The most viewed headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page over the last 30 days.
Dec 12 2024 // Florida lawmakers established the Birth-Related Neurological Injury fund in 1988 to provide a no-fault remedy for parents of children with certain injuries incurred at birth, with an aim toward reducing the soaring cost of...
Jan 7 2025 // Just days after convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh was ordered to pay almost $15 million to Nautilus Insurance Co., his friend and co-conspirator is set to start trial in a civil suit brought by Nautilus for his role in the...
Dec 17 2024 // New York’s largest taxi insurer that is facing serious financial and regulatory challenges has filed a lawsuit seeking more than $450 million against medical providers it alleges have been part of a huge fraud scheme...
Dec 11 2024 // Major food companies, including Kraft Heinz, Mondelez and Coca-Cola, were hit with a new lawsuit in the U.S. on Tuesday accusing them of designing and marketing “ultra-processed” foods to be addictive to...
Dec 27 2024 // This story has been corrected to include the correct year in the headline.Insurance trade organizations are always working for the industry so Insurance Journal asked them: What are the top priorities and/or challenges...
Dec 17 2024 // Deloitte Consulting has been hit with class action lawsuits over the cyber breach of Rhode Island’s portal for state-administered benefits known as RIBridges.The suits have been brought in Rhode Island and New York...
Dec 26 2024 // Children of the wealthy and connected get special admissions consideration at some elite U.S. universities, according to new filings in a class-action lawsuit originally brought against 17 schools.Georgetown’s...
Jan 8 2025 // A woman who worked as a hairstylist for Fox Sports alleges in a lawsuit that former host Skip Bayless made repeated, unwanted advances toward her — including an offer of $1.5 million to have sex with him.Attorneys for...
Jan 2 2025 // A federal judge in Connecticut refused to dismiss a long-running lawsuit accusing the former Nestle Waters North America of defrauding consumers by labeling its Poland Spring bottled water as “spring...
Dec 16 2024 // Woody Allen’s former personal chef claims in a lawsuit that the filmmaker and his wife fired him because of his service in the U.S. Army Reserves and questions about his pay, then “rubbed salt on the...
Dec 26 2024 // Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers filed a lawsuit last week in Lancaster County District Court against Change Healthcare alleging violations of the state’s Consumer Protection and Data Security Laws.The...
Dec 19 2024 // President-elect Donald Trump sued the Des Moines Register and its pollster for “brazen election interference” in publishing a survey the weekend before the election that showed Democrat Kamala Harris with a...
Jan 6 2025 // The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has sued Walmart and work scheduling platform Branch Messenger for allegedly forcing delivery drivers that are part of the discounter’s gig program to use costly deposit...
Dec 27 2024 // LL Bean, the clothing and outdoor gear company, agreed to stop selling a line of casual shoes to settle a lawsuit in which Skechers USA accused it of copying a design for its own shoes, which have sold in the millions.U.S....
Dec 18 2024 // It’s a question that has cropped up in state courts only on rare occasions: If the owner or officer of a subcontractor firm opts out of workers’ compensation coverage for himself, can he then sue the general...
Dec 26 2024 // At what point does a demand from an injured party constitute an insurance claim? In the case of a Georgia-based sperm bank, it’s when the injured party sends the letter – a date that came before the clearly worded...
Dec 12 2024 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit on Dec. 11 against manufacturers 3M and DuPont for misrepresenting the health risks of products made with forever chemicalsThe lawsuit alleges the companies for decades...
Dec 16 2024 // NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey and Minnesota sued Glock last Thursday, calling on the gunmaker to stop selling firearms that can be adapted with dime-sized switches to fire up to 1,200 rounds a minute.New Jersey Attorney...
Dec 19 2024 // CVS Health Corp. pharmacies illegally dispensed controlled substances including opioids, fueling an overdose crisis as short-staffed stores ignored red flags, the US Department of Justice alleged in a lawsuit unsealed...
Dec 20 2024 // American Airlines has agreed to settle a race discrimination lawsuit by three Black men who were temporarily removed from a flight at the insistence of white flight attendants, according to a court filing on Thursday.The...