Joel Silver, his company Silver Pictures, and its employee Martin Herold have all been named in a lawsuit regarding the death of Silver’s former personal assistant, Carmel Musgrove. The suit, filed by Musgrove’s estate and parents, is suing all three parties for wrongful death. Musgrove was found dead at age 28 on a beach in Bora Bora during a star-studded trip to the island hot spot in 2015.
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 …
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.
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 bitter lawsuit between Uber and Waymo has taken yet another turn as approximately 400 text messages between former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and former Uber and Waymo engineer Anthony Levandowski were released in a recent court filing. The legal battle centers around Waymo trade secrets allegedly stolen by …
Two people are filing a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against those they believe are responsible for a deadly car attack by the Downtown Mall. Plaintiffs Tadrint Washington and Micah Washington name a total of 30 defendants in their lawsuit, including James Alex Fields Jr., Jason Kessler, and Vanguard America. The sisters are seeking a trial by jury in Charlottesville Circuit Court, and a total …
Can the government ban the text of the First Amendment itself on municipal transit ads because free speech is too “political” for public display? If this sounds like some ridiculous brain teaser, it should. But unfortunately it’s not.
Days after an anti-diversity “manifesto” went viral inside Google and infuriated thousands of its employees, over 60 current and former Google employees are now considering suing the company for sexism and pay disparities against women. According to a report in The Guardian on Tuesday, civil rights attorney James Finberg is working on bringing a class-action lawsuit on behalf of the female …
The Walt Disney Company has been slapped with a lawsuit claiming that more than 40 of its smartphone apps are illegally spying on children. The class-action lawsuit alleges that Disney is violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The law, passed in 1998, was designed to protect the privacy of children online.