December 19, 2018
Two of the nation’s largest retailers and a third company are named in a New York lawsuit claiming the companies imported and sold children’s toys with lead levels up to 10 times higher than federal limits. New York Attorney General …
August 14, 2017
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has settled a lawsuit by two insurers that sought to avoid covering its multimillion-dollar payout to comedian Tracy Morgan for injuries he suffered in a 2014 crash involving one of the retailer’s trucks. U.S. District Judge Freda …
January 11, 2016
WalMart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, faces a lawsuit in Pennsylvania claiming store employees negligently allowed an underage, intoxicated customer to buy a box of bullets later used to commit three murders. The lawsuit, filed in Philadelphia by families …
August 12, 2015
The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday blamed a fatigued Wal-Mart truck driver for a highway crash last year that severely injured comedian Tracy Morgan and killed another comedian. However, the board also said the failure of Morgan and other …
February 20, 2015
A Wal-Mart driver involved in a highway crash that killed a comic and severely injured actor-comedian Tracy Morgan has asked a judge to reconsider her decision not to delay Morgan’s lawsuit against the company. Truck driver Kevin Roper isn’t a …
December 15, 2014
Tracy Morgan has won the latest round in his effort to sue Wal-Mart and others over a fatal crash in New Jersey. A federal judge on Friday refused to delay the lawsuit. The ruling came on a motion by Kevin …
October 1, 2014
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said it wants to settle a negligence lawsuit by actor-comedian Tracy Morgan, a day after blaming the celebrity for injuries he sustained when his limousine bus was struck by a speeding company truck. Morgan, 45, and two …
August 30, 2013
An eastern Nebraska man has sued Wal-Mart, saying the failure of an overfilled plastic shopping bag led to the death of his wife. The Lincoln Journal Star reports that the Sarpy County lawsuit filed by William Freis, of Plattsmouth, has …
July 30, 2013
A man who says his wife died after she ate a contaminated cantaloupe purchased at a Sheridan, Wyo., Walmart is suing the retailer. The Sheridan Press reports Frederick M. Lollar filed the wrongful death lawsuit in Laramie County’s 1st Judicial …
March 1, 2013
A Huntsville, Ala., woman says in a new lawsuit that she became ill after eating a moldy Mr. Goodbar candy bar that she claims was nine months beyond its expiration date. Al.com reports that Terrica Brown is suing Walmart and …