Litigation/Liability Trends
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Meta Ordered to Pay $375M After Trial Over Child Exploitation, User Safety
A New Mexico jury on Tuesday found Meta Platforms violated state law in a lawsuit brought by the state attorney general, who accused the company of misleading users about the ...
Median Securities Class Action Settlement Hits 29-Year High
Despite fewer securities class action settlements, the median settlement amount reached its highest level in nearly three decades last year, according to Cornerstone Research. The median settlement ...