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Case ID: 4147 | Miscellaneous | 01/10/2005
A class action lawsuit has been filed against Caesars Entertainment, owners of the Las Vegas Flamingo Hotel, over a Norovirus outbreak that sickened hundreds in late 2004. Attorneys for the plaintiffs contend that, even after it learned of the outbreak, the Flamingo Hotel failed to take reasonable measures to prevent the further spread of illness among its patrons and guests.
Recent accounts from guests seem to corroborate the theory. "We have been contacted by numerous people whose vacations were ruined because they became ill and were stuck in their hotel rooms or even worse, in the hospital, with a Norovirus infection," stated one plaintiff's attorney. "Two-thirds of the people who became ill were hotel workers. That suggests to me that the Flamingo did not have a policy for keeping ill workers at home." After a similar Norovirus outbreak in 1996, a Washoe County, Nevada, jury awarded $25.2 million in punitive damages to members of a class action lawsuit brought against the Reno Hilton and Park Place Entertainment. Punitive damages were awarded by the jury reportedly because they did not feel that the Reno Hilton had proper sick leave policies in place to discourage ill workers from coming to work while sick and that the hotel had had notice that its employees were working while ill. "It's not a labor relations issue. It's a public health issue, as a jury seemed to make evident in their punitive damages award in the Reno Hilton case," Stearns concluded. At Lawcash.com, it is our goal to keep you informed about important legal cases, class actions and settlements. Our lawyers offer free legal evaluations in tort cases, class actions, personal injury, and other lawsuits because we are dedicated to helping you resolve your legal complaints. Other Miscellaneous Cases of Interest When you stay at a hotel, you enter a legal contract with the business that runs the facility. On July 24, 2003, the court granted final approval to the parties' settlement in a nationwide class action filed against hotel management company John Q. Hammons Hotels, Inc. filed on behalf of U.S. residents who stayed in a hotel operated by the company between March 1, 2001, and August 31, 2001, and who paid an energy surcharge in addition to the normal room rate. The settlement provides for class members to receive a $15 discount off room rates per night between August 7, 2003, and February 7, 2004.
The court has dismissed the class-action lawsuit filed against transportation company Interpool, Inc. (Pink:IPLI)) and certain of its officers and directors by stockholders who purchased the company's common stock between March 27, 2001, and December 29, 2003. The actions claimed that the defendants violated federal securities laws by issuing a series of material misrepresentations to the market over this time period, thereby artificially inflating the price of the company's securities. Commercial customers of Florida Power & Light Company are finding that their power bills may be falling after installation of a new meter. A statewide class action has been filed against Florida Power & Light Company on behalf of commercial customers who allege that the company has been overcharging them for electric power by knowingly providing them with faulty thermal-demand meters. A Texas law firm filed a class-action lawsuit on October 6, 2005 against Sprint Nextel Corporation on behalf of thousands of landowners in the state.
The suit, filed in federal district court in Kansas, claims Sprint Nextel used exclusive electricity transmission towers to erect cellular phone antennae without obtaining approval from property owners. Las Vegas attorneys filed a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of hundreds of Vegas Grand condominium purchasers against the developers of the Vegas Grand condominiums, citing the developers unilaterally cancelled the purchasers' agreements in a letter April 25, 2005. The class action lawsuit was was expanded on May 27, 2005 by the filing of a First Amended Complaint, adding new legal theories to the case against developers of the Las Vegas property. A Jefferson County judge ruled that a class action suit may be filed over the Steubenville, Ohio traffic cameras. Judge David E. Henderson entered a "Certification as Class Action," which permits a class action lawsuit to proceed against the city of Steubenville and Traffipax, Inc. |
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