Texas Supreme Court Rules ExxonMobil Entitled to Info About Medical Payments November 23, 2021 By Jim Sams Medical providers who treated patients injured by a fire and explosion at an ExxonMobil chemical plant near Houston must disclose...
Judge OKs Boeing Agreement to Settle Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX Crash Claims November 16, 2021 By David Shepardson A U.S. judge on Monday approved Boeing Co’s agreement to acknowledge liability for compensatory damages in lawsuits filed by families...
Jury Awards $42 Million to Rapid City Woman Injured at Work November 10, 2021 RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A Pennington County jury has awarded $42 million to a Rapid City woman after she...
Lawsuits: Mississippi Capital City’s Water Harms Children October 22, 2021 By Emily Wagster Pettus JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Two new lawsuits claim hundreds of children have been exposed to dangerous lead levels through the...
Tesla Would Face Tough Road in Any Bid to Slash $137M Racial Bias Verdict October 7, 2021 By Daniel Wiessner Tesla Inc will likely seek to slash a $137 million jury award for a Black worker who accused the automaker...
U.S. Supreme Court Rebuffs J&J Appeal Over $2B Baby Powder Judgment June 2, 2021 By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear Johnson & Johnson’s bid to overturn a $2.12 billion...
Judge Nixes Bayer’s $2B Plan for ‘Closure’ of Roundup Litigation May 27, 2021 By Tom Hals U.S. judge rejected Bayer’s $2 billion class action proposal aimed at resolving future lawsuits alleging its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer,...
Carnival’s Princess Unable to Dodge Passengers’ Covid Suit November 24, 2020 By Robert Burnson Carnival Corp.’s Princess Cruise Lines Ltd. failed to persuade a judge to dismiss negligence claims by 17 passengers who allege...
Defamation Costs Allstate $4M, Even After Court Erases Wrongful Termination Verdict October 28, 2020 By Jim Sams Allstate Insurance Co. was within its rights to fire Michael A. Tilkey from his $200,000-a-year job as a broker after...
Bayer Argues Against Weed-Killer Verdict, After Its Investigator Finds Farmer Still in Business July 30, 2020 By Tom Polansek CHICAGO — Bayer AG contended in court papers that a jury verdict in favor of a Missouri peach farmer was...