All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 29 2017 // A federal judge is considering whether an airline company should pay damages to a Connecticut woman injured in a plane crash in Guyana, South America, in 2011. Judge Michael Shea in Hartford, Conn., presided over a...
Dec 29 2017 // QBE Insurance Group Ltd. has agreed to pay A$132.5 million (US$103.2 million) to settle a shareholder class action in Australia.The class action was commenced by Money Max Interest Pty Ltd on Sept. 9, 2015 in the Federal...
Dec 29 2017 // Among the most read news stories in Insurance Journal’s South Central region during 2017 concerned Hurricane Harvey and Texas hailstorm (aka natural catastrophe insurance claims) legislation.The insurance industry in...
Dec 29 2017 // Trade secrets and Hippos, lawsuits and tragedies.The news for 2017 didn’t seem to be dominated by a single trend or sole event, but in an ever-fractured media world that must try and cater to short attention spans...
Dec 29 2017 // An Oklahoma school and its board of directors are being sued on behalf of 15 girls who say they were molested by a teacher’s aide.The federal lawsuit filed last week in Oklahoma City seeks unspecified damages from...
Dec 28 2017 // The Oklahoma Supreme Court has overturned a lower court ruling that hundreds of restaurants in the state overcharged customers for mixed drinks.Lawsuits filed in 2011 by Tom Erbar and John Truel alleged restaurants...
Dec 28 2017 // A lawsuit by a woman claiming she was deceived about the amount of sugar in an exercise supplement called Sport Beans tops the list of what a top U.S. business lobby sees as the “most ridiculous” lawsuits of...
Dec 28 2017 // Florida doctors are rarely punished by state regulators even after they are sued for malpractice according to a newspaper report.The South Florida Sun Sentinel reported last month that the Florida Department of Health...
Dec 27 2017 // Representatives of sex abuse victims and their survivors are suing a bankrupt Roman Catholic diocese in Montana in an effort to ensure more than $70 million in assets are available for those abused by church officials.The...
Dec 27 2017 // A U.S. judge on Friday overturned a $150 million verdict against AbbVie Inc. that was the first to result from lawsuits claiming that the company fraudulently misrepresented the risks of its testosterone replacement drug...
Dec 27 2017 // A subsidiary of European steel giant ArcelorMittal has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle a lawsuit over allegations that its western Pennsylvania coke plant had violated emissions requirements over soot and other...
Dec 22 2017 // California’s top court has opened the door for consumers to sue Novartis AG and other makers of brand-name pharmaceutical products over injuries blamed on generic versions of the drugs manufactured by other...
Dec 22 2017 // Two insurance companies filed a lawsuit against the Kodiak Electric Association in Alaska claiming it was responsible for a fire that caused damage to clients’ property.Lexington Insurance Co. and Alaska Municipal...
Dec 21 2017 // A former seaman has sued a fisherman who starred in Discovery Channel’s “Deadliest Catch: Dungeon Cove” show, alleging the man was negligent and caused severe injury.The Oregonian/OregonLive reported...
Dec 19 2017 // Three offshore oil workers filed a lawsuit against units of Royal Dutch Shell and Enbridge, seeking $1 million in damages for injuries they allegedly received during a Nov. 8 fire on a U.S. Gulf of Mexico production...
Dec 18 2017 // A long-running lawsuit between the Trump administration, House Republicans and Democratic attorneys general over billions of dollars of Obamacare subsidies has been settled, according to an agreement filed in federal court...
Dec 18 2017 // The Supreme Court of the State of New York has ruled that American Home Assurance Co. must defend contractors and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey against asbestos claims from construction workers who became...
Dec 18 2017 // A former Home Depot assistant supervisor in Idaho has filed a lawsuit against the company alleging sex and pregnancy discrimination.The lawsuit alleges the company violated federal law by refusing to allow the woman breaks...
Dec 15 2017 // A settlement has been reached in a federal lawsuit over $750,000 in unpaid utility bills at a shuttered Tennessee glass plant.The Kingsport Times News reports insurer North American Specialty sued Heritage Glass and its...
Dec 14 2017 // The Navajo Nation announced that it’s suing Wells Fargo for allegedly engaging in predatory and unlawful banking practices that targeted and harmed tribal members.In a statement, Navajo Nation President Russell...