Targeted Motel 6 Guests Owed Millions May Be Impossible to Find April 9, 2019 By Kartikay Mehrotra Motel 6 agreed to pay almost $20 million to tens of thousands of former guests whose ” Latino-sounding names” were...
Sorry, Laws Protecting Doctors Who Apologize Don’t Lessen Litigation April 5, 2019 Laws intended to reduce malpractice litigation by protecting doctors who want to apologize don’t work, according to a new Vanderbilt...
Sackler Family Asks Judge to Toss Massachusetts Opioid Suit April 3, 2019 By Jef Feeley The billionaire family that owns Purdue Pharma LP says Massachusetts officials can’t prove that it or other directors masterminded the...
2nd Circuit Uphold’s Defeat of Harassment Suit Against Gay Dating App March 29, 2019 By Jonathan Stempel A U.S. federal appeals court refused to hold Grindr liable to a New York man who said his former boyfriend...
N.Y. Accuses Opioid Maker Purdue of Illegal Fund Transfers to Sacklers March 29, 2019 By Nate Raymond Purdue Pharma LP fraudulently transferred funds to members of the wealthy Sackler family who control the OxyContin maker despite knowing...
Boeing Sued by Passenger Killed in Ethiopian Airlines Crash March 29, 2019 By Peter Blumberg and Janan Hanna Boeing Co. was sued on behalf of a passenger killed in the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines flight over claims...
Vermont Sues 2 Prescription Opioid Distributors March 28, 2019 By Lisa Rathke BURLINGTON, Vt. — Vermont filed a lawsuit Tuesday against two pharmaceutical distributors, accusing them of selling ever-increasing amounts of prescription...
Sackler Family Sued by New York Over Opioid `Catastrophe’ March 28, 2019 By Erik Larson Purdue Pharma LP and its billionaire owners, the Sackler family, were sued by New York state for triggering an addiction...
Suit: Weather Channel’s Reckless ‘Storm Wranglers’ Caused Deadly Crash March 28, 2019 By Jim Sams Photo courtesy of Robert A. Ball The mother of a Texas man who was killed when his vehicle collided with...
Purdue to Pay $270M to Settle Okla. Opioid Lawsuit March 26, 2019 By Jef Feeley Purdue Pharma LP and the Sackler family will pay $270 million to settle Oklahoma’s claims that illegal marketing of the...