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May 28, 2026
A Texas appellate court has dismissed a medical malpractice suit against a physician accused of leaving a catheter wire in a patient's leg, ruling that the plaintiff's expert report failure to properly identify the applicable standard of care didn't pass muster under the state's healthcare liability law.
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May 28, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court's green light of negligent hiring claims against freight brokers in highway crash cases and an adverse verdict against Uber in the sexual assault multidistrict litigation lead Law360's Injury Law Roundup.
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May 28, 2026
A New Jersey state judge denied a motion to sanction the Catholic order behind an elite prep school over claims it concealed investigative reports during years of clergy sex abuse litigation, ruling that the request from a former student was improper because a final judgment had already been entered.
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May 28, 2026
The insurer for a Washington, D.C., property owner must defend a property management company against an underlying suit claiming that its employee sexually assaulted a tenant, a Maryland federal court ruled Thursday, letting the manager's carrier off the hook for coverage.
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May 28, 2026
The Fifth Circuit has denied an en banc rehearing of a worker's toxic tort suit against BP Exploration & Production over prostate cancer he alleges he developed because of exposure to crude oil during cleanup of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill.
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May 28, 2026
Camp Mystic in Texas' Hill Country should be sanctioned over "bad faith" conduct in litigation over flooding deaths last summer, including purported misrepresentations to courts and regulators and an alleged remark by one of its attorneys to a plaintiffs' lawyer that he would "burn in hell," a state court has been told.
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May 28, 2026
The Cincinnati Insurance Co. urged a Virginia federal court to declare that policy terms mean it has no duty to cover a Richmond ballet organization in underlying litigation seeking more than $40 million in damages over claims the group perpetuated a culture of starvation, overtraining and exploitation.
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May 28, 2026
An Oklahoma jury has cleared Johnson & Johnson in a suit from a woman who alleged that she contracted mesothelioma because she was exposed to asbestos-containing talc products made by the company and its affiliates.
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May 27, 2026
A California federal judge laid out plans during a hearing Wednesday to empanel an eight-member advisory jury panel in August to help her decide claims from state attorneys general against Meta Platforms Inc. in multidistrict social-media-addiction litigation, while expressing concerns that the states haven't disclosed their specific damages demands yet.
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May 27, 2026
Counsel for a class of Oregon property owners asked an appeals court Tuesday to disqualify the judge who authored a decision overturning classwide liability against PacifiCorp for wildfire damage, saying the judge's alleged work for the utility in prior private practice would cause a reasonable person to question her impartiality.
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May 27, 2026
Gaming and chat platform Roblox, the subject of multiple lawsuits accusing it of harming minors with addictive design features that expose them to online abuse, is now facing an investigation by the Connecticut attorney general.
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May 27, 2026
A Florida state judge has handed Walmart, Walgreens and CVS a win in a fight with hospitals over treatment of opioid-addicted patients, finding the hospitals cannot recover damages under state racketeering law because their injuries are indirect.
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May 27, 2026
Matthew Perry's former assistant was sentenced to 41 months in prison Wednesday by a California federal judge for his role in the actor's fatal ketamine overdose, delivering the sentence shortly after Perry's stepfather, Keith Morrison of "Dateline," chastised the defendant for not notifying the family Perry's addiction struggles had returned.
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May 27, 2026
A Florida federal judge has adopted a magistrate's recommendation denying arbitration for Royal Caribbean in a suit alleging a now-former employee secretly filmed passengers after placing hidden cameras in their rooms.
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May 27, 2026
The Supreme Court of New Jersey revived a woman's suit alleging she suffered serious eye injuries because of a defect in Allergan USA Inc.'s product Ozurdex, ruling Wednesday that the trial court failed to conduct the gatekeeping inquiry required when there is a dispute over the reliability of expert testimony.
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May 27, 2026
A high-frequency stock trading firm is asking a Delaware bankruptcy judge to make it the latest defendant dismissed from a bid by Mallinckrodt PLC to recover $1.6 billion paid for stock buybacks before the opioid distributor's bankruptcy.
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May 27, 2026
A Georgia appeals panel has ordered a new trial for a woman who was injured when her stopped vehicle was struck by a speeding Ford F-150 truck on a Georgia highway, finding that the jury was improperly instructed on the "sudden emergency" doctrine.
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May 27, 2026
The family of a motorcyclist killed while riding down a Northampton County, Pennsylvania, road is seeking to hold FirstEnergy Corp., Frontier Communications and Verizon liable for low-hanging wires they say caused his death.
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May 27, 2026
A proposed class of Roundup users is urging a Missouri federal court to send their $7.25 billion settlement with Monsanto back to state court, calling the "frivolous" removal by objectors a "sham" that can't stand up in the face of court rules and the law.
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May 27, 2026
World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. investors won sanctions in the Delaware Chancery Court after a judge found former CEO Vince McMahon and other senior executives recklessly allowed encrypted and ephemeral Signal messages and other evidence tied to WWE's $21.4 billion merger with Ultimate Fighting Championship to disappear during litigation over the deal.
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May 27, 2026
A North Carolina federal judge has given an initial seal of approval to a settlement placing limitations on the state's use of solitary confinement in juvenile detention facilities, resolving a class action that claimed the practice was unconstitutional.
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May 27, 2026
Toyota has settled a lawsuit over the fatal carbon monoxide poisoning of a man who accidentally left his 2017 Tacoma running in his attached garage, just before trial was set to start on his wife's claims that buyers weren't warned about risks associated with the truck's keyless ignition system.
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May 26, 2026
Three individuals are seeking to hold Sunbeam Products Inc. and its parent company liable for serious burn injuries caused by exploding pressure cooker lids, telling a Florida federal jury Tuesday that the company continued selling a defective product without alerting the public.
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May 26, 2026
A Connecticut towing company is on the hook for an additional $8 million after a state court judge found that a co-defendant's portion of a $45 million award to a paralyzed motorcyclist is uncollectible.
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May 26, 2026
The Third Circuit on Tuesday scolded a Pennsylvania federal judge for his "inappropriate attempted witticisms" while presiding over a lawsuit in which a parent blamed transportation companies for the deaths of his two children in a highway collision, saying the judge's "ill-conceived attempts at levity" in a fatal injury case could be misinterpreted by the public.