The Navy has settled a lawsuit filed by a female engineer against Puget Sound Naval Shipyard alleging she had been harassed and discriminated against, with the Navy agreeing to pay $144,000, apologize to the woman and institute enhanced training for shipyard managers. The Navy admitted no wrongdoing as part of the agreement in the suit filed in July 2015 by Vena Ward, but her …
An attorney for Homeless Angels said she plans to file a motion asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed against the group by the owner of a south Lansing hotel where the nonprofit once housed Lansing-area homeless families and individuals. Attorney Denise LaFave Smith, who represents the nonprofit, said it has limited financial resources and no intention of …
A former Citigroup Inc financial adviser on Monday filed a lawsuit accusing the bank of running a “boys’ club” that favored men over women, treating her as a “glorified secretary,” and firing her in retaliation for whistleblowing activity. Erin Daly is seeking double back pay, unpaid bonuses and punitive damages over the bank’s alleged harassment, hostile …
A UnitedHealth Group Inc. plan participant has filed suit against the insurance company for allegedly overcharging for prescription drugs after New Orleans television station Fox 8 revealed the findings of its investigations into prescription drug costs. In a segment entitled “Medical Wa$te,” Fox 8’s Lee Zurick investigated the “rising costs of prescription meds and questionable …
Wells Fargo & Co. enriched itself at its employees’ expense by including costly, in-house target date funds in its 401(k) plan, a new class action complaint alleges ( Meiners v. Wells Fargo & Co. , D. Minn., No. 0:16-cv-03981, complaint filed 11/22/16 ). In the past year, several proposed class actions have targeted financial companies that include in-house investment products in …
Police in a Twin Cities suburb are going to court over the city’s body camera policy for officers. The unions representing 38 officers and eight sergeants in Maplewood say parts of the policy should have been developed through collective bargaining instead of being imposed by the city. The law approved last spring by the state Legislature requires police departments …
A lawsuit against William Paterson University over how it handled the case of five students accused raping another student can go forward, a federal judge ruled. A Passaic County grand jury in January 2015 declined to indict the five men, all 18-year-old freshmen at the time, on charges filed by campus police alleging they sexually assaulted and kidnapped another student. Two of the students, …
Residents of a town hit by Oklahoma’s worst earthquake have filed a class-action lawsuit against dozens of energy companies, accusing them of triggering dozens of temblors by injecting wastewater from oil and gas production underground. Pawnee residents filed the suit Thursday against at least 27 …
Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Lannett Company, Inc. (“Lannett” or the “Company”) (NYSE: LCI ) and certain of its officers. The class action, filed in United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons or entities who purchased Lannett securities …
Another motion filed by the manufacturer stated that Toyota disputes the accusations but found the agreement a reasonable and fair way to end the controversy. Toyota has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit and pay approximately USD 3.4 billion to owners of trucks and SUVs in the United States who complained that their vehicles …