Consumer Group Demands Probe After NY Times Reports on Alleged Bias at State Farm March 25, 2022 By Jim Sams A national consumer rights group on Thursday called on state insurance commissioners to investigate racial bias in claims handling after...
Supervisor on Miss. Ship Abused Multiple Women, Lawsuit Says October 5, 2021 BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — A military manufacturer and a contracting company are being sued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
COVID-19 Vaccine Approval is ‘Seismic’ Shift For Legality Of Mandates, Experts Say August 25, 2021 By Tom Hals Formal U.S approval of the Pfizer Inc /BioNTech SE COVID-19 vaccine will make it nearly impossible to successfully challenge mandates...
US Female Firefighters Fight Discrimination With Lawsuits March 15, 2021 By Tom Foreman Jr. WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — The highest ranking female firefighter in Asheville, North Carolina, says she was repeatedly discriminated against because...
Ambulance Company Settles Lawsuit With Pregnant Employee December 30, 2020 SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Ambulance company American Medical Response will settle a discrimination lawsuit after it refused to provide a...
8th Circuit: Late Notice Barred Coverage Under ‘Claims-Made’ Policy December 29, 2020 By Jim Sams Ace American Insurance Co. is not liable for the approximately $250,000 that an Arkansas school district paid to settle a...
Employers Could Mandate a COVID-19 Vaccine, but are Unlikely to Do So December 8, 2020 Private U.S. companies have the right under the law to require employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19, but are unlikely...
Del Taco Settles Sexual Harassment Charges, Enters Consent Decree December 3, 2020 By Jonathan Stempel Del Taco Restaurants Inc agreed to pay $1.25 million and enter a three-year consent decree to settle a U.S. agency’s...
Ex-Deputy Settles Sexual Harassment Lawsuit for $250,000 December 24, 2019 By Ken Ritter LAS VEGAS — A former chief deputy sheriff in rural Nevada has accepted $250,000 to end a lawsuit stemming from...
Feds Sue Arkansas Insurer Over Fired Employee Who Had A Baby December 5, 2019 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The federal government is suing a Little Rock-based insurance company over the firing of a worker...