Nearly a year has passed since the Legislature enacted SB 6, which extends liability protections to health care providers and businesses from lawsuits related to COVID-19. Has the bill been successful in its policy objective to prevent a wave of litigation in Texas courts, primarily health care liability, premises liability, and employer-employee claims?
LUFKIN — Big Tex Trailers is facing a suit alleging it paid female store managers less than its male managers and required the females to perform multiple job duties.
LUFKIN — A man is suing the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas after the tribe claims the personal injury he suffered at their casino is not under tribe law.
LUFKIN — A Houston woman who used the weed-killer Roundup for residential use for 16 years is suing Monsanto after being diagnosed with a form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in her bladder, lymph nodes and bone marrow.
LUFKIN — A Texas woman is claiming a third-party debt-collection agency "bombarded" her with student loan debt-collection calls on her cell phone as well as called her husband and his former wife in attempts to collect.
LUFKIN — A Lufkin woman who suffered a severe leg fracture while working at the Burke Center is alleging that she was not given reasonable accommodation upon her return to work and that her employer said the injuries were caused by her own carelessness.
LUFKIN – Richard L. Tate of the law firm Tate Moerer & King, LLP in Richmond has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a former Stephen F. Austin State University student athlete who accuses the East Texas school of conducting an unfair investigation into sexual assault allegations against him.
LUFKIN – An East Texas woman claims that a North Carolina-based home improvement retail company wrongfully terminated her because of her race and gender.
LUFKIN – An East Texas county is the target of a federal civil rights lawsuit from a 19-year-old mentally challenged male who claims he was physically and sexually assaulted while in custody more than a year ago.
LUFKIN – The former head women’s basketball coach of a historically black liberal arts college in East Texas asserts the school terminated her after she pushed back against hostile work environment.
LUFKIN – A female Jack-in-the-Box employee in Jasper claims she faced a hostile work environment when a sexually explicit video allegedly featuring her and an ex-lover was circulated among her co-workers.
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