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#1 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...
#2 Investment Funds File New Suits Over Lighthouse Insurance Collapse in 2022
Apr 23 2024 // Three investment firms connected to some of the best-known names on Wall Street have upped the ante in a legal dispute over now-insolvent Lighthouse Property Insurance Corp., based in Tampa. Fortinbras Enterprises, the...
#3 Property Owner Sued for Negligence in Hiring of Worker With Criminal Record
Apr 24 2024 // April Hurley’s attacker entered her apartment after identifying himself as the building maintenance man — a job he should never have obtained, according to a lawsuit filed Monday that accuses the property owner and...
#4 Miami Retirement Fund Class Action Alleges Globe Life Officers Concealed Fraud
May 3 2024 // After an investment research firm dropped a bombshell last month and sent shares of Globe Life Inc. plunging by 53%, the insurance company denied the allegations that officers had concealed fraud and sexual harassment...
#5 Everton FC Buyer Accused of Fraud, Double-Pledging Assets in Lawsuit
May 7 2024 // Lenders to 777 Partners have accused it of fraud, claiming that the Miami-based investment firm borrowed against $350 million of assets that it didn’t own, didn’t exist or were already promised to someone...
#6 Class Action Settlements Flooded With Fraudulent Claims by Scammers
May 3 2024 // Artsana, a maker of child car booster seats, last year agreed to settle claims that it had misled customers about how to use its products, offering $50 to people who had bought Chicco-brand seats. The company, which did...
#7 AIG Sues Newly Launched Dellwood Insurance and Its Founders
Apr 15 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...
#8 Supreme Court Makes It Easier to Sue for Job Discrimination
Apr 18 2024 // The US Supreme Court made it easier for employees to sue over discriminatory job transfers, siding with a St. Louis police officer who says she was shifted to a different role against her will because she is female. The...
#9 Class Action Opposes Limiting Ship’s Liability for Baltimore Bridge Collapse
Apr 26 2024 // A Baltimore small business has filed a class action against the owner and operator of the cargo ship Dali that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge last month. The suit, filed Thursday by the Karen Austin, the founder...
#10 Wells Fargo Bond Saleswoman Sues Over ‘Unapologetically Sexist’ Workplace
Apr 22 2024 // Wells Fargo was accused of sex discrimination in a lawsuit by a bond saleswoman who said the fourth-largest U.S. bank denied pay and promotions available to men and tolerated an “unapologetically sexist”...
#11 Zuckerberg Avoids Personal Liability in Meta Addiction Suits
Apr 16 2024 // Mark Zuckerberg won his bid to avoid personal liability in about two dozen lawsuits accusing Meta Platforms Inc. and other social media companies of addicting children to their products. US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez...
#12 Pfizer Agrees to Settle More Than 10,000 Zantac Cancer Lawsuits
May 8 2024 // Pfizer Inc. has agreed to settle more than 10,000 cases accusing it of hiding the cancer risks of its Zantac heartburn drug, according to people familiar with the deal, the biggest of the litigation. The agreements cover...
#13 Chamber of Commerce Sues to Block FTC’s Non-Compete Ban
Apr 24 2024 // Business groups led by the US Chamber of Commerce sued the Federal Trade Commission Wednesday seeking to block a rule finalized this week that would outlaw non-compete provisions that prohibit workers from switching jobs...
#14 China Construction Bank Sued in US Over Reinsurance Fraud Losses
May 10 2024 // China Construction Bank Corp., the nation’s third-largest commercial lender, was accused in a US lawsuit of enabling a massive fraud in the reinsurance industry that left companies with “monumental...
#15 Sanofi to Pay $100 Million to Settle Zantac Cancer Lawsuits
Apr 23 2024 // Sanofi will pay more than $100 million to settle about 4,000 lawsuits accusing the French drugmaker of failing to warn users that its Zantac heartburn medicine could cause cancer, according to people familiar with the...
#16 MGM Resorts Sues FTC to Stop Investigation of Casino Hack
Apr 17 2024 // MGM Resorts International sued the Federal Trade Commission to stop an investigation into how it dealt with a cybersecurity attack last year. The company said the investigation deprives it of its fundamental due process...
#17 ‘Fearless Girl’ Lawsuit by State Street Settles on Eve of Trial
Apr 30 2024 // State Street Corp. and the artist it commissioned to create Wall Street’s sculpture have settled a 2019 lawsuit on the eve of trial. The bank, which commissioned the artwork, was set to square off against the...
#18 200 Patients Sue, Alleging Sexual Abuse, Unnecessary Exams by Boston Doctor
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...
#19 Iowa and Iowa State Athletes File Lawsuit Against State Over Gambling Sting
May 6 2024 // Attorneys for more than two dozen Iowa and Iowa State athletes who were ensnared in a state gambling sting filed a civil lawsuit seeking unspecified monetary damages from the state and its public safety and criminal...
#20 Oregon Schools Sued for $9M After Young Girl Allegedly Raped
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...
