The Changing ADA Lawsuit Landscape: Things Claims Professionals Need to Know March 31, 2025 By Elizabeth Ruggles Americans with Disabilities Act litigation isn’t new—but how, why, and where it shows up in the claims space has shifted...
Alfa Insurance Did Not Discriminate Against Worker with MS, Appeals Court Finds February 21, 2024 By William Rabb Alfa Insurance, one of the largest property/casualty insurers in Alabama, did not discriminate against an employee with multiple sclerosis and...
Hotel Owners Agree to Settle Disability Discrimination Case for $100K January 4, 2024 By Insurance Journal staff The owners and operators of a hotel in Omaha, Nebraska, have agreed to pay $100,000 to a former general manager...
Supreme Court Ducks Hotel’s Challenge to Disability Access Tester’s Right to Sue December 7, 2023 By Andrew G. Simpson The U.S. Supreme Court has passed on deciding whether private citizen “testers” who search online for and then sue companies...
AI Algorithms, Strict Place-of-Work Rules Potential Trouble Spots for Employment Claims November 14, 2022 By Jim Sams SAN DIEGO — Technological innovations and changing work arrangements brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic are among some of the...
Oregon City Sued Over Alleged ADA Violations Due to Blocked Sidewalks September 13, 2022 By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America People with disabilities in Portland, Oregon, have sued the city, saying they can’t navigate its sidewalks because of sprawling homeless...
Supreme Court Rules Against Discrimination Claim for Emotional Distress May 6, 2022 The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the dismissal of a discrimination lawsuit filed by a deaf, legally blind woman against...
US Businesses Get Hit With Record Numbers of Disability Lawsuits April 19, 2022 By Amy Yee U.S. small businesses have been battling soaring inflation, labor shortages and supply-chain snarls during the pandemic. Now many are hit...
NCCI Report Warns of ‘Alarming and Sobering’ Impact from Long-Haul COVID October 28, 2021 By Jim Sams About 10% of people who contracted COVID-19 continue to suffer persistent symptoms months later, creating the potential for millions of...
Pregnancy Discrimination Continues, 41 Years After Banned by Federal Law October 14, 2019 By Dee-Ann Durbin For 41 years, federal law has banned pregnancy discrimination in the workplace. But the stories tumbling out this week show...