Consumer Lawsuits

Meta Platforms reached a $37.5 million settlement in its lawsuit over accusations the company violated users' privacy by tracking users via their smartphones without permission.

Rappers Timbaland and Swizz Beatz filed a lawsuit against video platform Triller for $28 million over the sale of their popular web series.

T-Mobile is paying $350 million to settle lawsuits surrounding a data breach that affected more than 76 million customers.

Regions Financial has been accused in a lawsuit of allegedly overcharging fees and mismanaging a trust.

Mars Inc has been sued by a consumer who claims that Skittles are unfit to eat because they contain a known toxin that the company had pledged to phase out.

Rideshare company Uber has been hit with a class action lawsuit involving hundreds of women who claim they were attacked by drivers due to lax security.

Allergan and Teva, two popular opioid distributers, have agreed to pay $54 million in cash and overdose reversal drugs to settle a federal lawsuit.

The US Supreme Court did not address Bayer's appeal to dismiss customer legal claims that its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, hinting that justices might hear it.

A Muslim family is seeking monetary damages from McDonalds after they claim the fast-food workers intentionally put bacon in a sandwich the mother had ordered for her children.

A lawsuit against Apple states a Texas child suffered hearing loss from using the company's AirPods in the middle of an Amber Alert.

The family of a child killed attempting a social media "blackout challenge" is suing social media app TikTok. The challenge is to choke oneself long enough to lose consciousness.

Back in November, a jury in U.S. District Judge Dan Polster’s courtroom sided with the counties and agreed that the way the pharmacies dispensed pain medication played an outsized role in creating a public nuisance.

A former Mississippi pharmacist was sentenced on Tuesday to 10 years in prison for a healthcare fraud that resulted in more than $180 million in false billings being submitted to private insurers and the federal TRICARE program for military service members, of which more than $50 million was paid out by the government.

A New Jersey man and his wife are suing Dunkin' for serving coffee they say caused him permanent injury.

California appeals court has ruled that Johnson & Johnson must pay penalties after deceptively marketing mesh implants for women.

Members of the Sackler family who own Purdue Pharma LP and grew wealthy from sales of OxyContin agreed to pay up to $6 billion to settle lawsuits accusing them of helping fuel the opioid-addiction epidemic, earning the unanimous support of state attorneys general to resolve the family’s liability and end the drugmaker’s bankruptcy case.

Google is facing a lawsuit headache after Utah also filed a lawsuit claiming the tech giant had engaged in antitrust practices with Facebook.

A Tennessee jury has ordered Cracker Barrel, a Southern fare restaurant chain, to pay $9.4 million in damages after staff served a customer hand sanitizer instead of water in 2014.

A federal judge should reject a sweeping settlement to thousands of lawsuits against OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, a group of states said at a hearing Tuesday, arguing that the protections it extends to members of the Sackler family who own the firm are improper.

Car rental company Hertz faces a lawsuit from over 100 customers who claim that police arrested them after the company falsely reported the rented vehicles as stolen.