A group of people who attended the Route 91 Harvest Festival have banded together to sue a manufacturer of firearm ‘bump stocks’. The perpetrator of the October 1st mass shooting in Las Vegas, Stephen Paddock, had amassed a considerable arsenal of weapons in his Mandalay Hotel suite. Several of Paddock’s semi-automatic rifles were equipped with
The City of San Diego agreed to pay $500,000 to trash truck drivers who say they were illegally denied pay while taking lunchbreaks. The class action suit was filed in 2014, after disgruntled drivers filed a complaint over what was then a standard practice – deducting a half hour’s pay from each shift. The 30-minute
Do you remember the “Fearless Girl” statue staring down the Charging Bull on Wall Street? Since it’s installment, “Fearless Girl” has stood as a symbol of female equality and empowerment, which is why some find it a bit ironic that the firm behind it, State Street, is set to “pay millions of dollars to women employees who say it treated them unfairly.” Some of the allegations, in particular, came from female employees who claim they were paid “less than their male counterparts.”
After being accused of discriminating against a pregnant employee, Polaris Guam, otherwise known as Verona Resort and Spa, has responded to a “lawsuit filed against them for pregnancy discrimination, denying the allegations and claiming the pregnant employee wasn’t fired but that she quit on her own.” The lawsuit against the resort was filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in District Court earlier this year on behalf of the “former employee who was allegedly fired because she was pregnant.” So what happened?
Pennsylvania Attorney General Goes After Navient’s Deceptive Student Loan Practices
A Nebraska doctor is facing a slew of malpractice lawsuits after being accused of repeatedly botching cosmetic surgeries. The Omaha-based physician, Dr. Gerard Stanley, Jr., is had seven complaints filed against him in August alone. In total, fourteen women have said coming under his scalpel has left them deformed. According to local news outlets, Stanley
Radiation Exposure Decades Ago to Blame for Illnesses, Veterans Claim
Family Doctor Botches Cosmetic Surgeries, Malpractice Lawsuits Filed
When most people go to the hospital for a surgery, the last thing they plan on is something bad happening. Most people trust their doctors to make the best decisions regarding their health and certainly trust them not to make any life-changing mistakes. Unfortunately for one Bluefield woman, a thyroidectomy performed in February 2014 resulted in an injury that prompted the woman to file a medical malpractice lawsuit against her doctor, Michael Covelli.
Complaints from within the New York Police Department suggest the nation’s largest law enforcement agency could have a problem with racial discrimination. In a lawsuit filed last week, three African-American men accused the NYPD’s intelligence division of discriminating against them. The complaint, as reported by The New York Times, hearkens back to a 2016 ruling