All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 12 2024 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized the first federal regulations on toxic “forever chemicals” in drinking water, setting tight limits that essentially require public water systems to all but...
Apr 12 2024 // More than a decade ago, Kristin Fritz was struggling with pain in her spine and saw a rheumatologist recommended by her doctor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.The visit with Dr. Derrick Todd started...
Apr 11 2024 // A young girl and her guardian have sued an Oregon nonprofit organization, Portland Public Schools and Multnomah County for $9 million, alleging they were negligent when male classmates sexually abused her at school and...
Apr 9 2024 // April 9 (Reuters) – U.S. railroad operator Norfolk Southern NSC.N said on Tuesday it had reached a $600 million deal to resolve a class action lawsuit related to the East Palestine, Ohio derailment last year.The...
Apr 9 2024 // Relatives of a Vermont woman whose obituary drew national attention for its candid and heart-breaking discussion of her opioid addiction have reached a settlement with some of the parties who were sued for allegedly...
Apr 9 2024 // A migrant farmworker who survived a mass shooting last year at a Northern California mushroom farm has filed a lawsuit against the farm and one of its owners, saying they failed to keep him safe from the colleague who...
Apr 8 2024 // MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin association representing attorneys agreed last week to change the definition of “diversity” to settle a federal lawsuit brought by a conservative law firm that argued its...
Apr 8 2024 // Does government inaction on climate change violate human rights?That is the question the European Court of Human Rights will for the first time seek to answer in Strasbourg, France, as it rules this week on three separate...
Apr 8 2024 // Frustrated at having unsuccessfully agitated for over three years to get lawmakers to ban smoking in Atlantic City casinos, workers on Friday tried a new tactic. They filed a lawsuit to try to overturn a law that leaves...
Apr 5 2024 // MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A worker burned in a 2022 explosion during renovation work on the University of Wisconsin’s Camp Randall Stadium has settled his lawsuit against the project’s general contractor for $22...
Apr 5 2024 // Women’s representation in senior level positions at US companies faces an “alarming turning point,” with steady growth showing signs of fatigue for the first time in two decades, according to a new...
Apr 4 2024 // Citigroup on Tuesday urged a federal judge to dismiss New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit accusing its Citibank unit of failing to reimburse customers who fall victim to online scammers.While recognizing...
Apr 4 2024 // Sanofi has reached an agreement in principle to settle 4,000 U.S. lawsuits linking the discontinued heartburn drug Zantac to cancer, the company said on Wednesday.Sanofi did not disclose the financial terms of the deal....
Apr 3 2024 // Sis-Bro, Inc., a hog farm in New Athens, Illinois, violated federal law when it allowed an employee to be harassed because of her sex and gender identity, forcing her to quit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
Apr 3 2024 // BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers representing migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard nearly two years ago by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis can sue the charter flight company that transported them, according to a ruling Monday by a...
Apr 3 2024 // Public health groups sued US regulators a second time for failing to follow through on a plan to ban menthol-flavored tobacco products.The lawsuit filed Tuesday in a federal court in Northern California claims that the...
Apr 3 2024 // American International Group and a group of its excess and surplus lines subsidiaries have filed suit against Dellwood Insurance Group and three former AIG executives who launched the nationwide E&S lines insurance...
Apr 3 2024 // The owner, operator and charterer of the container ship that struck Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge on Tuesday are likely to face lawsuits over its collapse and the people killed or injured, but legal experts...
Apr 2 2024 // NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Advocates for adult victims of childhood sexual abuse say they will ask Louisiana’s Supreme Court to reconsider a ruling that wiped out 2021 legislation giving them a renewed opportunity to file...
Apr 2 2024 // Google said it would delete millions of records of users’ browsing activities as part of a settlement of a class-action lawsuit that alleged it tracked people without their knowledge.The case, filed in 2020, alleged...