Pleading

Recording telephone conversations with consumers without their consent has landed Banco Santander's U.S. auto-financing arm in a proposed class action suit in California federal court.

One of the irate passengers trapped aboard the crippled Carnival Triumph for four days following an engine fire filed the first lawsuit against the cruise company and is seeking unspecified damages.

The federal judge overseeing the Zimmer NexGen Knee Implant MDL denied the company’s motion to bar one of the more than 800 cases filed against the medical device maker from joining a list of potential bellwether cases in the consolidated litigation.

A new study seeks the answer to the question of whether it will be considered retaliation if a whistleblower’s identity and actions become the subject of a widely distributed e-mail.

In a surprise move, the plaintiff in the first of more than 10,000 lawsuits filed against Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy subsidiary over allegedly faulty hip implants dropped her claims that the device left h