All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 27 2018 // The families of two pilots who died in a 2016 helicopter crash in western Arizona have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the California-based manufacturer of the aircraft.The suit filed last Friday in Los Angeles...
Jun 27 2018 // The billionaire George Soros has found a new way to make money from personal-injury lawsuits.Soros Fund Management is pushing into a branch of litigation finance that few hedge funds have entered. His family office is...
Jun 26 2018 // Anchor Staffing Inc., a Chicago-based staffing agency, will pay $30,000 to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).The EEOC’s lawsuit...
Jun 26 2018 // A Washington county agreed to pay $350,000 to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by two women who accused a male supervisor at the human services department of unwanted hugging, kissing and comments.The Daily...
Jun 26 2018 // BP Plc, Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp. escaped blame for the public costs of global warming when a U.S. judge ruled that lawsuits by cities against oil companies aren’t the answer to climate change.“The...
Jun 26 2018 // The clock is ticking: The National Flood Insurance Program expires on July 31, 2018; so what happens next? It is well documented that the NFIP is broken and has been in disarray for a long time. The NFIP’s primary...
Jun 25 2018 // Several African Americans are suing big-box stores and restaurants in Oregon, claiming employees at those places wrongly accused them of stealing because they were “shopping while black.”A Portland law firm has...
Jun 22 2018 // Eight passengers have sued Southwest Airlines Co. over a catastrophic engine blowout in April that killed a passenger and injured several others.The plaintiffs, eight passengers from Flight 1380 on April 17 and one...
Jun 21 2018 // The artist behind Chicago’s famous bean-shaped sculpture has filed a federal lawsuit accusing the National Rifle Association of copyright infringement by using an image of his work in a video advertisement last...
Jun 21 2018 // The University of Texas has agreed to settle a race and sexual discrimination lawsuit filed by former women’s track coach Bev Kearney.Kearney attorney Jody Mask on Wednesday told The Associated Press that the case...
Jun 21 2018 // Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp. will wait until December to determine its 2019 insurance rates and whether it will approve a proposed 7.9 percent statewide increase for homeowners policies.The decision to...
Jun 20 2018 // The University of Washington will pay $122,500 to settle a lawsuit filed after the college billed a Republican club security fees for a rally.The UW College Republicans sued, saying the bill for $17,000 to cover security...
Jun 20 2018 // The wife of a Maryland man who died during a rafting trip down the Roaring Fork River filed a lawsuit accusing a Colorado rafting company of negligence and fraud. The Aspen Times reports Allison Parker filed a lawsuit...
Jun 20 2018 // Boston is retaining a law firm to sue pharmaceutical companies for damages from the deadly opioid epidemic.Democratic Mayor Marty Walsh announced Tuesday he’s tapped Motley Rice and expects the South Carolina law...
Jun 20 2018 // Purdue Pharma LP, Johnson & Johnson and other opioid makers faced one of the first extensive reviews of their legal defenses to claims they violated consumer-protection laws and created a public nuisance with the sale...
Jun 19 2018 // Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is asking that a jury decide whether his insurer must defend him against 14 lawsuits accusing him of sexually harassing and assaulting women over several decades.Weinstein contends...
Jun 19 2018 // A federal appeals court in New York says a lawsuit alleging the use of sound cannons by police constitutes excessive force can proceed toward trial.The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that it agreed with a lower...
Jun 19 2018 // Fujifilm Holdings Corp. sued Xerox Corp. on Monday for well over $1 billion, faulting the printer and copier company for succumbing to pressure from activist investors Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason in calling off a proposed...
Jun 19 2018 // Some homeowners are suing a North Carolina city to get dams that were compromised by Hurricane Matthew repaired.The Fayetteville Observer reported residents from four neighborhoods say the city should rebuild the dams even...
Jun 19 2018 // The Mississippi Highway Patrol is paying $500,000 in a lawsuit over a fatal wreck that happened when a state trooper was driving fast on a dark highway without his blue lights flashing.The crash happened about 1:30 a.m. on...