Aug 1, 2016

Kroger Included in Tainted Peas Case

Kroger Co. has been listed as a defendant in a recent class action lawsuit filed on behalf of customers who became ill with listeria following the ingestion of vegetables grown by Pictsweet Co. and processed by CRF Frozen Foods. Listeria monocytogenes grown on Listeria Selective Agar | James.folsom According to the complaint, with the bacteria present in the …


State Pays Off $100 Million Prisoner Lawsuit, and 6 More Facts About Michigan Judgments

Michigan pays $378 million in lawsuit judgments, settlements over decadeMichigan paid more than $41 million, while receiving more than $278 million in lawsuit settlement and judgment payments over a year, a new report by the Senate Fiscal Agency shows. Here are seven things about lawsuit payments and settlements made and received by the state, according to the annual Senate Fiscal Agency’s …


One Lawsuit Dismissed, Another Allowed to Proceed in Case of HIV-positive Surgical Tech Who Stole Syringes

Judges have issued competing rulings over the validity of lawsuits filed by patients who fear they may have been infected by a former surgical technologist at Swedish Medical Center who stole painkiller syringes while he was HIV positive. Denver District Court Judge Jay Grant on Thursday dismissed one of the lawsuits because free blood tests offered by Swedish had not found infections among …


Union-Busting Bakery Accused of Wage Theft in Class-Action Lawsuit

Six months after the lopsided defeat of a union campaign at Portland Specialty Baking, a group of workers there have filed a lawsuit accusing the company of violating Oregon wage and hour and sick leave laws. Working with the non-profit Northwest Workers’ Justice Project, attorneys Corinna Spencer-Scheurich, Michael Dale, and Phil Goldsmith filed the suit Aug. 8 in Multnomah County …




University: Dismiss Lawsuit Related to Sexual Assaults

The University of Kansas is asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit related to two alleged sexual assaults. Two former female rowers contend they were raped in university housing by the same man. The two women and their parents claim in the lawsuit that the university misled the public by saying campus housing was safe.



Lawsuit Over Audits Seeks $5.5B From PricewaterhouseCoopers

Accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers squared off Tuesday in court with lawyers for a defunct mortgage company’s creditors and investors over a $5.5 billion lawsuit, which claimed the Big Four firm failed through years of audits to uncover massive fraud at a failed Alabama bank. The estimated $21 billion fraud at Colonial Bank of Montgomery, Alabama, was orchestrated by top executives at the …


Jury Sat, Witnesses Called in First Day of Lawsuit Involving State Treasurer’s Office

Attorneys began questioning witnesses Monday in a defamation lawsuit involving an e-mail the state treasurer’s Chief of Staff Jim Harris sent out and released to KATV, as well as whether the e-mail at the center of the defamation suit led to Treasurer Dennis Milligan firing former employee David Singer. Singer is suing Jim Harris, alleging “slanderous and defamatory remarks” in regard to …