Liability

A woman claims **Corinthian Colleges dba **Ashmead College illegally accepted a sex offender into its massage therapy program, providing him the opportunity to sexually assault her during a “complimentary” massage, in King County Court, Seattle.           In separate complaints, 32 plaintiffs demand $5 million apiece from Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC fka Garlock Inc. , claiming they got asbestosis and other lung diseases from workplace exposure to insulation, cement and other products. They also sue **Owens-Illinois Inc., General Electric Co., Rapid American Corp., and Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. , in St. Paul Federal Court.       Big Brothers and Sisters of Summit and Medina Counties and Big Brothers and Sisters of America allowed their volunteer Richard Mansfield to sexually molest a boy for seven years, the boy’s mother claims in Summit County Court, Akron.       **Ralph Wiese , a minister for co-defendant **The Salvation Army , sexually assaulted a boy on a trip to a “Bible Bowl” competition, and afterward, the boy claims in King County Court, Seattle.           A Boeing-Vertiol helicopter crashed because of defendants’ defective speed-trim actuator, Columbia Helicopters claims in a complaint in B.C. Supreme Court, Vancouver, against Honeywell International, Newark Electronics Corp., Newark Corp., C&K Components, and ITT Corp.            The **Estate of Larry Demond Johnson  claims that if **The Kroger Co. had not negligently hired co-defendant Raymall Rivers , and failed to warn Johnson of Rivers’ history of violence, Rivers would not have shot Johnson to death after an argument, in Jefferson County Court, Louisville.