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Consumer Sues Nestle Claiming that the Vanilla in Coffee Mate Is Artificial
A favorite lawsuit filed by class action attorneys is that a consumer product is not what it claims to customers in its marketing. The attorneys get a decent cut of the settlement agreement while ...
Blackbaud Mulling Lawsuit after Paying Cybercriminals Ransom with Bitcoin
Blackbaud is the premier provider of fundraising and financial services for nonprofits. The company was unfortunately hacked, and a trove of consumer data was put at risk by professional cybercriminal...
Will State Liability Protections Prevent a Wave of COVID-19 Lawsuits?
States have given liability shields to a number of different entities during the COVID-19 crisis. From doctors to business, states have tried to protect them from lawsuits either through legislation or ...
Lawsuit Stemming from the Flint Water Crisis Can Proceed
The class action lawsuit against Flint for the widespread contamination of the city's water supply has now cleared a key legal hurdle and can proceed further in court. The Michigan Supreme Court issued a ruling ...
Three Meatpacking Employees Sue OSHA for Lax Regulation and Oversight
The meatpacking industry has come under scrutiny recently for its actions during COVID-19. Meatpackers have been sued by their employees for gross negligence that allegedly led to their injury and death...
Amazon Hit with Lawsuit Brought by Sickened Employees
One of the major litigation issues arising from the COVID-19 outbreak is whether employers will be liable in civil lawsuits when employees contract coronavirus at work. The usual remedy for this is that the employee ca...
Shareholders Sue Carnival for Its Incompetence During the COVID-19 Outbreak
The Diamond Princess Everyone remembers that harrowing trauma that was to befall the Diamond Princess on February 8, 2020. The coronavirus epidemic was in full effect in Wuhan, China, and South...
Nursing Homes Are Trying to Avoid COVID-19 Lawsuits by Lobbying States
The sector of the United States that has been hit the hardest by COVID-19 has been the nursing homes. Tens of thousands of the elderly have died as the highly contagious virus has rapidly spread throug...
States Face Numerous Lawsuits Filed Over Lockdowns
Numerous state and local governments are facing lawsuits over their stay-at-home orders from citizens and businesses that want the lockdowns to end. So far, litigants have had little success overturning these orders in co...