According to an insurance agent familiar with commercial insurance, due to a rash of recent lawsuits and settlement the Arrowhead Lake Association is at risk of increasing insurance premiums, having fewer choices and/or the inability to find insurance coverage. According to court records obtained by The Alpenhorn News, the Arrowhead Lake Association (ALA) has had seven lawsuits filed …
The teenage prostitute at the heart of a police sex scandal that rocked the Oakland police force has sued a second police department in California. Jasmin Abuslin, now 19, filed a lawsuit against Richmond, California on Thursday, claiming that officers on the city’s police force traded police protection for sex while she was underage. Abuslin, the daughter of a police dispatcher, was awarded …
There is always a huge cost to pay if you wash your dirty linen in public. If the cost were to come in the form of class-action suits, it could turn even more expensive. A class-action suit now seems inevitable given what happened at Infosys this past week.
Oklahoma hopes to correct a budget shortfall by enacting an electric car fee, but a lawsuit against the state asserts that proper procedures for such a tax were not followed.
Oklahoma’s Sierra Club Chapter isn’t happy about the recent proposed $100 fee for electric vehicles, and an additional $30 registration fee, which won’t be instated for gasoline and diesel engines. Of course, the environmental organization may move to battle anything that gets in the way of EV adoption or fails to note its benefits. Director of the organization’s Oklahoma chapter, Johnson Bridgewater, said in an interview: …
At least three US-based law firms sent out statements on Saturday saying they would initiate class-action lawsuits against Infosys for unlawful business practices, an exercise that is not uncommon with US-listed companies every time they go through a change, especially in the case of mergers and acquisitions. A day after Infosys chief executive Vishal Sikka stepped down from his role at India’s …
Porsche has settled a class action lawsuit out of court from a bunch of owners claiming they had to go and buy polarized sunglasses because the dashboard trim in their car was blinding in sunlight. Owners with the affected cars can get up to $175 in compensation. This is all hilariously insane.
The most effective way to fight telemarketers? Sue them and force a settlement—one worth up to $12.5 million. A Chicago judge approved a settlement last month that forces Carnival, Norwegian, Royal Caribbean, and a marketing company that worked with them to pay up for spamming people with pre-recorded telemarketing calls that promoted the cruise lines.
Since 2011, officials say prescription opioid overdoses have killed more than 3,000 South Carolinians. That’s one of the many reasons South Carolina’s attorney general filed a historic lawsuit Tuesday against one of the companies that makes such drugs. ABC15 News spoke with people who have personal connections to the epidemic, they say it’s about time.
A Bucks County woman has filed a lawsuit against a popular fast food restaurant after she says a small rodent wound up in a sandwich she purchased. A Holland, Pennsylvania woman claims in the lawsuit that she found a small rodent baked into the bottom bun of a sandwich she purchases at the Chick-Fil-A in Langhorne. The woman, who shared photos of her gruesome discovery is …
The grandparents of 10-year-old Victoria Martens say she would still be alive if Albuquerque Police did their jobs. A lawsuit against the Albuquerque Police Department and the city claims police dropped the ball and lied about it. Her grandparents believe police missed a chance to save Victoria before she was murdered last year.