A new proposed class action lawsuit is seeking compensation for Quebecers who’ve suffered from opioid addiction, targeting 27 companies that manufactured, marketed or sold the drugs and “deliberately misrepresented” the effects of opioids. The class action application, filed in Montreal on Thursday, seeks $30,000 in damages for each member of the class in addition to $25 million from each …
Monroe County has joined more than 100 counties in the U.S. in a lawsuit against the companies that distribute, market and create opioid drugs. Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo made the announcement Wednesday about the lawsuit. The litigation aims to recoup the various costs each county has incurred as a result of the opioid epidemic.
On Friday a federal judge dismissed two wrongful death lawsuits against the WWE. The lawsuits stemmed from the families of two former WWE wrestlers that believed their deaths were caused by traumatic brain injuries they suffered while working for the company. The families of Nelson Frazier (Mabel, Viscera and Big Daddy V) and Matt Osborne (Doink The Clown) alleged in their lawsuits that the WWE …
Three US former drone operators on Thursday joined a lawsuit against US President Barack Obama over the deaths of innocent Yemenis in US drone strikes. The brief, filed by Brandon Bryant, Lisa Ling and Cian Westmoreland, said the veterans had “witnessed a secret, global system without regard for borders, conducting widespread surveillance with the ability to conduct deadly targeted killing …
Portland City Commissioner Amanda Fritz settled her lawsuit earlier this month against the last defendant accused of contributing to the death of her husband in a rainy head-on collision on Interstate 5, court records show. Amanda Fritz agreed to a total of $1.75 million for the Sept. 24, 2014, crash that killed Steve Fritz in his 1993 zebra-striped Nissan Sentra. Although attorneys involved in …
Remington Arms Co.’s Model 700
What does a gun company do when it has a top selling product with a trigger defect that’s causing accidental deaths? Nothing, apparently, for decades. That’s the story of Remington Arms Co.’s Model 700 series rifle, which CNBC reports had a defective firing mechanism since it was invented almost 70 years ago.