An Air Methods helicopter in California in February. (Photo by Alan Wilson, Creative Commons ) Centennial-based Air Methods Corp., the nation’s largest air ambulance company, was hit last week with the sixth lawsuit since 2015 alleging that it overcharges patients. In a complaint filed Nov. 4, a Pennsylvania man injured in a car accident claims that publicly traded Air Methods Corp. billed him …
A federal lawsuit has been filed to declare Mississippi’s sodomy law unconstitutional. The lawsuit, filed by five people with the alias Arthur Doe, Brenda Doe, Carol Doe, Diana Doe and Elizabeth Doe, says in 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the right to engage in certain intimate sexual conduct, historically known as sodomy, …
One of the class-action lawsuits against Donald Trump and Trump University is scheduled to go to trial this month, weeks after Trump became President-elect of the United States. The lawsuits allege the former university, which took in over $40 million, was fraudulent and deceptive. Trump denies the allegations.
Drugstore giant Walgreen Co. sued its former lab-testing partner Theranos Inc. in federal court in Delaware, alleging it breached a contract between the two companies, court records show. The Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. WBA, +1.81% unit seeks $140 million in damages, the court records show. That amount represents what it invested in Theranos, according to people familiar with the situation.
A sexual abuse victim will continue to try to collect $1.8 million from former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, the victim’s attorney said on Tuesday, after an Illinois judge denied Hastert’s motion to dismiss a breach-of-contract lawsuit. The plaintiff, identified in court documents as James Doe, claims that Hastert agreed to pay him $3.5 million as …
A $1.5 billion putative class action accusing Tenet Healthcare Corp. of failing to protect patients and newborns from being exposed to tuberculosis at one of its hospitals has been moved to federal court. The lawsuit, which could represent the families of 3,000 children delivered at Tenet’s Hospitals of Providence Memorial Campus facility in El Paso, Texas, alleges hospital officials ignored a …
In one of the most shocking election surprises, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was accused by a woman of raping her when she was only 13 years old. The woman abruptly dropped her lawsuit last week, leading to plenty of speculation about what happened. Some even suggested Trump may have paid her off to keep quiet.
The Washington Legal Foundation is among those groups calling on a federal appeals court to overturn a lower court’s decision that, they argue, would undermine class-wide settlements by permitting plaintiff states to file copycat lawsuits despite benefiting from a settlement. The D.C.-based public interest law firm, which regularly advocates against excessive …
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has demanded that a $1billion lawsuit be thrown out after a former porn star accused him of ruining her adult film career by allowing lies that she was born a man to be spread on the social media site. Former porn star Paree La’Tiejira, aka Lady Paree, filed a suit against Facebook and its CEO earlier this year accusing them of libel and intentional infliction of …
The increasingly bizarre litigation over the World Trade Center building appeared to quickly unravel Monday (Nov. 7) when neither the man behind the lawsuit nor any lawyers representing his company showed up in court to pursue the case. Two Canal Street Investors’ case against the city of New Orleans challenges the lease of the 33-story building to a Four Seasons hotel development team with …