All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 30 2019 // A federal judge in Manhattan on Thursday partially dismissed a lawsuit by investors in General Electric Co. that accused the company of concealing $24 billion in insurance liabilities and using fraudulent accounting to...
Aug 29 2019 // The wife of a deceased man whose body was used for emergency intubation training has filed a lawsuit against an Oregon city.The Bellingham Herald reported that Jai Ginn filed a federal lawsuit Aug. 1 against the city of...
Aug 29 2019 // A lawsuit filed by Vermont residents seeking damages for chemical contamination in groundwater in their Bennington neighborhood can proceed as a class action, a federal judge has ruled.The ruling by U.S. District Judge...
Aug 29 2019 // One evening last year, David Burek noticed charred wood and a burning smell in his attic, near his young sons’ bedroom. He climbed a ladder and saw a melted connector wire from the solar panels installed on the roof...
Aug 28 2019 // The Ohio hospital that employed a doctor charged with 25 counts of murder for giving often fatal doses of opioid painkillers to dozens of sick patients said on Aug. 27 it has settled two wrongful death lawsuits for a total...
Aug 28 2019 // OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP and its owners, the Sackler family, are in discussion to settle more than 2,000 opioid lawsuits against the company for $10 billion to $12 billion, two people familiar with the matter said...
Aug 28 2019 // State biometrics laws, a new ransomware threat and the targeting of financial institutions are among the recent trends in cyber risks, according to insurer Chubb in a new report.The insurer cites a recent surge in lawsuits...
Aug 28 2019 // The operators of a Lawton, Okla., Burger King restaurant have agreed to pay $30,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by federal officials.In a lawsuit filed in July 2018, the...
Aug 28 2019 // In 1977, after an electrical fire destroyed the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky, killing 165 people, a plaintiffs’ lawyer named Stanley Chesley came up with a novel way to recover money for the...
Aug 27 2019 // The mother of a man killed in a shooting at a Tennessee Waffle House is now suing the medical center that treated him. The Tennessean reports the lawsuit filed last week by Shaundelle Brooks says two Vanderbilt University...
Aug 27 2019 // West Virginia’s top prosecutor filed suits Friday against the major opioid makers Johnson & Johnson and Teva Pharmaceuticals USA for misrepresenting the risks of their painkilling drugs.The separate suits filed...
Aug 27 2019 // While some Johnson & Johnson investors were relieved that the company’s $572 million penalty for fueling Oklahoma’s opioid epidemic wasn’t as high as feared, lawyers for other U.S. states, cities and...
Aug 26 2019 // Amazon.com Inc.’s Audible was sued by some of the top U.S. publishers for copyright infringement on Friday, aiming to block a planned rollout of a feature called ‘Audible Captions’ that shows the text on...
Aug 26 2019 // A South Carolina man is suing Walmart, saying a gas can that exploded and set him on fire was defective and should never have been sold to him at a Walmart store in Barnwell.In a federal lawsuit filed this month, Jamie...
Aug 23 2019 // An Illinois construction company that waited six years to inform its excess insurer that it had been sued cannot expect coverage from that carrier, and it can’t go after the insurance brokerage that sold it the...
Aug 22 2019 // Nearly three dozen people have sued the operator of a suburban Chicago medical equipment cleaning plant they claim emits fumes that have adversely affected their health, lawyers for the plaintiffs announced.The 32 lawsuits...
Aug 22 2019 // A proposed settlement would give St. Louis Rams fans a 25% refund on years of tickets and merchandise they bought before the team announced it was moving to Los Angeles.If approved, the settlement would end a class-action...
Aug 22 2019 // Ryan Specialty Group LLC (RSG) has reached a definitive agreement to acquire the assets and operations of The Suitelife, a program manager specializing in boutique hotels, premier and full service hotels, hotel management...
Aug 21 2019 // A class-action lawsuit claims that an Oregon creamery association falsely advertises the source of its milk, a report said.The lawsuit was filed by the Animal Legal Defense Fund against the Tillamook County Creamery...
Aug 21 2019 // Endo International Plc agreed to an $11 million settlement to avoid going to trial in the first federal court cases targeting opioid makers and distributors over the public-health crisis caused by the painkillers.Endo said...