Court Nixes ‘Wrongful Life’ Framing in Upholding $38M Fertility Malpractice Award February 8, 2024 By Andrew G. Simpson The Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled that claims involving the evolving field of assisted reproductive technologies can be decided using...
Tiger King’s Carole Baskin Asks Florida Supreme Court To Review Defamation Lawsuit Ruling February 8, 2024 Carole Baskin, who became a pop culture sensation due to Netflix’s docuseries “Tiger King,” has asked the Florida Supreme Court...
NYCB Hit With First Investor Lawsuit Over Share Price Collapse February 8, 2024 By Patricia Hurtado New York Community Bancorp is facing the first of what are likely to be several securities fraud lawsuits alleging the...
Family of Black Girls Handcuffed, Held at Gunpoint in Colorado Reach $1.9M Settlement February 7, 2024 By Colleen Slevin The four Black girls lay facedown in a parking lot, crying “no” and “mommy” as a police officer who had...
Apple Defeats Khosla-Backed AliveCor Suit Over Watch Tech February 7, 2024 By Rachel Graf Apple Inc. won’t have to face a lawsuit alleging its smartwatch copied heart-monitoring technology from a Khosla Ventures LLC-backed startup,...
SpaceX Accused of Sexual Harassment as Fight With Ex-Employees Intensifies February 7, 2024 By Josh Eidelson and Loren Grush Executives at Elon Musk’s SpaceX discriminated against women, joked about sexual harassment and fired workers for raising concerns, seven former...
Bayer Loses Roundup Appeal in Blow to Bid to End Litigation February 6, 2024 By Tim Loh Bayer AG suffered a blow to its efforts to put a lid on the expensive and long-running litigation over its...
U.S. Research Foundation Files Lawsuit Against Japan’s JSR February 6, 2024 By Sam Nussey and Makiko Yamazaki A New York university-connected research foundation has filed a lawsuit against Japan chip materials maker JSR 4185.T, court documents show,...
A Johnson & Johnson Worker Alleges Company Overpaid for Drugs February 6, 2024 By John Tozzi and Chris Dolmetsch Johnson & Johnson was sued by an employee who said the company’s health plan wasted workers’ money by paying inflated...
Contractor Reaches $25M Settlement in Flint, Michigan Water Crisis Suit February 6, 2024 ]A second contractor has reached a $25 million settlement over its role in Flint, Michigan’s lead-contaminated water scandal. The class-action...