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Family of Florida Woman Killed by Alligator Sues Housing Complex for Negligence

Jan 29 2024 // WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The family of a Florida woman killed by an alligator last year as she walked her dog in her backyard is suing the housing complex’s owner, alleging its employees fed the gator and...

Mississippi Businesses, Cities Sue to Protect Dolphins From Louisiana Spillway

Jan 26 2024 // JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Opening a spillway as a flood-control measure in 2019 sent polluted fresh water from the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico and killed bottlenose dolphins that live in saltwater, according to...

Fate of Most Remaining Zantac Lawsuits Weighed by Delaware Judge

Jan 26 2024 // GSK, Pfizer and other pharmaceutical companies are urging a judge in Delaware this week to find that evidence plaintiffs’ lawyers want to use in about 72,000 lawsuits claiming that the discontinued heartburn drug...

Google Settles AI-Related Chip Patent Lawsuit That Sought $1.67B

Jan 26 2024 // Google on Wednesday reached a settlement in a patent infringement lawsuit over chips that power the company’s artificial-intelligence technology, according to a filing in Massachusetts federal court.The settlement...

Mother of Disabled Girl Allegedly Raped Sues Pittsburgh School District, Starbucks

Jan 26 2024 // The mother of an intellectually disabled girl who was allegedly led from school grounds by three male students and sexually assaulted in a Starbucks bathroom and a nearby empty building filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing...

Fifth Circuit Upholds $502K Award for Louisiana Church in Hurricane Laura Damage Suit

Jan 25 2024 // The United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this month upheld a 2022 decision against Church Mutual Insurance Co. in favor of Sugartown United Pentecostal Church in Dry Creek, Louisiana, which sits about 50...

Witness Affidavit Not Needed Before ‘John Doe’ Auto Suit Filed – SC Supreme Court

Jan 25 2024 // A driver may file a “John Doe” civil action against an unknown driver, even without first obtaining an statement from a third-party witness. But an affidavit must be produced promptly upon request, the South...

Maryland Settles Lawsuit With Tri-Gas & Oil Over Fuel Leak at Storage Facility

Jan 25 2024 // Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced the settlement of a lawsuit against an Eastern Shore fuel storage facility, including a $600,000 penalty for pollution to groundwater and a nearby creek.The settlement...

Disney Asks for Delay in Board’s Lawsuit Due to ‘Distracted District’

Jan 25 2024 // ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Disney this week requested a second delay in a state court case involving its legal battle with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ appointees over who controls Walt Disney World’s governing district, as...

Brown, Yale, Columbia Among Latest to Settle Financial-Aid Lawsuit

Jan 25 2024 // Brown, Yale and Columbia universities have agreed to pay a combined $62 million to resolve a lawsuit that accused them and others of favoring wealthy applicants, pushing total settlements in the case to $118...

Lawsuit Alleges HIV-Positive Inmate in California Died After Being Denied Medication

Jan 25 2024 // A lawsuit filed by the family of a man who died after being held in a Northern California jail alleges he contracted a preventable viral infection there when its medical staff denied him critical HIV medication for two...

Rice University Allocates $33M to Settle Antitrust Lawsuit Over Financial Aid Scheme

Jan 24 2024 // Rice University has set aside $33.75 million to settle an antitrust lawsuit filed against 17 prestigious private universities across the country accused of illegally running a scheme that limited the amount of financial...

Michigan Hospital Agrees to Pay $50K to Settle Religious Discrimination Lawsuit

Jan 23 2024 // Trinity Health Grand Rapids, formerly known as Mercy Health St. Mary’s, a hospital and member of the Trinity Health-Michigan health system, agreed to pay $50,000 and provide other relief to settle a religious...

Massachusetts Hospital Faces Class Action Over Christmas Cyber Attack

Jan 23 2024 // A Massachusetts hospital that suffered a cyber attack in December has been hit with a class action lawsuit for its alleged failure to secure patients’ personal information.Anna Jaques Hospital in Newburyport...

US Appeals Court Revives Mexico’s $10B Lawsuit Against Gun Maker

Jan 23 2024 // A U.S. appeals court on Monday revived a $10 billion lawsuit by Mexico seeking to hold American gun manufacturers responsible for facilitating the trafficking of weapons to drug cartels across the U.S.-Mexico border.The...

Family of Texas Woman Killed in Propane Truck Collision Files $150 Million Lawsuit

Jan 23 2024 // The family of a Texas woman killed in a January collision with a propane truck has filed a $150 million lawsuit against the propane company and the driver of the vehicle, citing negligence and wrongful...

Florida Senate Committee Adopts Litigation Funding Rules; Expands Wrongful Death

Jan 23 2024 // Litigation financing could soon become more transparent and less influential in Florida, but a 34-year-old restriction on who can file medical malpractice wrongful death claims would be expanded under bills approved Monday...

Exxon Sues ESG Investors to Remove Climate Proposals on Ballot

Jan 22 2024 // Exxon Mobil Corp. filed a lawsuit against US and Dutch climate activist investors in an effort to remove what it describes as their “extreme agenda” from the ballot at its annual shareholder meetings.The Texas...

Family of Slain California College Student Sues for Wrongful Death Nearly 30 Years Later

Jan 22 2024 // The family of a California college student who vanished nearly three decades ago sued the school, alleging it caused Kristin Smart’s murder through negligence.Smart, then 19, disappeared from California Polytechnic...

Class Actions Filed Over Builders Mutual, Progressive’s Own Data Breaches

Jan 22 2024 // Progressive Casualty Insurance and North Carolina-based Builders Mutual Insurance Co. have been served with class-action lawsuits over data breaches on their own computer systems in 2022, cyber attacks that may have...