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News Oct 17, 2016

Cook County Lawsuit Alleges Car Dealer Failed to Inform Now-Deceased Man Car Was Leaking Carbon Monoxide

A Cook County lawsuit alleges a Countryside car dealership failed to inform a customer, who later died in his car, that his vehicle was leaking carbon monoxide when he brought it in for repairs. An administrator of the deceased man’s estate filed a wrongful death claim against Fishacar Ltd. , which operates as Autobarn Volkswagen of Countryside, the Cook County Recorder reported Friday. The …

Lawsuits Sep 19, 2016

Women Severely Burned in Chicken Restaurant Floor Collapse File $150 Million Lawsuit

Two employees scolded by fryer grease after a floor collapsed at a Church’s Chicken in Livingston have filed a lawsuit against the franchise for $150 million, the women’s attorney announced this week. Hugolina Guerrero de Garzon and Joselin Damian Gonzalez were two of three employee who were working in the restaurant’s kitchen August 1 when the floor collapsed around 6:30 p.m, …

News Sep 14, 2016

William Paterson Student Committed Suicide Following Failed Rape Probe, Lawsuit Alleges

A mother alleges in a recently-filed lawsuit that her daughter committed suicide at William Paterson University after school officials failed to report and fully investigate the young woman’s alleged rape last year, NJ.com reported. Cherelle Jovanna Locklear, 21, hung herself in her dorm room bathroom in November 2015, according to the lawsuit her mother, Marquessa C. Jackson- …

Legal News Sep 7, 2016

Back Pay Lawsuit Against Lincare, Alpha Will ‘Proceed on a Class-Wide Basis’

A federal court has ruled that a lawsuit filed on behalf of non-exempt hourly employees working in California for Alpha Respiratory Inc. and Lincare Inc. should be able to proceed as a class action. The lawsuit seeks payment of back overtime wages and premiums for alleged missed meal breaks. Lincare, through head of public affairs Jeanne Forbis, pointed out that no actual ruling has …

News Sep 7, 2016

Lawsuit Filed Against Noodles & Company Over Credit Card Breach

Several banks and other financial institutions are alleging the Broomfield-based Noodles & Company failed to take steps to prevent a massive data breach earlier this year. A class-action federal lawsuit was filed Tuesday against the fast-casual chain relating to the breach. Noodles officials warned customers in May that their credit card processor reported unusual activity …

Class-Actions Sep 1, 2016

Lawsuit Involving 600 Yakima Valley Farm Workers to Proceed as Class Action

A federal lawsuit affecting over 600 Yakima Valley farm workers will head to trial. A news release from Columbia Legal Services said the lawsuit originally filed in 2014 says that Mercer Canyons out of Alderdale, Washington failed to inform previous local employees about higher paying jobs. Mercer Canyons, one of the largest fruit and vegetable growers in the state applied for a …

News Aug 29, 2016

Schoolboy Who Got His Teacher Pregnant Wins £4m Payout After He Sued School Authority

A STUDENT who slept with his teacher and was even in the birthing suite when she delivered their child has been awarded £4 million in damages in California. The former high school student was paid the seven-figure in one of the largest single-victim sex abuse settlements by a public agency after telling the court he felt “physically” ill when reflecting on how his former teacher Laura …

Lawsuits Aug 10, 2016

Lawsuit Over Audits Seeks $5.5B From PricewaterhouseCoopers

Accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers squared off Tuesday in court with lawyers for a defunct mortgage company’s creditors and investors over a $5.5 billion lawsuit, which claimed the Big Four firm failed through years of audits to uncover massive fraud at a failed Alabama bank. The estimated $21 billion fraud at Colonial Bank of Montgomery, Alabama, was orchestrated by top executives at the …

News Jul 1, 2016

Lawsuit: Attendant in Wrong Fuel Crash Had History of Drug Use

Newly filed court documents are providing shocking developments in a wrongful death case against a Felts Field aviation company. Michael Clements, 61, from Alberta was on his way to California and stopped at Felts Field to refuel. His plane crashed shortly after takeoff near Spokane’s Hamilton Street overpass.

Settlements May 23, 2016

Medical Malpractice Lawsuit in Joan Rivers’ Death Settled

The family of comedian Joan Rivers, who died days after undergoing a routine endoscopy at a New York City clinic, has settled a medical malpractice lawsuit against the facility, the family’s attorneys said Thursday. The 81-year-old comedian and star of the show “Fashion Police” on E! died Sept. 4, 2014, days after she went in for a routine procedure at Yorkville Endoscopy on Manhattan’s Upper …