All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Aug 16 2017 // Three businesses owned by West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice and his family have agreed to settle for $551,420 a lawsuit that claimed they had not paid for $771,268 of cleanup work after the Greenbrier resort was hit by severe...
Aug 16 2017 // Records show that Dallas, Texas, has spent almost $11 million in the past five years settling more than 20 lawsuits against police, a huge increase compared to the previous five years. KDFW-TV reports the city spent less...
Aug 16 2017 // A U.S. judge overseeing the bankruptcy of Takata Corp.’s U.S. business on Wednesday halted lawsuits for 90 days against automakers brought by victims of its faulty air bag inflators. Takata requested a six-month stay...
Aug 16 2017 // South Carolina sued Purdue Pharma LP on Tuesday, becoming the latest state or local government to accuse the OxyContin maker of deceptive marketing practices that have contributed to a national opioid addiction...
Aug 14 2017 // The parents of an 8-year-old Ohio boy who hanged himself from his bunk bed with a necktie want school officials held responsible, testing the issue of school liability in suicides blamed on bullying.The wrongful death...
Aug 14 2017 // Six current or former employees have filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against The Plaza Hotel.The bartenders, servers and hospitality coordinators say they were groped, catcalled and propositioned by managers and other...
Aug 11 2017 // The family of a teenager who died in a hayride crash has settled a lawsuit against the farm owner who operated the Halloween attraction in 2014, the family lawyer said Wednesday.Money from the settlement in the wrongful...
Aug 11 2017 // An attorney says a settlement has been reached in a lawsuit involving a West Virginia car dealership and a former employee. John Howard Motors Attorney Johnnie Brown told The Dominion Post that the car group and its owner...
Aug 10 2017 // Wisconsin environmental officials are over-regulating large livestock operations, imposing pollution requirements that are tougher than federal law and arbitrarily changing runoff standards without going through the...
Aug 10 2017 // The Trump administration is moving to further delay part of an Obama-era rule to require brokers who offer retirement advice to put their customers’ interests ahead of their own.The U.S. Department of Labor said in a...
Aug 10 2017 // Japanese auto supplier Takata Corp. filed for U.S. bankruptcy protection on Wednesday in an effort to pause lawsuits against the company over faulty air bag inflators – more than a month after its U.S. unit filed for...
Aug 9 2017 // A California woman who sued her plastic surgeon after photographs of her breasts surfaced on the internet has been awarded $18,000.The Fresno Bee reported the woman was awarded the money on Monday by a Fresno County...
Aug 9 2017 // New Hampshire sued OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP on Tuesday, joining several state and local governments in accusing the drugmaker of engaging in deceptive marketing practices that have helped fuel a national opioid...
Aug 9 2017 // The last time that we thought about Frank and Jimmy, Jimmy had just finished his work in Frank’s deli. You don’t remember Frank and Jimmy? You didn’t read those posts, you say? That’s no problem....
Aug 9 2017 // The family of a university student in South Carolina who died falling off a bridge during a pledge run has settled its lawsuit against Clemson University and the fraternity.Court records filed Thursday show Tucker...
Aug 7 2017 // An art instructor is suing Edgewood College in Wisconsin for terminating her tenure in violation of policy after she moved to Indianapolis. Agnieszka Ligendza filed the lawsuit in Dane County Circuit Court. She alleges the...
Aug 7 2017 // Saudi Arabia on Tuesday asked to be dropped from a Sept. 11 lawsuit victims’ families filed, saying no evidence links it to the deadly terrorist act.Lawyers for Saudi Arabia made the request in papers filed in...
Aug 7 2017 // Whenever severe weather strikes and there is property damage, insurers are among the first responders to help throughout the recovery process. However, in too many cases, some shady contractors, public adjusters and...
Aug 7 2017 // A federal appeals court has ruled that NBC News did not defame an Oregon sporting goods company by characterizing its exploding rifle targets as “bombs” in a report on the “Today” show.The 2nd U.S....