LAWSUITS NEWS & LEGAL INFORMATION

Sacramento, CA California has become the nation’s employment law trendsetter. California Legislature passed, and Gov. Gavin Newsom signed, a number of new or amended California employment laws that take effect January 2024 that could impact the business and the culture of the workplace. And they can make a difference to Californians’ lives, from cannabis users to employees who have suffered a “reproductive loss event”, from miscarriage to failed adoption.  Read More

Seattle, WA In Wilmuth v. Amazon, three professional research team leaders filed a proposed class and collective lawsuit against Amazon.com, Inc. for its established practice of paying women less than men for similar work. It’s the usual gross, dreary, demeaning stuff that women deal with at work. But the Amazon researchers also claim that the company retaliated against them for raising the issue of gender pay discrimination. The retaliation they describe may amount to a form of wrongful termination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Read More

Philadelphia, PA After Bayer lost the last four Roundup trials--breaking its nine-trial winning streak, the outcome of the trial underway in Philadelphia is crucial to its investors, and to about 50,000 Roundup lawsuits it currently faces. Bayer likely rues the day in 2018 when it bought Monsanto for $63 billion. Read More

Santa Clara, CA Bayada Home Health Care agreed to settle for $700,000 a minimum wage and overtime lawsuit brought by a group of client service managers. The home health care provider told a New Jersey federal court that the settlement finally puts an end to six years of litigation and the workers concurred, saying that the 63 workers could lose out on any recovery should the case continue – a case that has already gone to trial once. Read More

Jacksonville, N.C November has been a big month for Camp Lejeune attorneys. Litigation is on track – literally. Discovery is divided into two tracks of five illnesses each and the first lawsuits are slated for 2024. The first government settlements have finally been accepted and Reuters reported an unpublished study finding elevated Camp Lejeune cancer rates at the U.S. military base, which could result in even more Camp Lejeune lawsuits. Read More

Atlanta, GA Since attorney Kirk Pope filed in federal court an Exactech class-action lawsuit against the orthopedic device manufacturer alleging its hip implant is defective, his civil litigation law firm Pope McGlamry is working with more clients who have had their Exactech hip recalled. “I have several clients who needed revision surgery—they have suffered terribly due to Exactech’s failure,” says attorney Pope. Their defective hip implant lawsuits claim that the Exactech implant used during a routine total hip arthroplasty surgery was defectively designed, manufactured, marketed, and sold by Exactech. Read More

Santa Clara, CA Pressure cooker retailers and distributors are literally under pressure to settle defective pressure cooker lawsuits. “We have successfully gone after the retailers and distributors here in the U.S. because the manufacturers in China are hard to reach,” says attorney Kirk Pope at Pope McGlamry law firm. “They all settle out of court, and most of them very quickly. Not one of our pressure cooker lawsuits has gone to trial, mainly because the defendants don’t want to expose the issue.” Read More