its drivers as independent contractors, hours after California legislators voted to help thousands of those workers become, and enjoy the benefits of being,...
Sep 13 2019 // Virginia has joined a growing number of states suing members of the family that owns Purdue Pharma for their alleged role in the nation’s opioid crisis.Attorney General Mark Herring announced Wednesday that the state...
Sep 13 2019 // Mississippi is considering new rules that let companies continue to use food-labeling terms such as “veggie burger” and “vegan bacon,” as long as the terms are prominently displayed so consumers...
Sep 13 2019 // The commercial general liability line will be the next property/casualty line to harden, the chief executive of W.R. Berkley Corp. predicted at an industry conference.Speaking at the Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Insurance...
Sep 12 2019 // By the time Kelly Pfaff got home from driving her son to school that morning, it was too late.Her husband, John, was supposed to be taking their 4-year-old daughter to school. But the girl and the nanny were still at the...
Sep 11 2019 // A Dallas-based electric utility company will pay $50,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit, federal officials said.A consent decree in the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
Sep 11 2019 // Facebook Inc. users suing over the social network’s worst-ever privacy scandal gained leverage to pry into its internal records to back up their claims that it failed to safeguard their personal data, exposing the...
Sep 11 2019 // A conservative television network has sued MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow for more than $10 million for calling it “paid Russian propaganda.”One America News filed the federal defamation suit in San Diego. The...
Sep 11 2019 // Delaware’s attorney general is suing members of the family that controls OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, accusing them of consumer fraud, negligence and creating a public nuisance.Monday’s court filing follows...
Sep 10 2019 // A federal lawsuit filed Sept. 6 accuses the University of Kansas Medical Center of discharging an employee who reported age discrimination practices by a department head.The lawsuit against the Kansas City, Kansas-based...
Sep 10 2019 // A judge has ruled that a racketeering lawsuit brought by a vineyard against a neighboring marijuana operation can go forward despite attempts to have it dismissed – a ruling that could increase the odds for vineyards and...
Sep 10 2019 // A New Orleans Saints fan’s lawsuit against the NFL and game officials over the failure to call a crucial penalty against the Los Angeles Rams in a January playoff game was dismissed Sept. 6 by the Louisiana Supreme...
Sep 10 2019 // A federal judge on Monday ordered Facebook Inc. to face most of a nationwide lawsuit seeking damages for letting third parties such as Cambridge Analytica access users’ private data, calling the social media...
Sep 9 2019 // One of the largest makers of generic opioids has settled a lawsuit with two Ohio counties, removing the company from the first federal trial over the toll of the opioid crisis.United Kingdom-based Mallinckrodt announced...