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		<title>The Changing ADA Lawsuit Landscape: Things Claims Professionals Need to Know</title>
		<link>https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2025/03/31/329581.htm</link>
		
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						<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 05:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Americans with Disabilities Act litigation isn&#8217;t new—but how, why, and where it shows up in the claims space has shifted considerably in recent years. For those of us who work directly in claims resolution and management, these changes aren&#8217;t theoretical. &#8230;]]></description>
				
		
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		<title>Alfa Insurance Did Not Discriminate Against Worker with MS, Appeals Court Finds</title>
		<link>https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2024/02/21/322078.htm</link>
		
						<dc:creator><![CDATA[William Rabb]]></dc:creator>
						<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2024 06:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Alfa Insurance, one of the largest property/casualty insurers in Alabama, did not discriminate against an employee with multiple sclerosis and did not violate the Americans with Disabilities Act, a federal appeals court affirmed. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals &#8230;]]></description>
				
		
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		<title>Hotel Owners Agree to Settle Disability Discrimination Case for $100K</title>
		<link>https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/midwest/2024/01/04/321297.htm</link>
		
						<dc:creator><![CDATA[Admin]]></dc:creator>
						<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2024 16:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The owners and operators of a hotel in Omaha, Nebraska, have agreed to pay $100,000 to a former general manager and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the &#8230;]]></description>
				
		
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		<title>Supreme Court Ducks Hotel&#8217;s Challenge to Disability Access Tester&#8217;s Right to Sue</title>
		<link>https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2023/12/07/320811.htm</link>
		
						<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew G. Simpson]]></dc:creator>
						<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2023 16:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[ADA tester lawsuits]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Supreme Court has passed on deciding whether private citizen &#8220;testers&#8221; who search online for and then sue companies that appear to not be in compliance with federal disability regulations have standing to sue. However, the high court advised &#8230;]]></description>
				
		
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		<title>AI Algorithms, Strict Place-of-Work Rules Potential Trouble Spots for Employment Claims</title>
		<link>https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2022/11/14/313733.htm</link>
		
						<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Sams]]></dc:creator>
						<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2022 06:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Editor's Picks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Americans with Disabilities Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employment practices liability]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[SAN DIEGO — Technological innovations and changing work arrangements brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic are among some of the emerging issues that can make employers vulnerable to discrimination lawsuits, a top employment practices defense attorney said Thursday. Barry A. &#8230;]]></description>
				
		
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		<title>Oregon City Sued Over Alleged ADA Violations Due to Blocked Sidewalks</title>
		<link>https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/west/2022/09/13/312669.htm</link>
		
						<dc:creator><![CDATA[Admin]]></dc:creator>
						<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2022 13:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[West News]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[People with disabilities in Portland, Oregon, have sued the city, saying they can&#8217;t navigate its sidewalks because of sprawling homeless encampments. The federal class action lawsuit says the city has violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by allowing homeless people&#8217;s &#8230;]]></description>
				
		
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		<title>Supreme Court Rules Against Discrimination Claim for Emotional Distress</title>
		<link>https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2022/05/06/310318.htm</link>
		
						<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2022 05:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the dismissal of a discrimination lawsuit filed by a deaf, legally blind woman against a physical therapy business that wouldn&#8217;t provide an American Sign Language interpreter for her appointments. In a 6-3 ruling with &#8230;]]></description>
				
		
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		<title>US Businesses Get Hit With Record Numbers of Disability Lawsuits</title>
		<link>https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/international/2022/04/19/309954.htm</link>
		
						<dc:creator><![CDATA[Admin]]></dc:creator>
						<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2022 16:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[International News]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[U.S. small businesses have been battling soaring inflation, labor shortages and supply-chain snarls during the pandemic. Now many are hit by another unexpected challenge: disability lawsuits. Industry associations and business owners say serial plaintiffs filing dozens or hundreds of cases &#8230;]]></description>
				
		
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		<title>NCCI Report Warns of &#8216;Alarming and Sobering&#8217; Impact from Long-Haul COVID</title>
		<link>https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2021/10/28/306763.htm</link>
		
						<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Sams]]></dc:creator>
						<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2021 05:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[About 10% of people who contracted COVID-19 continue to suffer persistent symptoms months later, creating the potential for millions of people to suffer functional impairment for extended lengths of time, according to a report released Wednesday by the National Council &#8230;]]></description>
				
		
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		<title>Pregnancy Discrimination Continues, 41 Years After Banned by Federal Law</title>
		<link>https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2019/10/14/293575.htm</link>
		
						<dc:creator><![CDATA[Admin]]></dc:creator>
						<pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2019 17:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Warren]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[For 41 years, federal law has banned pregnancy discrimination in the workplace. But the stories tumbling out this week show it&#8217;s far from eradicated. Prompted by presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren&#8217;s claim that she was forced out of a teaching job &#8230;]]></description>
				
		
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		<title>Supreme Court Rejects Domino&#8217;s on Blind Man&#8217;s Website Lawsuit</title>
		<link>https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2019/10/07/293449.htm</link>
		
						<dc:creator><![CDATA[Admin]]></dc:creator>
						<pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2019 16:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Domino&#8217;s Pizza Inc., leaving the company to face a lawsuit by a blind man who says its website and mobile-phone app don&#8217;t comply with a federal disabilities law. Corporate trade groups had &#8230;]]></description>
				
		
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		<title>Lawsuit Alleges Safeco Field Discriminates Against Wheelchair Users</title>
		<link>https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/west/2018/10/24/287473.htm</link>
		
						<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2018 08:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[West News]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[Wheelchair users attending Seattle Mariners baseball games at Safeco Field get a &#8220;second-class&#8221; experience, a nonprofit disability-rights law firm says, and has filed a discrimination lawsuit. The Seattle Times reports that Washington Civil and Disability Advocate filed the lawsuit earlier &#8230;]]></description>
				
		
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		<title>Los Angeles Agrees to Spend $1B to Fix Sidewalks</title>
		<link>https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/west/2015/04/08/262699.htm</link>
		
						<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2015 10:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Los Angeles has agreed to spend about $1 billion over 30 years to repair its sidewalks to settle a lawsuit filed by disabled residents. The City Council on Wednesday agreed to fund repairs to resolve a lawsuit filed 4 1/2 &#8230;]]></description>
				
		
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		<title>Iowa Juror Sent Message with $240M Verdict for Abused Disabled Workers</title>
		<link>https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/midwest/2013/05/09/228635.htm</link>
		
						<dc:creator><![CDATA[Admin]]></dc:creator>
						<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 16:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Midwest News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Americans with Disabilities Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henry's Turkey Service]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[A juror says she wanted to send a message by supporting a historic $240 million verdict for 32 mentally disabled men who faced decades of abuse by a Texas company: Never again. Juror Robin Griebel outlined her rationale for awarding &#8230;]]></description>
				
		
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