Litigation/Liability Trends
With Billions in Lawsuits From Fire Victims Pending, Shares of California Utility Tumble
Shares of PG&E Corp. plunged before the start of regular trading Monday after a judge ruled that a jury should determine whether it should pay as much as $18 billion in damages to wildfire ...
Apple Copyright Infringement Suit Seeks to Shut Down Correllium’s ‘Perfect’ iPhone Replicas
Apple Inc. accused upstart Corellium LLC of illegally selling virtual copies of the iPhone and iPad operating systems under the guise of helping discover security flaws. In a copyright-infringement ...
Hacker That Struck Capital One May Have Targeted 30 Other Companies
The Seattle woman accused of hacking into Capital One Financial Corp.'s cloud and stealing personal information on more than 100 million Americans also broke into servers of more than 30 other ...
Bayer May Be Seeking Roundup Cancer-Claim Deal Worth Up to $8B
Bayer AG is proposing to pay as much as $8 billion to settle more than 18,000 U.S. lawsuits alleging its Roundup herbicide causes cancer, according to people familiar with the negotiations. An ...
For Insurers, New Calif. Data Protection Regulation Offers ‘Tremendous’ Opportunity
More than a year after The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all citizens of the European Union, was implemented in May 2018, some ...
Trump Administration Carbon Rule Replacement Draws Lawsuit From 22 States and 7 Cities
Twenty-two states, including New York and California, and seven cities on Tuesday sued to challenge the Environmental Protection Agency's replacement of the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan, ...
WhatsApp Flaws Could Allow Hackers to Manipulate Messages: Cybersecurity Firm
A cybersecurity firm says it has identified flaws in the popular messaging app WhatsApp that could allow hackers to manipulate messages in both public and private conversations, raising the prospect ...
Apple Offers Up to $1M to Researchers Who Uncover iPhone Cybersecurity Flaws
Apple Inc is offering cyber security researchers up to $1 million to detect flaws in iPhones, the largest reward offered by a company to defend against hackers, at a time of rising concern about ...