A judge will halt lawsuits against Purdue Pharma and its owners for six months in hopes of finalizing a settlement over the OxyContin maker’s role in the national opioid crisis, he said Friday.
Read moreLawyers pushing for a bankruptcy plan that would pay $25.5 billion in wildfire claims and give hedge funds control of Pacific Gas and Electric argued in court Monday that fire victims support a corporate takeover of the embattled utility.
Read moreAfter losing two lawsuits to Christian student groups at the University of Iowa, school administrators now face the prospect of paying damages to the plaintiffs out of their own pockets.
Read moreA Utah company asked a 10th Circuit panel Wednesday to reject a judge’s finding that it is a successor to Paragon Contractors, a company with numerous Department of Labor violations and ties to Mormon sect leader Warren Jeffs.
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A jury trial on Pacific Gas and Electric’s liability for the 2017 Tubbs Fire will start Jan. 7 in San Francisco, a California judge ruled Monday, after rejecting PG&E’s requests to move the case to Santa Rosa and limit the number of plaintiffs.
Read moreThe widow of the late Steven Greco claims in Broward County Court that Round Up Country and The Florida Billiard Club served an habitual drunkard copious amounts of alcohol, knowing he was drunk, and he drove the wrong way on Interstate 75 and killed her husband, who was driving home from work.
Read moreThe amount Pacific Gas and Electric must pay wildfire victims will be based on expert opinions on the average damages for wrongful death and property loss claims, along with prior PG&E settlements in similar disputes, a federal judge said in court Tuesday.
Read moreThough the 416 Fire has sparked three lawsuits against it, the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad maintains its coal-powered train did not spark the 54,000 acre wildfire across southwestern Colorado last summer.
Read moreWith a major trial to test prescription opioid manufacturers’ liability set to begin next month, a federal judge refused Monday to throw out the public nuisance claims of two Ohio counties impacted by the national crisis.
Read moreThe owners of a dive boat that sank in a Labor Day fire off the Southern California coast filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to minimize liability for the tragedy.
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The Fourth Circuit Friday gave families of victims of the 2015 Charleston church shooting a second chance to challenge U.S. gun regulations, reversing a lower court’s decision that had found the government immune from the claims.
Read moreDemands that Pacific Gas and Electric pay government agencies for emergency response and other wildfire-related costs won’t be lumped into the same estimation process required for other wildfire claims, a federal judge said in court Tuesday.
Read moreThe Texas Supreme Court would not recognize that Walgreens owes a duty to third parties injured on the road by a customer who was negligently given someone else’s prescription, the Fifth Circuit ruled. The pharmacy gave a man a drug that caused him to experience severe hypoglycemia and drive erratically, killing himself and another driver.
Read moreGun manufacturer Remington Arms asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to overturn a ruling from Connecticut’s high court allowing the company to be sued by one survivor and the families of nine victims killed in the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Read moreCalifornia utilities will soon be able to access a $21 billion state insurance policy to settle wildfire-related lawsuits and liabilities under legislation approved Thursday by lawmakers.
Read moreIn a negligence case against C.R. Bard for its pelvic mesh product, a federal judge has asked the Third Circuit to resolve “whether Pennsylvania recognizes a strict liability claim for a manufacturing defect of a prescription medical device.”
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(CN) – California Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled plans Friday to create a $10.5 billion wildfire cost recovery fund along with
Read morePacific Gas and Electric, the Northern California utility whose equipment sparked some of the deadliest and most destructive wildfires in Golden State history, agreed Tuesday to pay about $1 billion to local governments affected by the blaze.
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