Zainey NEW ORLEANS - A seaman has filed a lawsuit seeking more than $5 million claiming that he suffered disabling spinal injuries when a ladder fell on top of him.
NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans city employees have filed a class action that accuses the city of not correctly calculating their overtime wages by including educational incentive pay.
Salim NEW ORLEANS - Claiming she suffered from internal bleeding after ingesting the prescription drug Padaxa, a Louisiana woman has filed a lawsuit against the drug manufacturers for not warning of the drug's side effects.
NEW ORLEANS - After slipping and falling down a flight of steps causing a serious back injury, a seaman has filed a lawsuit against his employer for $1.25 million claiming that the steps needed a non-skid surface.
NEW ORLEANS - After her employment contract was not renewed, a Lebanese librarian has filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against her former employer, a Jefferson Parish Catholic school.
Lee Hall NEW ORLEANS - Several environmental groups have filed a lawsuit against the EPA after the agency allegedly failed to approve a petition to lower pollution into the Mississippi River Basin and the northern Gulf of Mexico.
Ervin Knott NEW ORLEANS - A New Orleans psychologist has filed a lawsuit against a Florida doctor for negative comments posted on the website Angie's List.
NEW ORLEANS - The wife of a deceased Mexican national has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against her husband's employer claiming that the company denied her husband medical care while he was having a heart attack.
Price NEW ORLEANS - After being diagnosed with Crohn's Disease, an Assumption Parish resident has filed a lawsuit against a local doctor for prescribing an acne medication that he claims caused the disease.
Huffman A safety trainer working in the energy industry is suing his employer for violating federal regulations by allegedly failing to pay overtime wages.
A New York debt collection agency is being sued for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by threatening to sue a Houma woman when it did not intend to do so.
An employee of the Recovery School District has filed a disability discrimination lawsuit claiming that she was fired because she was undergoing medical treatment for job-related injuries.