The 2020 Denver George Floyd protests resulted in a number of police brutality lawsuits that have required the city to dish out millions in settlement payments. The latest settlement will cost the city of Denver and others $485,000 in taxpayer dollars after protestor Trevor Hughes filed a lawsuit blaming the... Read More »
The families of two people who were killed in the 2021 Astroworld Music Festival have settled with concert organizer and headliner, rapper Travis Scott. The November 5 concert resulted in a deadly crowd surge shortly after Scott took the stage. The crowd surge killed 10 concertgoers and injured hundreds more.... Read More »
Less than a week after an online application portal for student debt relief went live, a federal appeals court temporarily blocked the Biden administration from moving forward with its student loan forgiveness plan. The ruling came Friday evening just as over half of qualifying student loan borrowers filed applications on... Read More »
An Illinois medical device sterilization company has been ordered to pay $363 million to a cancer survivor who lived in the same community where the company’s plant was based. The lawsuit was brought forward by Susan Kamuda, and her complaint is just one of over 700 that accused the company,... Read More »
Five former daycare employees have been arrested and charged after viral videos show them using scary Halloween masks to frighten a classroom of young children. Four of the individuals are facing felony child abuse charges while the fifth is facing a misdemeanor count of simple assault against a minor and... Read More »
Alarming radioactive contamination levels at Missouri’s Jana Elementary School have caused the school to shut its doors and switch to virtual learning. The news was shared Tuesday evening during a packed Hazelwood School District board meeting. At that meeting, parents were told that children who attended Jana Elementary School in... Read More »
The father of a five-year-old girl who was killed in a July car crash that involved Wisconsin Senate minority leader Janet Bewley has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the senator, the driver who struck the vehicle his daughter was in, and three insurance companies. Brandon Fink, the father of... Read More »
The nation’s largest domestic carrier, American Airlines, has agreed to a $7.5 million settlement to end a lawsuit claiming the company improperly charged baggage fees to certain passengers. The class-action lawsuit was filed in February 2021 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. The initial... Read More »
The family of a North Charleston, SC, cyclist who was killed by an Uber driver in November 2021 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the driver and the ride-sharing company. On the evening of November 14, 2021, Joseph David Chase Jr. was struck from behind by Uber driver Kenric... Read More »
The University of Iowa Hospital and Clinic (UIHC) has agreed to a $15 million settlement to end a 2019 class action lawsuit that alleged hospital and clinic employees were improperly paid and were not paid overtime. The lawsuit was filed against Iowa's Board of Regents, the governing body of the... Read More »
A Mississippi judge has blocked a state law that allocated $10 million of federal pandemic relief funding to infrastructure grants for qualifying private schools in the state. The ruling was handed down by Hinds County Chancery Judge Crystal Wise Martin. Her ruling comes after the nonprofit group Parents for Public... Read More »
Trevor Milton, the former CEO and founder of innovative electric truck company Nikola Motors, has been found guilty on three of four counts of fraud. The fraud charges stem from misleading statements Milton made while he was the acting chairman and CEO of Nikola. Milton, who rose to the rank... Read More »
A Jacksonville, Florida man has filed a lawsuit against medical device provider, Tracpatch Health Inc. The lawsuit was filed by Robert C. Hovey in the Middle District of Florida. According to Hovey, Tracpatch Health Inc. knowingly marketed a hip replacement system known as the Consensus Hip System despite it being... Read More »
The University of Washington has been ordered to pay the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) nearly $540,000 following a 2020 lawsuit that alleged the university destroyed critical public records during a federal investigation. In December 2021, the National Institute of Health released the results of a federal investigation... Read More »
Former Peloton trainer Daniel McKenna has filed a $2 million lawsuit against his former employee and a company executive. McKenna claimed that he was “subject to a hostile work environment” after the company discriminated, harassed, and retaliated against him. McKenna filed his lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court in... Read More »
