Uber and Lyft have agreed to pay $175 million to Massachusetts to resolve a four-year-old lawsuit accusing the rideshare companies of misclassifying drivers as independent contractors. The settlement follows similar deals the companies reached in other states, including a $328 million settlement with New York in 2023 and a $100…

Queens tenants left homeless after a contractor attempted to remove lead paint with a blowtorch have filed suit against one of New York City’s largest residential landlords. The complaint, filed by McLaughlin & Stern and Parlatore Law Group, alleges A&E Real Estate Holdings is grossly negligent for the blaze, which…

Phila. Jury Returns $68.5M Verdict Over Construction Worker’s Deadly Fall | The Legal Intelligencer Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/thelegalintelligencer/2024/06/28/phila-jury-returns-68-5m-verdict-over-construction-workers-deadly-fall/ Jeffrey Goodman, left, and Aidan Carickhoff, right, with Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky. Courtesy photos NEWS The plaintiffs’ target defendant sought to escape liability through “a corporate shell game designed to protect the developers,”…

A justice of the peace prevailed on appeal to the Texas Supreme Court, which ruled she has jurisdiction to sue the State Commission on Judicial Conduct to avoid possible future sanctions. Dianne Hensley, a justice of the peace in McLennan County, sued the commission Dec. 17, 2019 after it issued…

The Delaware Supreme Court has overturned a decision that invalidated the state’s permanent absentee and early voting laws, finding the plaintiffs didn’t have standing to bring their challenge. The court’s opinion reverses the judgment Superior Court Judge Mark H. Conner issued in favor of the plaintiffs, election inspector Michael Mennella and state senator…

The New York State Trial Lawyers Association and Greenberg Traurig’s lobbying arm remained big players among the Empire State’s record exchange of dollars influencing Albany lawmakers in 2023. As lobbying soared north of $360 million in New York in 2023, eclipsing the prior year’s standard of $331.5 million, NYSTLA was…