The owner of a commercial nursery has won a $1.2 million judgment against the Florida Department of Agriculture in the latest verdict against the state agency for destroying citrus trees in the 2000s during an attempt to stop the spread …
A Connecticut casino and resort operator has lost its bid to obtain insurance reimbursement for business losses due to the COVID-19 virus. Factory Mutual Insurance Co. (FMI) has succeeded in having the resort’s COVID-19 suit against it dismissed. The Mohegan …
The U.S. Justice Department is opening a “pattern-or-practice” investigation into the Louisiana State Police amid mounting evidence that the agency has looked the other way in the face of beatings of mostly Black men, including the deadly 2019 arrest of …
No injuries were reported Wednesday after what police initially described as an explosion at a liquefied natural gas terminal in Southeast Texas. Freeport LNG reported that “an incident” occurred around 11:40 a.m. at its facility in Quintana along the Texas …
Baumann Farms LLP, a major agricultural company in central Wisconsin, will pay $180,812.50 and provide other significant relief to settle a sexual harassment, retaliation, and national origin discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency …
A Meijer distribution center in western Ohio was heavily damaged Wednesday evening as employees inside heeded tornado warnings and sought shelter, authorities said. Joel Smith, director of the Miami County Emergency Management Agency, said nobody was injured at the facility …
A federal lawsuit against Ford Motor Co. and other manufacturers of auto parts that contained asbestos is proceeding, after a judge in North Carolina rejected arguments that a mechanic should have known of the dangers of asbestos. Mesothelioma.net, an advocacy …
The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District has affirmed a $5.2 million judgment against Geico in a case involving a Jackson County woman who contracted anogenital human papillomavirus (HPV) during sexual encounters in a car insured by the company. Geico …
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has affirmed a district court’s dismissal of federal actions in a lawsuit that Applied Underwriters and the California Insurance Co. filed against the California Department of Insurance. This is the latest …
Pacific Gas & Electric this week pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter and other charges it faces after its equipment sparked a wildfire that killed four people and destroyed hundreds of homes in Northern California two years ago, prosecutors announced. …