A class action lawsuit has been filed against Healthport Technologies LLC, IOD Inc. and CIOX Health LLC, citing alleged breach of contract, fraud and unjust enrichment from overcharging patients for health records. Leon Kuchenmeister, Cindy A. Hugger-Gravitt, and Beth A. Bretoi filed a complaint on behalf of all those similarly situated on March 20, in the U.S. …
A wall of Marshalsea Prison, where the father of Charles Dickens was imprisoned for being in debt. (Photo: Hornbeam Arts )You don’t need to read Charles Dickens to learn about debtors’ prisons. You can just visit Sherwood, Arkansas.
A participant in the Seventy Seven Energy Inc. Retirement & Savings Plan has filed a lawsuit on behalf of the plan and a class of similarly situated participants in the plan against the 401(k) Fiduciary Committee, other plan fiduciaries, as well as Delaware Charter Guarantee & Trust Company d/b/a Principal Trust Company. The lawsuit alleges that Committee Defendants and Principal Trust …
A U.S. judge on Tuesday dismissed most of an investor lawsuit accusing several major banks of conspiring to manipulate the benchmark European Interbank Offered Rate, or Euribor, and related derivatives. In a 100-page decision, U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel in Manhattan said several claims in the proposed class action must fail because of a lack of evidence …
Mississippi House Republican leaders will appeal a court ruling in a dispute over an election that tied, went to a drawing of straws and was later flipped. The disputed election gave House Republicans a three-fifths supermajority by changing a seat from Democrat Bo Eaton to the GOP’s Mark Tullos. The lawsuit was filed by five voters whose ballots were discarded.
A lawsuit filed Monday in Louisiana alleges the state is negligent in guaranteeing Constitutional rights of poor people by not properly funding or maintaining the public defender system. The Southern Poverty Law Center, the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and two other law firms filed a class action suit Monday in Baton Rouge against Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards …
A federal judge in Baton Rouge this week expressed sympathy for the funding plight of New Orleans’ public defenders, but dismissed a lawsuit brought against the office by the American Civil Liberties Union that hoped to force the state to rectify budget inadequacies for indigent defense under court order. U.S. District Judge James J. Brady of the Middle District of Louisiana ruled Tuesday (Jan. …
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has declined to dissolve a class action settlement regarding alleged violations of the Kentucky Wage and Hour Act. Plaintiffs William Whitlock, David Skyrm, James Middleton and Kristin Moore, who were former employees of Fourth Street Live, an entertainment area located in downtown Louisville, filed a suit in Kentucky …
A ruling released Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Nanette Laughrey has cleared the way for Ryan Ferguson, convicted in the 2001 murder of a Columbia sports editor, to proceed with a $100 million lawsuit against six Columbia police officers. The court ruled that the six officers do not have qualified immunity in the case, which would protect them from civil liability except in cases in which they …
Abraham, Fruchter & Twersky, LLP has filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against Allergan plc (“Allergan”) and certain of its current or former officers. The case is titled Rosenberg v. Allergan PLC, et al. , No. …