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Purdue Pharma Backs Creditor Move to Sue Sacklers Over Assets
Jul 9 2024 // The bankrupt estate of Purdue Pharma says it will support a move by the opioid maker’s creditors to sue members of the Sackler family over allegations that they improperly shifted billions of dollars of Purdue...
Can Insurers Sue School Boards for PIP Claim Reimbursement? Florida Courts Differ
Jul 9 2024 // In 1997, Florida lawmakers tweaked the state’s personal injury protection or “no-fault” auto insurance law. The idea was to allow school kids injured in a school bus accident to have some of their medical...
Brazil Sues Syngenta for Alleged Environmental Damage
Jul 8 2024 // Brazil’s environmental agency IBAMA has sued Syngenta alleging the chemicals company caused “environmental damage” by producing and selling pesticides using much higher concentrations of a carcinogen than...
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...
Banks Face Record Number of UK Lawsuits as Economy Stumbles
Jul 8 2024 // Banks in the UK are embroiled in the highest number of lawsuits in a decade in a trend that shows no sign of slowing down. Almost three new cases involving financial services firms were filed every day on average at the UK...
Former Kansas Newspaper Reporter Settles Lawsuit Over Police Raid for $235K
Jul 8 2024 // TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A former reporter for a weekly Kansas newspaper has agreed to accept $235,000 to settle part of her federal lawsuit over a police raid on the paper that made a small community the focus of a national...
Delaware Judge Allows Suit Over Police Fatal Shooting of Mentally Ill Woman
Jul 8 2024 // A Delaware judge on Tuesday refused to dismiss a lawsuit involving the death of a mentally ill woman who was killed by a state trooper in 2021 after she fired a shotgun at him. Raymond Rooks contends that state police used...
Lawsuit Claims Omaha Housing Authority Violated Tenants’ Rights
Jul 2 2024 // A federal class-action lawsuit alleges the Omaha Housing Authority continuously violated the legal rights of low-income tenants over the last seven years. Current and former tenants suing OHA claim the public housing...
Michigan Court Revives Lawsuit Over Woman Found Alive in a Body Bag
Jul 2 2024 // DETROIT (AP) — A Michigan appeals court revived a lawsuit against Detroit-area paramedics after a woman who had been declared dead gasped for air with her eyes open when a body bag was unzipped at a funeral home. A judge...
Ohio Company to Pay $23K Over Disability Discrimination Suit
Jul 1 2024 // Pearl Interactive Network, Inc., a Columbus, Ohio-based telecommunications company, resolved a charge of disability discrimination filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal...
Business Liability Claims Litigation Jumped in 2023: Lex Machina
Jul 1 2024 // After holding relatively steady for nearly a decade, the number of business liability policy claims cases jumped 28% in 2023, according to a litigation report from Lex Machina. The report found that 3,596 business...
D.A. in California Sues Farmers, Other Home Insurers Alleging Scheme to Underinsure
Jul 1 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...
Surgeons Can’t Slip Out of GEICO’s Latest RICO Fraud Lawsuit in NC, Judge Says
Jul 1 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 in June that two of those...
Texas Health System Loses COVID-19 Business Interruption Suit – 5th Circuit
Jun 28 2024 // A Texas nonprofit health system who purchased a specialized commercial property insurance policy is not covered for business interruption losses caused by COVID-19, a 5th Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled, relying on...
Ex-Staffers of Missouri Boarding School Face Suit Alleging Abuse of Students
Jun 28 2024 // JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Yet another civil lawsuit filed Wednesday against a Missouri Christian boarding school by a former student accuses staffers of forced child labor, physical abuse and tactics aimed at hiding...
Lawsuits Targeting ‘Climate Washing’ Becoming More Frequent
Jun 28 2024 // Companies accused of misrepresenting their progress on tackling climate change are increasingly finding themselves the target of litigants, as activist groups look to hold some of the world’s worst polluters to...
New Hampshire Sues TikTok Alleging Consumer Protection Violations, Harm to Kids
Jun 27 2024 // New Hampshire is suing social media video service TikTok Inc. for allegedly violating the state’s consumer protection act, Attorney General John M. Formella announced. The state’s complaint against TikTok filed...
Connecticut Firefighters Sue DuPont, 3M, Honeywell Over Allegedly Contaminated Gear
Jun 27 2024 // DuPont, 3M, Honeywell and 16 other defendants were sued on Tuesday by Connecticut firefighters who said their protective gear was contaminated by toxic “forever chemicals” linked to cancer. Lawyers for the...
Arkansas Sues Pharmacy Benefit Managers Over Alleged Role in Fueling Opioid Crisis
Jun 26 2024 // LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas on Monday sued two pharmacy benefit managers that oversee coverage for insurers, employers and other large clients, accusing them of fueling the opioid crisis in the state. Attorney...
Grocery Store Chain Settles Suit Alleging Sexual Harassment, Disability Discrimination
Jun 26 2024 // Regional grocery chain Weis Markets, Inc. has settled a sexual harassment and disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of an employee, the federal agency...
