An Iowa turkey processing plant and accused of abusing and underpaying several mentally disabled men should pay $1.7 million to its former workers, according to a settlement proposed by U.S. Department of Labor. The proposal was filed last week as …
A Texas produce company is voluntarily recalling curly parsley and cilantro after confirmation from regulators of a positive test for salmonella on curly parsley in Quebec and cilantro in Detroit. Edinburg, Texas-based J&D Produce Inc. says it’s recalling those two …
A food service company has filed a lawsuit against a consortium of Iowa school districts and another food service company, accusing them of fixing prices and rigging bids. The publicly funded Iowa Educators Consortium was created by the state’s Area …
Toyota has agreed to pay $10 million to settle legal claims from the family of a California state trooper and three relatives whose fatal car wreck helped spark the automaker’s wide-ranging safety recall, lawyers said Thursday. The family’s lawsuit, filed …
The Ohio Supreme Court says a university’s insurance coverage extended to a charter bus that crashed, killing five student baseball players and two others. The 5-2 ruling issued Dec. 28 is a victory for families and crash survivors that have …
The family of a 39-year-old man who was fatally shot by three Sterling Heights police officers is suing the Detroit suburb. A civil lawsuit filed by Matthew Moroni’s family in U.S. District Court in Detroit claims officers “unlawfully discharged their …
Inspectors are investigating the cause of an accident at a Prenter mine that sent four coal miners to the hospital. A spokesperson for the West Virginia Department of Commerce told the Register-Herald of Beckley that an axle on a transport …
Allstate has filed its seventh lawsuit this year against what it says are medical corporations committing fraud in New York State. The $1.9 million suit claims that three medical corporations in the state were owned and operated by non-physicians who …
The Federal Aviation Administration is proposing changes to midair-collision warning devices on U.S. aircraft after discovering a safety problem on a test flight. The FAA, in a notice in the Federal Register, said it is proposing to mandate software upgrades …
Temperatures in Florida’s citrus growing zones were several degrees warmer Wednesday, the National Weather Service said, giving growers some respite after a freezing snap Tuesday that caused fruit damage. “It is generally several degrees warmer than it was yesterday. I …