The plaintiff who brought a lawsuit against the California Highway Patrol has reached a settlement with the agency totaling $4 Million. The lawsuit was brought forward by a man named Trae deBeaubien. DeBeaubien was in a relationship with 42-year-old May Wheat, the estranged wife of CHP officer Brad Wheat.... Read More »
The Biden administration campaigned heavily on student loan forgiveness. While these campaign promises have not yet come to fruition, the administration has announced the largest one-time debt cancellation ever made by the Department of Education. This massive discharge will total $5.8 billion and will impact roughly 560,000 borrowers. Unlike the... Read More »
Two Alabama public school workers are suing their employer after being asked to pay back over $55,000 in accidental overpayment. The school system is asking for the money back as a result of overpayment in salary that school administrators say the workers were not entitled to. The lawsuit was filed... Read More »
Almost a week after the school shooting that rocked the close-knit community of Uvalde, Texas, residents, survivors, and the families of the 19 slain students and two teachers are taking their first steps in what will be a drawn-out and difficult recovery process. For many, these early stages of the... Read More »
The family of a woman who died in a fiery crash while driving her Mustang has been awarded seven million dollars from the Ford Motor Company. The judgment comes from a product liability lawsuit that was brought forward against the automotive maker. The lawsuit was filed by Angel Tyler, the... Read More »
The family of a late U.S. Representative is suing his widow over claims that she went back on a promise to pay back medical expenses for his cancer treatments. U.S. Representative Jim Hagedorn of Minnesota passed away on February 17 at age 59 after a battle with kidney cancer. Hagedorn... Read More »
Jennifer Ann Hall worked as a respiratory therapist in Hendrick Medical Center located in the rural northeast area of Missouri. Hall was employed at the hospital between December 2001 and May 2002. During her five months there, the hospital saw 18 “code blue” incidents. Staff at the hospital used “code... Read More »
The family of a pedestrian who was struck and killed while walking in her town of Amherst, Massachusetts, is suing the driver of the school van that struck and killed her along with the town of Amherst. The town served as the driver's employer at the time of the incident. ... Read More »
Virginia’s Christian private college, Liberty University, has reached a settlement in a federal lawsuit filed in New York by 12 women who alleged the university had a pattern of mishandling sexual assault and sexual harassment cases. The women accuse the campus of fostering an unsafe environment as a result of... Read More »
The family of a Nebraska man has reached a $479,000 settlement with the state after the man was killed while serving time in a state detention center in 2017. 22-year-old Terry Berry Jr. was an inmate in Tecumseh State Correctional Institution when he was killed by his cellmate, Patrick Schroeder.... Read More »
Intuit, the company which makes TurboTax, has agreed to a $141 million settlement with all 50 states. The settlement stems from allegations that the popular self-filing tax software steered customers away from its free edition software and pushed them toward its paid services instead. Along with paying back millions of... Read More »
A $230 million settlement has been reached in a lawsuit brought forward by fishermen and property owners in Southern California against a Houston-based oil pipeline. The Plains All American Pipeline was the subject of a lawsuit after thousands of barrels of crude oil spilled onto the beaches of Southern California... Read More »
The city of Portland, Oregon, has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit that was brought forward last year by a group of individuals including some homeless residents of the city. The lawsuit was brought in May 2021 and accused the city of illegally throwing away people's personal belongings following citywide... Read More »
The state of Arkansas is suing several drug manufacturers and pharmaceutical benefits managers over accusations that the companies are violating the state's deceptive trade practice laws. The accusations detail that the plaintiffs inflated the price of insulin for diabetics by conspiring in a manner that best benefited them instead of... Read More »
In what is believed to be the largest settlement of its kind, a New Jersey man has agreed to a $10 million settlement with Camden County following a police encounter that left him paralyzed. In 2014, Xavier Ingram was left paralyzed in his arms and legs after a police encounter... Read More »
