lawsuit

A Kansas truck driver has filed a lawsuit against BNSF Railway Company (NYSE: BRK-B), alleging negligence, after his tractor-trailer collided with railcars after leaving a grain elevator near Greenfield, Missouri. Brandan Bunnel, a truck driver for Bunnel Trucking LLC of Colony, Kansas, filed suit...

A Minnesota-based trucking company has agreed to pay $22,500 to settle a federal lawsuit stemming from allegations it required a truck driver to pay fees to have his certified service dog ride in the truck with him. As part of the settlement, Transport America of Eagan, Minnesota, has also agreed...

Past violations of the Arms Export Control Act by Harris Corp. has resulted in a $13 million civil penalty for the newly formed aerospace and defense contractor L3Harris Technologies, the U.S. State Department said. According to the State Department, the 131 alleged violations of unauthorized...

Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) could be forced to pay millions of dollars for breaching a contract to ship coal to coal-fired power plants, a jury determined last week. A jury found on Sept. 17 that NSC didn't deliver coal supplied by Alabama-based Drummond Coal from the Shipyard...

A federal lawsuit filed last week in the Central District of California against Vista Equity Partners, a private equity firm with more than $50 billion of assets under management, alleged that Omnitracs, a leading telematics provider for the transportation and logistics industry, is in dire...

The U.S. Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said they reached an agreement in court with Hyundai Construction Equipment Americas and Hyundai Industries Co. Ltd. for the companies to pay a $47 million civil penalty for importing diesel engines that were not certified to...

Arkansas-based PKE Western Truck Leasing, Inc. filed a $37 million lawsuit against Rich Transport, LLC and its parent company, RoadRunner Transportation Systems (NYSE: RRTS), alleging breach of contract on August 7. According to the lawsuit filed in Pulaski County Circuit Court in Arkansas, PKE...

A federal jury ordered Swift Transportation to pay its trucking rival more than $15 million for allegedly poaching drivers who were under contract to CRST Expedited, which is based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. According to court documents filed in U.S. District Court in Iowa in March 2017, CRST claims...

Pilot Flying J has filed a civil lawsuit against Falcon Transport of Youngstown, Ohio, and its private equity owners, alleging the now-defunct carrier owes the truck stop chain nearly $800,000 in unpaid fuel bills. Pilot alleges that Falcon failed to pay its weekly fuel bill from April 11 to April...

A long-running lawsuit over leased vehicles appears to be reaching its conclusion. The lawsuit, Roberts, et al. v. C.R. England, Inc., et al, is scheduled for final approval by a judge on July 9, 2019, following a $37.8 million settlement that was reached last month in the class-action suit. The...

Earlier this year, German pharmaceutical company Bayer AG (OTC: BAYRY) announced its $60-million acquisition of Monsanto. The agrochemical company recently faced litigation tied to its weedkiller RoundUp. What Happened Bayer will cut roughly 12,000 jobs globally by the end...

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is defending a lawsuit dealing with the Apple Store consumers' ability to sue the company. A Supreme Court decision in the case could affect Apple's share price, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch.  The Analyst Analyst Wamsi Mohan maintained a...

In a discrimination lawsuit filed Friday, an African-American shopper said Macy’s (NYSE: M) security personnel stopped him after he bought a $2,400 Louis Vuitton bag and an alarm went off as he tried to exit the store. According to club promoter, Halim Sharif, he was detained and his bag...

Two recent news stories about Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) continued to unfold Thursday as company shares slid up to 5.3 percent in premarket trading. Closing price Wednesday was $55.57 per share. The first story, reported by Reuters late Wednesday, was that CEO Mark Zuckerberg and a number of banks...