(Photo: KUSA) KUSA – Citing facility charges that can sometimes top $6,000, a federal lawsuit with ties to Colorado seeks to challenge the billing practices of the country’s largest operator of freestanding emergency rooms. The suit, which references ongoing reporting by 9Wants to Know, suggests the co-owner of Colorado’s 19 UCHealth ERs “actively conceals its billing practices from consumers …
Bruce Kaufman, Bloomberg BNA The House is poised to pass three bills this week championed by industry that may tilt the civil litigation process in favor of business in thousands of cases each year. Business groups are encouraged about the measures’ chances of eventual enactment. That’s because the House is not only taking up the far-reaching bills addressing class actions, asbestos cases and …
A year ago, candidate Donald Trump proclaimed that, if elected president, he would change the nation’s libel laws to make it easier for people like him to sue those who make false and defamatory statements about them. “One of the things I’m going to do if I win,” he promised, is “to open up our libel laws” so that when people say “purposely negative and horrible and false” things about me “we …
In another rebuke to Gov. Rick Scott and a victory for House Speaker Richard Corcoran, a Leon County Circuit Court judge invalidated a multi-year contract with Lottery Department ticket vendor IGT Global Solutions on Tuesday, saying the agency overstepped its budgetary authority. Related News/Archive 6 Months Ago The 15-page ruling by Leon County Circuit Court Judge Karen Gievers …
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NEW YORK, NY – JULY 20: PayPal President and CEO Dan Schulman speaks before ringing the bell at Nasdaq this morning on July 20, 2015, in New York City.
DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Former United States Securities and Exchange Commission attorney Willie Briscoe, founder of The Briscoe Law Firm, PLLC, announces that a federal class action lawsuit has been filed against HMS Holdings Corp. (“HMS” or “Company”) (NasdaqGS: HMSY) and several officers and directors for acts taken during the period of May 10, 2016 and March 2, 2017 (the “Class Period”). …
Pitman’s order distinguished between two types of Title IX claims: In the first, more traditional claim, a woman who was sexually assaulted accuses Baylor of failing to respond to her particular situation after she reported it to the school. In those claims, the judge ruled, the two-year statute of limitation should begin as scheduled â from the time an assault was reported. Four of the 10 …
Today, I want to look at a case that just went to federal court, became a class action case, against private prisons, about slavery. Joining me to kind of explain what’s going on there is Glen Ford. He’s the executive editor of the Black Agenda Report, and he is also the editor of the Big Lie.
FireEye is close to paying $10.3m to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that the security firm misled investors about the effectiveness of its security technology. Santa Clara Superior Court Judge Peter Kirwan said he was minded to approve the negotiated settlement once details such as proposed attorneys’ fees and procedures for litigants to opt out had been resolved. The dispute dates back …
It might make you think twice about the jewelry you’re wearing. Some 250 men and women are accusing some of the country’s most popular jewelry stores of widespread sexual misconduct. As part of a larger gender discrimination class-action case against parent company Signet Jewelers (shown below), former female employees of Kay, Zale’s, Jared’s and more claim that they were …