All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 23 2017 // A woman who reported that she’d been sexually assaulted filed a lawsuit on Aug. 21 against Baylor University, alleging questions she faced from the university shifted blame away from her attacker toward her.The...
Aug 23 2017 // One of the biggest commercial threats to Taser International’s signature weapon could come from a lawsuit the company won.Across the United States, wrongful death lawsuits involving Tasers have created a body of case...
Aug 23 2017 // A law firm threatened on Wednesday to file a class action suit against Commonwealth Bank of Australia for allegedly failing to disclose that it was facing money-laundering charges, in the latest headache for...
Aug 23 2017 // Officials in Kentucky’s largest city have filed suit in federal court against opioid distributors, accusing them of contributing to the drug epidemic in the state. Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer announced the lawsuit...
Aug 22 2017 // A Los Angeles jury has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay a record $417 million to a hospitalized woman who claimed in a lawsuit that the talc in the company’s iconic baby powder causes ovarian cancer when applied...
Aug 22 2017 // “Old, fat and ugly” is what Yevgeniya Magurina jokingly calls a group of flight attendants for Russia’s flagship airline Aeroflot who she claims have been sidelined in an apparent drive to make the cabin...
Aug 22 2017 // In a first-of-its-kind review of court documents, police reports, other public records and news accounts, Reuters compiled the most comprehensive public accounting to date of deaths and litigation that followed police use...
Aug 21 2017 // Two Omaha contractors are expanding a legal strategy they say forces insurance companies to pay for storm damage, but industry officials say the practice leads to exaggerated claims and may drive away insurers.Home repair...
Aug 21 2017 // A woman who was critically injured when an air cannon exploded during a Delaware pumpkin-launching competition has filed a federal lawsuit against event organizers and participants, state officials and Discovery...
Aug 21 2017 // Walt Disney Co. paid $177 million, in addition to insurance recoveries, to settle the closely watched “pink slime” defamation case against its ABC network by South Dakota-based Beef Products Inc. (BPI), a...
Aug 18 2017 // A former Esurance call center worker in South Dakota is suing the insurance company alleging discrimination and harassment because he’s Jewish.The Argus Leader reports that Brandon Marshall filed the federal lawsuit...
Aug 18 2017 // A wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a man who died in an ambulance helicopter crash has been thrown out by a judge who said the case must go through California’s workers’ compensation death benefits...
Aug 18 2017 // A lawsuit claims a suburban Philadelphia woman got an extra topping on her Chick-fil-A sandwich: a dead rodent.Ellen Manfalouti sued in Bucks County Court over the tiny rodent she claims was baked into the bottom bun of...
Aug 18 2017 // A new lawsuit accuses the U.S. government of being too slow to implement rules requiring that rear seat vehicle passengers be warned when they fail to buckle their seat belts.In a complaint filed on Wednesday, two...
Aug 18 2017 // A West Virginia city’s lawsuit against a drug company has led to a dispute over which is at fault in the opioid epidemic.The Charleston Gazette-Mail reported last week that one of the nation’s largest drug...
Aug 17 2017 // The first woman to sue Waco, Texas-based Baylor University over allegations the nation’s largest Baptist school ignored or mishandled rape allegations has settled her case, her attorney said.Jasmin Hernandez sued...
Aug 17 2017 // A U.S. appeals court on Thursday ruled in favor of Uber Technologies Inc. in a closely watched lawsuit over whether passengers gave up their right to sue the ride-sharing company when they registered for its service.The...
Aug 17 2017 // A federal appeals court on Tuesday said the New York Times Co. must face a defamation lawsuit by a Louisiana economics professor who said it quoted him out of context by saying he described slavery as “not so...
Aug 17 2017 // Ex-Uber Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick said the lawsuit brought by venture-capital firm Benchmark seeking his ouster from the company’s board should be heard in private arbitration.In a...
Aug 17 2017 // Big Pharma is having a Big Tobacco moment as litigation over opioids attract star lawyers and a growing list of states and local governments seeking their own multibillion-dollar payout to deal with costs of a burgeoning...