Litigation/Liability Trends
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 ...
AI for the Defense: Should Insurers or Law Firms Pay?
The idea that AI tools can help plaintiffs' lawyers to improve finely tuned litigation strategies that ultimately drive insurance company claims payouts is not new to Carrier Management readers. Nor ...
About to Take Off? Legal Fights Emerge Over Toxic Fumes on Flights
When passengers step onto an airplane, they're accustomed to turbulence, seat kicking and lengthy tarmac delays. Those are the predictable annoyances of air travel. But a far more serious risk to the ...
Meta, Google Lose Case Over Social Media Harm to Kids
A Los Angeles jury on Wednesday found Meta and Alphabet's Google negligent for designing social media platforms that are harmful to young people, in a $6 million verdict that will serve as a ...