All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 16 2017 // Rick Kornele and Charles Rayburn fished and crabbed as small boys on a sand bar near a popular boat ramp on the San Jacinto River — a site today blocked off by an imposing chain-link fence that’s plastered with...
Feb 16 2017 // Legal settlements in law enforcement civil rights cases over the past five years have severely depleted Albuquerque, N.M.’s risk management fund, which pays for uninsured losses. In a letter to city officials, state...
Feb 16 2017 // Specialist insurer Hiscox said it is addressing new exposures faced by the media and creative industries with the launch of two tailor-made professional indemnity products focused on those working within digital marketing...
Feb 16 2017 // A federal judge in Alabama is refusing to dismiss an environmental group’s lawsuit over alleged chemical contamination in the Tennessee River.The Decatur Daily reports U.S. District Judge Abdul Kallon won’t...
Feb 16 2017 // A townhome community in Mount Pleasant, S.C., has won a $7 million verdict against an Atlanta builder for what the townhome owners said was inferior work.The Post and Courier of Charleston reported a jury returned the...
Feb 15 2017 // A federal judge has refused to block the government’s $100 million lawsuit against Lance Armstrong, putting the former cyclist on course for trial in a 2010 case stemming from his performance-enhancing drug use.The...
Feb 15 2017 // Florida’s insurance industry will apply significant pressure on lawmakers to pass assignments of benefit (AOB) reform in the upcoming legislative session as consumers face rate increases and a looming coverage...
Feb 14 2017 // Almost a dozen years ago, then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed a fraud lawsuit against former American Insurance Group Inc. CEO Maurice “Hank” Greenberg over two reinsurance transactions that...
Feb 13 2017 // The estate of a late New Orleans YouTube star has filed a $20 million copyright infringement lawsuit against Beyonce over the use of his voice in her “Formation” video. The estate of Anthony Barre, who went by...
Feb 13 2017 // Labor secretary nominee Andrew Puzder, the controversial business leader expected to undergo a U.S. Senate confirmation hearing next week, will be spared an emotionally weighted and concurrent discrimination trial against...
Feb 9 2017 // Assignment of benefits abuse has escalated over the last five years to the point where it is now a serious disruption to Florida’s insurance market.The abuse, which is especially rampant in South Florida, stems from...
Feb 9 2017 // A company that advances money to people awaiting settlement payouts was accused by New York and federal regulators of scamming sick responders to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, as well as National Football League retirees...
Feb 9 2017 // Attorneys for the family of a mentally ill woman who suffocated while handcuffed by Cleveland, Ohio, police say they’ve settled an excessive force lawsuit with the city for $2.25 million.Tanisha Anderson’s...
Feb 9 2017 // The U.S. Supreme Court will not act until at least the fall on a major business dispute on whether companies can head off costly class action lawsuits, meaning President Donald Trump’s nominee to the bench will...
Feb 8 2017 // A judge has cleared the way for dozens of former student’s in California’s Central Valley to take their school district to trial over fears that a job-training program exposed them to cancer.Attorney Allen...
Feb 8 2017 // A red-light camera company whose former chief executive pleaded guilty to a federal bribery charge will pay $20 million to settle a lawsuit with Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced on Feb. 6.The deal ends a lawsuit the...
Feb 8 2017 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said it resolved 97,443 charges of employment discrimination in fiscal year 2016 and secured more than $482 million for victims of discrimination in private, federal...
Feb 8 2017 // First Lady Melania Trump is suing a British newspaper, saying a defamatory article it later retracted deprived her of the chance to launch a lucrative brand of clothing, shoes, jewelry and perfume.The $150 million suit...
Feb 8 2017 // An insurance company is suing a Providence, R.I., chiropractic office, alleging its owner falsified medical records to boost insurance claims and paid kickbacks to personal injury lawyers who referred clients.The...
Feb 8 2017 // German automaker BMW AG has agreed to pay up to $477.7 million to settle a class-action lawsuit covering about 318,000 U.S. luxury car owners who may have suffered water damage harming electrical components in vehicle...