Litigation/Liability Trends
The 24-Hour Window: The Race to Keep Claims Out of Litigation
In insurance, the first 24 hours after a claim is filed are often the most important. It is the carrier's best opportunity to make a strong first impression, establish trust and help policyholders ...
U.S. Supreme Court Scales Back Roundup Cancer Lawsuits
The U.S. Supreme Court reined in thousands of lawsuits pursued in state courts accusing Bayer of failing to warn users that the active ingredient in its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, handing a ...
Amazon’s Ring Sued Over Facial Recognition Feature
Amazon was sued on Monday by a Virginia resident over what he said were privacy violations after the company's Ring doorbell cameras at friends and family members' homes collected and stored images ...
Workers’ Families, Other Parties Settle Baltimore Bridge Tragedy Claims
Just days before the civil trial on claims against the owner and operator of the cargo ship Dali was to begin, Grace Ocean and Synergy Marine settled wrongful death suits with the families of the six ...
NY Archdiocese Can Depose Chubb CEO Greenberg in Clergy Abuse Claims Case
The Archdiocese of New York (ADNY) has received the go-ahead to depose Chubb Insurance CEO Evan Greenberg in the ongoing legal dispute over liability insurance coverage for clergy sex abuse claims. ...
Snap, YouTube, TikTok Settle School Suit Targeting Social Media
Snap Inc., Google's YouTube and ByteDance Ltd.'s TikTok reached agreements to settle the first lawsuit headed to trial over claims that addiction to top social media platforms has disrupted learning ...
Wall Street Law Firm Apologizes for AI ‘Hallucinations’ in Court Filing
Sullivan & Cromwell, a premier Wall Street law firm, apologized to a federal judge for submitting a court filing with inaccurate citations and other errors generated by artificial intelligence. ...
Legal Analysis: Insurer Subrogation Rights Under Scrutiny
Two recent court decisions have addressed the issue of subrogation rights of insurance companies against upstream or downstream vendors that experience a data security breach: Axis Insurance Company ...