Claims / Legal
Bayer Prevails in FTC Dietary Supplement Contempt Case
Bayer AG prevailed in a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that accused the drugmaker's U.S. unit of making unsubstantiated claims about a dietary supplement marketed to promote ...
Typhoon Dujuan Lashes Taiwan, Disrupting Land and Air Traffic
Typhoon Dujuan lashed Taiwan with rain and wind Monday, disrupting land and air traffic and forcing offices, schools and financial markets to shut on Tuesday. The stock markets will be closed for all ...
Rig Contractor Transocean Linked to Petrobras Corruption Probe
Transocean Ltd., the world's largest offshore rig contractor, has been linked for the first time to the corruption probe of Petroleo Brasileiro SA, the state-owned energy giant at the center of ...
Sources: Volkswagen Managed Faked Emissions Test Results From Germany
Volkswagen AG executives in Germany controlled the key aspects of emissions tests whose results the carmaker now admits were faked, according to three people familiar with the company's U.S. ...
NSA Chief Questions Viability of Cyber-Weapons Treaty
Achieving a multinational arms-control treaty governing the use of cyber-weapons may be impossible because groups unaffiliated with governments wouldn't honor it, Admiral Michael Rogers, the director ...
Fitch: Medical Professional Liability Insurance Continues Downward Slide
Medical professional liability insurance for the U.S. property/casualty industry continued its years-long decline in 2014 in terms of net written premium volume, hammered by everything from worsening ...
Opinion: Putting a Price Tag on Volkswagen’s Emission-Fraud Liability
An $18 billion liability figure attached itself last Friday to Volkswagen's diesel disaster. This morning comes news that the German car maker has set aside $7.3 billion (€6.5 billion) to cover a ...
How Can We Be Friends? Reducing Friction Between Claims and Hired Counsel
Just like the old adage that oil and water don't mix, sometimes adjusters and their hired counsel don't see eye to eye. Whatever the cause, when adjusters and counsel don't get along, claims files ...