All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 4 2019 // A former Connecticut prison inmate has filed a lawsuit alleging she hasn’t been paid for her contribution to a new book by author Wally Lamb and accusing Lamb of harassing and intimidating her when she sought...
Jun 4 2019 // Facebook Inc. must defend itself in a District of Columbia lawsuit accusing the social network of failing to safeguard users’ personal data and allowing a U.K. political consulting firm to mine the information for...
Jun 3 2019 // An Oklahoma hospital has agreed to a $2.8 million settlement in a whistleblower lawsuit in which a former nurse alleged the hospital made false Medicaid claims.Oklahoma Heart Hospital admitted no wrongdoing in paying out...
Jun 3 2019 // A federal jury in Milwaukee on Friday awarded $2 million each to three men who sued three major paint and pigment companies which the men claimed were responsible for the lead poisoning they suffered as toddlers in their...
Jun 3 2019 // A young man and a teenage boy have filed a lawsuit accusing the staff at a Texas ranch for at-risk youth of not protecting them from sexual abuse by older residents, an advocate for child abuse victims says.In recent...
Jun 3 2019 // New Jersey is suing eight members of the family that founded opioid drug maker Purdue Pharma over the lethal toll of the drugs.The Sackler family wasn’t satisfied with “merely raking in” millions of...
Jun 3 2019 // A lawsuit has been filed against a retired University of Alaska Anchorage anthropology professor who is banned from campus over sexual misconduct allegations by multiple women.David Yesner is named in the federal lawsuit...
May 31 2019 // Los Angeles County sued Monsanto Co. on Thursday, seeking to force the unit of Germany’s Bayer AG to help pay for reducing PCB contamination in dozens of bodies of water.The most populous U.S. county, which has about...
May 31 2019 // New Hampshire has sued eight companies including 3M and the DuPont Co. for damage it says has been caused by a class of potentially toxic chemicals found in pizza boxes, fast-food wrappers and drinking water.The substances...
May 31 2019 // The family of a Maine roofer who died in a fall has filed a $2.5 million wrongful-death suit against his employer.The Portland Press Herald reports that Alan Loignon’s family says Saco-based contractor, 44-year-old...
May 30 2019 // Wisconsin’s Milwaukee County paid nearly $7 million to settle a lawsuit from the family of a man whose dehydration death in jail was described by his attorneys as torture.Attorneys for 38-year-old Terrill Thomas...
May 30 2019 // A Colorado man who survived a bus crash in New Mexico that killed three people including his wife last July has filed a lawsuit.Ramon Grajeda-Beltran and Olga Hernandez-Beltran of Rocky Ford were passengers on a commercial...
May 30 2019 // A Chicago fitness club will pay $45,000 and provide other relief to settle a federal sex harassment and retaliation lawsuit broughtThe U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) says an employee of Lakeshore Sport...
May 29 2019 // A former Nebraska City clerk who sued after he was essentially fired by the City Council in 2015 has agreed to a $325,000 settlement offered by the city. The Lincoln Journal Star reports that Arnold Ehlers’ lawsuit...
May 29 2019 // A recent ruling from the Minnesota Supreme Court saying doctors can be sued for malpractice even if they’re not directly treating a patient is causing angst in the state’s medical and legal communities.The high...
May 29 2019 // West Virginia’s Roman Catholic diocese failed to publicly disclose decade-old allegations of sexual abuse of a student involving a Catholic school teacher, the state’s attorney general said May 21.Attorney...
May 28 2019 // In the Bible, the ark survived an epic flood. Yet the owners of Kentucky’s Noah’s ark attraction are demanding their insurance company bail them out after heavy rains caused nearly $1 million in property...
May 28 2019 // A New York appeals court has dismissed a U.S. whistleblower’s $20 million libel suit against Swiss bank UBS, his former employer, concluding that statements the Zurich-based bank made about him were at least...
May 27 2019 // Determining who foots the bill for America’s growing opioid epidemic may depend on how well the state of Oklahoma deploys a high-risk legal strategy this week against Johnson & Johnson and Teva Pharmaceutical...
May 24 2019 // An aspiring concert pianist whose career was likely ended when she lost a finger and suffered other severe injuries when a Boston restaurant’s brick and concrete facade collapsed on her has sued.The Boston Globe...