CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey's office has filed a lawsuit against Equifax alleging it ignored warnings to secure its system, failed to safeguard consumer information and stalled in notifying the public of a data breach that affected 148 million consumers nationwide.
CHARLESTON – A federal judge has granted a motion for summary judgment in favor of the defendant in a lawsuit against 21st Century Centennial Insurance Company for a car accident that caused injuries.
WASHINGTON – Judges on a national panel must decide whether to consolidate opioid suits of local governments and, if so, whether to send them to West Virginia, Illinois or Ohio.
CHARLESTON – Two lawsuits have been filed against Blackhawk Mining and one of its supervisors after the plaintiffs claim they were discriminated against. Rodney Robinette was employed by the defendants in June 2005 and on Dec. 14, 2014, he was advised he was being terminated as part of a companywide layoff, according to one of the complaints, which was filed in October in Boone Circuit Court and removed to federal court on Dec. 28.
HUNTINGTON – The City of Huntington has filed a lawsuit against three drug companies and a physician it claims fueled opioid epidemic within in the city and across the state.
HUNTINGTON – Several West Virginia counties are considering taking legal action against the drug wholesalers who shipped millions of painkillers into the state and fueled the opioid epidemic.
CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Attorney General’s Office, together with the state’s Departments of Health and Human Resources and Military Affairs and Public Safety, announced a $3.5 million settlement with H.D. Smith Wholesale Drug Co., pushing the total paid to West Virginia by 10 drug wholesalers to more than $11 million.
MADISON – Two more drug distributors are agreeing to settle claims against them in a lawsuit alleging they fueled the state’s opioid epidemic when they shipped large shipments of pain pills into the state over a period of several years.
MADISON – The West Virginia Attorney General’s Office has filed a lawsuit against a small-town pharmacy it alleges fueled the prescription painkiller crisis.
CHARLESTON —The state Attorney General, the state Department of Health and Human Resources and the state Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety, have reached combined settlements of $800,000 with three prescription drug wholesalers.
CHARLESTON – The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals ruled that Citibank did not waive its right to arbitration in a lawsuit seeking debt collection.
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey's office has announced combined settlements of nearly $3 million to resolve disputes with Kroger, CVS and Walgreens, pushing total settlements in the broader case past $7.8 million.
