East Palestine derailment settlement discussions may impact timeline for lawsuits

Norfolk Southern's East Palestine settlement clears legal hurdles, opening payment distribution channels in 2026.

Norfolk Southern's East Palestine settlement clears legal hurdles, opening payment distribution channels in 2026.

PFAS screening tools help manufacturers identify forever chemicals in packaging before regulations force costly recalls and litigation.

Supreme Court bars state lawsuits over glyphosate cancer claims, protecting manufacturers from 200,000 pending cases.

Hawaii can no longer criminally ban guns on private businesses after Supreme Court strikes down the state's firearm restrictions law.

Disney will pay $50 million to settle a class action lawsuit over mandatory ESPN bundling that raised streaming costs for subscribers.

A major Supreme Court decision has thrown Philadelphia's pesticide verdicts into legal uncertainty, with far-reaching implications for pending plaintiffs and settled claims.

Supreme Court blocks thousands of Roundup cancer lawsuits, siding with Bayer and federal regulators over state consumer protections.

Federal judges are throwing out thousands of herbicide injury claims on procedural and scientific grounds, often before trial.

Florida's environmental and business communities clash over PFAS cleanup liability and regulation, reshaping traditional political alliances.

A major law firm challenges another's fees in the Boy Scouts bankruptcy, leaving 14,600 claimants in limbo over their actual settlement payouts.