All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 21 2018 // Kentucky’s attorney general on Monday filed a lawsuit against drug distributor Cardinal Health Inc , accusing it of contributing to the opioid epidemic by failing to halt or report suspiciously large or frequent...
Feb 20 2018 // General Electric Co. was sued on Friday by a shareholder who accused the conglomerate of concealing mounting insurance liabilities and a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission probe, saying it cost shareholders tens of...
Feb 20 2018 // Litigation from the abuse of assignment of benefits by third parties represented more than half of all Florida insurance litigation in 2017, and without a legislative fix those fueling the abuse will continue to get rich...
Feb 19 2018 // The wife of a conductor killed in the crash of an Amtrak train with a parked freight train in South Carolina earlier this month has filed suit against Amtrak and the other rail company, saying they were to blame for the...
Feb 19 2018 // The New Mexico Court of Appeals has upheld the ruling in a $165 million lawsuit against FedEx filed after a deadly accident involving a contracted FedEx truck.The 2011 crash west of Las Cruces killed three people including...
Feb 19 2018 // A man is suing a popular tavern near the University of Oregon, claiming a freak injury at the bar has left him unable to pursue “a host of attractive, lucrative careers” in music and medicine. Winston Martin...
Feb 16 2018 // A blood disorder led to the unlawful firing of three laborers at a Texas-based petro-chemical contractor, federal officials say.the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has charged in a lawsuit that...
Feb 15 2018 // A federal lawsuit alleges a Prairie View A&M University coach helped a male student accused of sexual assault flee Texas to avoid arrest.An unidentified female athlete filed the lawsuit in Houston. It accuses the...
Feb 15 2018 // The family of Bill Paxton has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a Los Angeles hospital and the surgeon who performed the actor’s heart surgery shortly before he died.The suit filed against Cedars-Sinai Medical...
Feb 15 2018 // As climate-change lawsuits against the oil industry mount, Exxon Mobil Corp. is taking a bare-knuckle approach rarely seen in legal disputes: It’s going after the lawyers who are suing it.The company has targeted at...
Feb 15 2018 // A white West Virginia police officer who was fired after he refused to shoot a black man who had a gun has settled a lawsuit for $175,000.The American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia announced the settlement with...
Feb 14 2018 // Utah lawmakers want the state to set aside $2 million to sue California over rules that make coal-fired power more expensive.The proposal from Republican Rep. Mike Noel passed through a subcommittee this week with only one...
Feb 13 2018 // PT Bank Danamon Indonesia, the nation’s fifth-largest lender by market value, is fielding interest from foreign suitors seeking a stake in its insurance subsidiary, people familiar with the matter said.Jakarta-based...
Feb 13 2018 // A North Carolina appeals court should keep alive a five-year-old lawsuit because it increases the pressure on Duke Energy Corp. to clean up groundwater contaminated by its coal ash pits, environmental lawyers argued...
Feb 12 2018 // The Cherokee Nation has refiled a lawsuit against opioid distributors in state court after a federal judge ruled that tribe’s court system had no jurisdiction over the companies. Lawyers filed the suit in Sequoyah...
Feb 12 2018 // The New Mexico Court of Appeals has upheld the ruling in a $165 million lawsuit against FedEx filed after a deadly accident involving a contracted FedEx truck.Las Cruces Sun-News reports the 2011 crash west of Las Cruces...
Feb 12 2018 // The wife of a conductor killed in the crash of an Amtrak train with a parked freight train in South Carolina earlier this month filed suit Thursday against Amtrak and the other rail company, saying they were to blame for...
Feb 9 2018 // DuPont Co. and its spinoff Chemours Co. have been sued by Ohio for dumping a chemical used in Teflon, an action the state said went on for 60 years even though the company knew it was toxic to humans.Ohio’s Attorney...
Feb 9 2018 // An international staffing company violated federal law when it allowed a manager at a Kansas City, Kan., worksite to repeatedly sexually harass female workers on a manufacturing line, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
Feb 8 2018 // State transportation officials plan to remove highway guardrail end caps manufactured by a Nebraska company that have been the subject of lawsuits across the country alleging safety defects.The Nebraska Department of...