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On Aug. 9, 2011, plaintiffs Jared Adkins and his 11-year-old son C.A. were paying passengers aboard a 46-foot diving boat named Big Dipper, which provided transportation to scuba diving sites. Plaintiffs were in the water swimming off the stern of the...

American Pop Corn Company, ConAgra Foods, Inc. and General Mills, Inc. (collectively the popcorn defendants) manufactured and sold microwave popcorn containing butter flavored products and other products containing diacetyl and/or pentanedione. Givaudan...

Since at least 1999, a number of flexible polyurethane foam manufacturers had engaged in an alleged conspiracy to fix the price of the product and allocate customers. In February 2010, Vitafoam, which was one of the polyurethane foam manufacturers, entered...

Beginning in March of 2007, SCANA Energy Marketing, Inc., a seller of natural gas, allegedly charged existing customers enrolled in certain rate plans more than the published rate filed by SCANA with the Georgia Public Service Commission for the plan...

George John Bussanich, Sr. was a member, Chief Executive Officer and President of Metropolitan Ambulatory Surgical Center LLC (MASC), a holding company for the managing of medical clinics owned by Bussanich, Sr. and the funding of certain businesses....

For about 40 years, Tod Curtis owned and operated the Ye Olde Town Inn (YOTI) restaurant and bar on W. Busse Avenue in Mount Prospect, Illinois. Curtis was the sole beneficial owner of the property with the power of direction of Trust No. 10510 and the...

On Feb. 1, 2009, L.S. suffered a closed head injury in a motor vehicle collision. Shortly thereafter, she began treating with Jonathan Fellus, M.D., a neurologist. For a five-month period spanning 2008 and 2009, L.S. and Dr. Fellus had a sexual relationship...

Around 2010, Shippers Transport Express, Inc. began a program in which it leased trucks to its workforce of California port truck drivers. Shippers classified the drivers as independent contractors instead of employees. Grayling Taylor and Bruce Brown...

Plaintiff Columbia Riverkeeper filed a civil action on Aug. 26, 2013, seeking judicial relief compelling defendant U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to comply with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C.S. $ S 552, as amended, with...

On Nov. 26, 2012, Jesse Ventura a/k/a James G. Janos filed an action against Chris Kyle in the Minnesota District Court for the Fourth Judicial District, Hennepin County. Through the complaint, Ventura stated that he was a military veteran who had served...

Diane Albright had surgery on March 9, 2010, to correct a cystocele or bladder prolapse. She stated that a Pinnacle pelvic floor repair kit designed and manufactured by Boston Scientific Corporation (d/b/a Mansfield Scientific, Inc. and Microvasive, Inc...

On Nov. 14, 2012, 45-year-old Dawn Andalora filed an amended complaint in the Superior Court, Judicial District of Windham at Windham, Connecticut against Joseph Falanga. Andalora alleged that from 1974 to 1979, when she was a minor, Falanga engaged in...

On Sept. 30, 2013, 31-year-old Tyler Lee was working on a construction site in Houston, TX, where his employer was in the process of building a large building. Berkel & Company Contractors, Inc. was hired to drill the auger cast pilings. A Berkel...

On July 31, 2011, plaintiff Erin Joynt, was sunbathing on the beach in Daytona Beach Shores, while her husband and two children were by the water looking for seashells. Thomas Moderie, a Volusia County Beach Services lifeguard, was driving a motor vehicle...

On Jan. 22, 2010, Megan Berry was injured in a motor vehicle accident that occurred when Spencer Owens, a 16-year-old with a provisional driver's license, ran a red light and smashed his car into Berry's vehicle. Following the collision, Berry...

On July 26, 2011, plaintiff Miami-Dade College (MDC) entered into a written contract with defendant Ajax Building Corporation to design and build a parking garage on the west campus of MDC. Ajax subcontracted with defendant M.A.R. Contracting, Inc. to...

On Feb. 10, 2012, 31-year-old veteran, plaintiff Joshua Kent Culwell, was travelling north on Alabama Highway 69 in Cullman County, AL. When he slowed to make a right turn onto Schaffel Road, he was rear-ended by Thomas Clay Benson, II, an underinsured...

At approximately 10:23 p.m. on March 1, 2009, Valerie Hurley, 25 years old, was taken to the emergency room at St. Mary's Medical Center North complaining of nausea, vomiting and syncope. She was found to have low blood pressure and complained of...

Since 1998, Examsoft Worldwide provided software that allowed exam takers to use their own computers to take their exams, while maintaining testing integrity for test administrators. The software sold by ExamSoft included legal bar exam testing packets...

In 2005, Ellen T. Kander came under the care of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside for diagnosis and treatment of recurrent idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, a blood disorder Ellen was first diagnosed with...

On Aug. 9, 2012, Maria Mangano suffered a serious injury when she slipped and fell at Mercy Vocational High School in Philadelphia, PA. At that time, the high school was undergoing construction and repairs. The general contractor for the construction...

From July 3, 1985 to March 31, 2010, Marcia Eisenhour worked for Weber County, lastly as the court administrator for the Weber County Justice Court. Craig D. Storey, a Justice Court judge and Eisenhour's supervisor, allegedly sexually harassed Eisenhour...

On Dec. 30, 2011, Carlos Martinez and his wife, Rosita de los Santos de Martinez, filed a product liability action in the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas for Philadelphia County. The Martinez plaintiffs named the following as defendants: Honda Motor...

Sandra S. Robertson alleged that on June 5, 2006, she began work as a traffic clerk, and later, a shipping supervisor, for Hunter Panels, LLC and Carlisle Construction Materials, Inc. (defendants). Robertson claimed that she was subjected to harassment...

On Jan. 19, 2011, Southern California Gas Company and Sempra Energy (collectively SCGC) arrived at property in San Gabriel, CA, to service the gas system in response to a call that the dwelling's heater was not receiving natural gas. During servicing...