All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 15 2019 // As the nation’s most far-reaching data privacy law, California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), is set to begin Jan. 1, 2020, businesses and their insurers are preparing for a new era in cyber liability.Anxiety is on the...
Jul 12 2019 // Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo has vetoed a bill that would have allowed individuals to sue auto insurers for triple damages if their vehicle is totaled.The Democratic governor says the bill, which is supported by the...
Jul 12 2019 // London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s decision to charge Uber Technologies Inc. drivers to operate in the city center amounts to racial discrimination and puts some out of business, lawyers for the drivers said Wednesday in...
Jul 12 2019 // Brenda Lundeen went in for routine surgery to relieve heavy periods.What the Overland Park mom and grade schoolteacher got was a nightmare, as a medical mistake caused 194-degree water to pour through a hole in her uterus...
Jul 12 2019 // Harvard University is committing more capital to a strategy that backs plaintiffs in commercial disputes, delivering robust uncorrelated returns.The strategy is run by IMF Bentham Ltd., a publicly traded company which last...
Jul 12 2019 // A Tennessee family can press its lawsuit against online retailer Amazon over a hoverboard fire that destroyed their home, an appeals court has ruled, saying the company was aware of complaints about the devices catching...
Jul 11 2019 // A group of Rochester, Minnesota-area construction workers are pursuing a wage theft claim, testing a new state law that aims to clamp down on companies that don’t pay for labor.Minnesota Department of Labor and...
Jul 11 2019 // Brooke Melton died on her 29th birthday.Her Chevy randomly shut off in the middle of the highway a little before 8 p.m., and she crashed into a creek in Atlanta. A couple hours later, her parents were notified by the...
Jul 11 2019 // A federal appeals court has ruled that Amazon can be sued over a defective product sold by one of its third-party vendors.A Pennsylvania woman sued after a retractable dog leash she bought online snapped and hit her four...
Jul 11 2019 // Johnson & Johnson deserves a new trial after a jury ordered the world’s largest maker of health-care products to pay $417 million to a woman who blamed the company’s iconic Baby Powder for causing her...
Jul 11 2019 // A federal lawsuit says Mississippi is violating free-speech rights by banning makers of plant-based foods from using terms such as “meatless meatballs” and “vegan bacon.”The lawsuit against...
Jul 10 2019 // The family of a teenager killed during a 2018 gas explosion that injured a dozen others and destroyed scores of homes in three Boston suburbs settled its lawsuit against Columbia Gas of Massachusetts on Tuesday.Leonel...
Jul 9 2019 // A federal judge will allow a waitress who claims she was fired because of her pregnancy to join a lawsuit against a Bismarck restaurant. The judge decided Erica Davidson is within her rights to intervene in the Equal...
Jul 8 2019 // The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York has sued more than two dozen insurance companies, seeking to compel them to cover claims filed by people who say they were abused by clerics.Church officials anticipate that...
Jul 8 2019 // Aleksandr Kogan, the data scientist at the center of Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, said he is dropping a defamation lawsuit against the social network rather than engage in an expensive, drawn-out...
Jul 8 2019 // The parents of one of the 58 people slain in a 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting sued the makers and sellers of the assault-style rifles used in the attack, saying they knew the weapons could be jury-rigged to work similarly to...
Jul 7 2019 // JULY 3, 2019 — Boeing Co. is offering $100 million to support the families of victims and others affected by two crashes of its 737 Max jetliner, which killed 346 people and have led to scores of lawsuits.The money will...
Jul 3 2019 // A lawsuit says a former West Virginia University student has permanent brain damage because his fraternity brothers didn’t help him after he fell down the stairs at a party, instead ridiculing his unconscious body...
Jul 2 2019 // A hospital in Michigan will pay more than $74,000 to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by federal officials.Memorial Healthcare, which operates a hospital in Owosso, Mich., will pay $74,418 and furnish other...
Jul 2 2019 // Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. isn’t poised to win a quick escape from a class-action lawsuit accusing it of paying female employees less than their male counterparts.A California state court judge said in a...