Pacific 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.
Read moreJoined by families of the victims, nearly 250 survivors of the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire in London brought a lawsuit Tuesday blaming faulty building materials made by U.S. for the blaze.
Read moreCalifornia lawmakers explored reforms to wildfire victim compensation Wednesday while wrestling with how to pay for the catastrophic damage wrought by the last two wildfire seasons.
Read moreThe Second Circuit revived a class action Wednesday against French bank BNP Paribas brought by refugees of Sudan’s ethnic-cleansing campaign who sought to hold the bank liable for claims that it helped a genocidal militia regime carry out the atrocities.
Read moreIowa and four other states have joined a growing number of lawsuits against drugmaker Purdue Pharma for its role in creating and profiting from a nationwide wave of opioid addictions, taking aim at a member of the billionaire Sackler family that is behind one of the largest opioid-producing companies in the country.
Read moreEmbattled utility giant Pacific Gas and Electric’s power equipment sparked the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history, state fire officials announced Wednesday, opening the company up to potential criminal charges.
Read moreAt a hearing Tuesday ahead of closing arguments in the third jury trial over whether Monsanto’s best-selling weed killer Roundup causes cancer, the judge in the case urged lawyers for a couple suing for punitive damages to keep the drama to a minimum.
Read moreThe federal jury that heard the first bifurcated trial on claims Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup causes cancer found the Bayer AG subsidiary liable for not warning a man of the product’s cancer risks and awarded him $80 million in damages. It also made the way forward in multidistrict litigation a lot more complex.
Read moreLA County sued Southern California Edison and its parent company to recoup over $100 million in costs and damages from a November 2018 wildfire that may have been sparked by the utility’s equipment.
Read moreThough it affirmed the dismissal of an injured police officer’s claims against Black Lives Matter, the Fifth Circuit revived a claim that the protest’s organizer failed to exercise reasonable care.
Read moreFlint residents suing over the city’s water crisis lost part of their consolidated class action against Michigan officials and companies Monday, but a federal judge ruled they can pursue claims of professional liability and violation of their right to bodily integrity.
Read moreAgrochemical giant Monsanto deliberately failed to warn a California man that its Roundup weed killer causes cancer even though it knew the widely used herbicide is unsafe, and must pay over $80 million in damages, a unanimous jury found Wednesday.
Read moreCan any dealer in a local market be sued by someone who is harmed by another person’s use of illegal drugs? Not without proof they were the one who sold them, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled.
Read moreA day after a unanimous jury found Roundup weed killer caused a California man’s cancer, Monsanto’s lawyers asked jurors Wednesday to set aside their feelings about the controversial company in deciding whether it also knew Roundup was carcinogenic and how much money it should fork over if it did.
Read morePacific Gas and Electric won’t be doling out big payments to shareholders until it removes all wildfire hazards from around its power lines under the terms of newly proposed conditions unveiled Tuesday night.
Read moreA state court judge in Los Angeles approved a deal Monday in which Southern California Gas Company will pay $120 million to state and local agencies over the 2015 Aliso Canyon methane gas blowout that forced thousands of residents to flee their homes.
Read moreIt will take Pacific Gas and Electric eight years to clear all hazardous trees, brush and overhanging limbs near its power lines that could spark a deadly wildfire in windy conditions, the utility giant told a federal judge Friday.
Read moreVictims of a terrorist attack that killed 49 people at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub have taken to a Florida appeals court to revive their claims that the perpetrator used nearly a decade of firearms training as a security guard to maximize the death toll.
Read moreAdding to a horde of lawsuits from wildfire victims and insurance companies that have sent it spiraling toward bankruptcy, California’s largest utility saw another familiar but powerful foe resurface Tuesday: Erin Brockovich.
Read moreA year after suing their company Purdue Pharma and others for $500 million, New York City formally accused the wealthy Sackler family of participating in a decades-long campaign to mislead the public about the dangers of OxyContin.
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