Most Popular Lawsuits Headlines This Year

The most viewed headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page over the last year.

#1 The Murdaugh Drama in SC Continues: Store That Sold Beer Now Suing its Insurers

Aug 27 2024 // The saga of the Murdaugh family in South Carolina continues, now with a convenience store company suing its liability insurers for failing to defend it against a second lawsuit stemming from the sale of beer to an underage...

#2 Former UPS Driver Wins $238 Million Verdict in Suit Over Firing

Sep 16 2024 // A Black UPS driver won a $237.6 million jury verdict in a case in which he alleged he’d been discriminated against and subject to a hostile work environment before being fired.The verdict, rendered Thursday in the US...

#3 Lyft is a Motor Carrier and State Farm Can Be Sued Directly, Georgia Court Says

Aug 28 2024 // Georgia lawmakers this year put an end to direct-action lawsuits against trucking companies’ insurers, but that did not come soon enough to bar litigation brought by people involved in accidents with ride-sharing...

#4 Morgan & Morgan Vows to Fight Proposed Class Action on ‘Botched’ Injury Claims

Jul 24 2024 // Morgan & Morgan calls itself the nation’s largest injury law firm, with offices in most states. But perhaps the Orlando-founded firm has grown too big, too quickly, suggests a proposed class-action lawsuit that...

#5 Allstate’s National General Sued by DOJ Over Alleged Force-Placed Insurance ‘Scheme’

Jul 26 2024 // Allstate’s National General auto insurance brand has been sued by the U.S. Department of Justice over allegations that National General and subsidiaries “engaged in a scheme to defraud customers” by...

#6 Suit Says OnStar, LexisNexis Shared Driving Data With Insurers, Spiking Rates

Mar 15 2024 // Do motorist-assistance systems like GM’s OnStar feed data to auto insurers, resulting in higher premiums for some drivers?A south Florida man says indeed, they do, and has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit...

#7 State Farm Sues Norfolk Southern Over Ohio Train Derailment

Mar 18 2024 // State Farm Insurance brought forth a subrogation lawsuit against Norfolk Southern over damages to a pair of East Palestine, Ohio homes allegedly caused by the railroad company’s February 2023 train derailment.State...

#8 AIG Sues Newly Launched Dellwood Insurance and Its Founders

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...

#9 D.A. in California Sues Farmers, Other Home Insurers Alleging Scheme to Underinsure

Jun 13 2024 // Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price’s Consumer Justice Bureau has sued multiple home insurance carriers in California, including Farmers Insurance Exchange, alleging they’re operating a scheme that...

#10 Downward Departure: Florida Insurance Agent Charged with Embezzling Premiums After He Was Hit with Lawsuits, Complaint

Sep 2 2024 // Florida authorities in August arrested a well-known southwest Florida insurance agent, charging him with larceny and embezzlement of premiums.Reid McDaniel, 33, who was named the honorary mayor of North Fort Myers last...

#11 The Battle Over J&J’s Bankruptcy Plan to End Talc Lawsuits

Jul 8 2024 // Eron Evans died in 2016 at 41 of ovarian cancer, leaving behind two daughters. Her grieving mother, Darlene, blames Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder – and she’s pursuing a lawsuit her daughter started a...

#12 Allstate Sues Florida Pain Clinics, Alleging Millions in Fraudulent Billings

Jan 2 2024 // After an Allstate Insurance investigation alleged that a well-known Florida pain clinic had conspired with an injury law firm and had fraudulently billed the auto insurer for unnecessary surgeries and risky procedures,...

#13 4,800 Claims Handled by Unlicensed Adjusters in Florida After Irma, Lawsuit Says

Apr 25 2024 // Two south Florida lawsuits against property insurers argue that two major carriers employed a business strategy of hiring inexperienced or even unlicensed claims adjusters after storms, practices that have led to...

#14 Surgeons Can’t Slip Out of GEICO’s Latest RICO Fraud Lawsuit in NC, Judge Says

Jun 6 2024 // GEICO Insurance companies have continued their campaign against alleged auto insurance fraud actors, including some well-known physicians and medical clinics. And a federal judge ruled this week that two of those...

#15 Downward Spiral: Florida Insurance Agent Charged with Embezzlement After Lawsuits

Aug 16 2024 // Florida authorities have arrested a well-known southwest Florida insurance agent, charging him with larceny and embezzlement of premiums.Reid McDaniel, 33, who was named the honorary mayor of North Fort Myers last year but...

#16 5th Circuit Reverses Class Certification in Lawsuit Alleging State Farm Undervalued Total-Loss Claims

Dec 28 2023 // A federal appellate court reversed a trial court’s decision to certify a class of plaintiffs in a lawsuit that alleged State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. undervalued total-loss claims by Louisiana claimants.A...

#17 Court Orders Start to Expose ‘Startling’ Data on Litigation Funding Sources

Oct 8 2024 // There is no federal law that requires the disclosure of litigation funding agreements in court cases, but some disturbing insight has been found in individual jurisdictions that have rules to increase transparency,...

#18 Uber Sues Drivers’ Insurer Alleging Its Claims Practices Have Fueled Tort Litigation

Feb 20 2024 // Uber Technologies last Friday sued its drivers’ auto insurer for defense and indemnification regarding multiple lawsuits that are seeking to hold Uber vicariously liable for accidents involving some of its drivers in...

#19 New York Mets Hit With Class Action Alleging Biometric Privacy Violations

Oct 11 2024 // The company that owns the New York Mets professional baseball team is the target of a class action lawsuit alleging the organization collects and profits from fans’ biometric information at its stadium, CitiField, in...

#20 Judge Tosses Suit by Estate of Employee Killed in Crash After Mandatory Wine Tasting

Feb 9 2024 // A Connecticut judge has tossed a lawsuit by the estate of a woman who was killed in a crash while driving intoxicated following a mandatory wine tasting at the restaurant that employed her.The estate brought claims of...