Litigation/Liability Trends
Privacy Lawsuits Benefit Attorneys More than Consumers: Chamber Study
Statutes allowing plaintiff lawyers to enforce privacy laws through private rights of action are clogging courts and provide no real benefit to consumers, a report from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's ...
Google Settles 2010 Privacy Lawsuit With Modest Payment Agreement
Google is poised to pay a modest $13 million to end a 2010 privacy lawsuit that was once called the biggest U.S. wiretap case everand threatened the internet giant with billions of dollars in ...
Equifax Will Fork Over Up to $700M in U.S. Breach Probe Resolution
Equifax Inc. agreed to pay up to $700 million to resolve U.S. federal and state investigations into the 2017 hack that compromised some of the most sensitive information of more than 140 million ...
Calif. Misclassification Suit Continues Even as Insurers Win Appellate Victory
Insurers and service companies won a major victory this week against lawyers who were trying to bind a group of 1,550 California property appraisers together to sue Farmers Group and Allstate ...
Cell Phones Could Still Be a Safety Issue on Some Boeing Jets
U.S. government officials in 2014 revealed an alarming safety issue: Passenger cellphones and other types of radio signals could pose a crash threat to some models of Boeing 737 and 777 airplanes. ...
Another Opioid Distributor Is Charged Over Its Role in the U.S. Drug Epidemic
An Ohio drug wholesale distributor and two former executives were charged on Thursday with profiting from the U.S. opioid epidemic by selling millions of pills despite signs the addictive drugs were ...
Markel Says It Is Resolving Suits Filed by Fired CatCo Execs Over Unpaid Bonuses
Markel Corp. appears on the way to settling with two former employees who sued over unpaid bonuses after they were dismissed for allegedly having a personal relationship that Markel said violated ...
Hurricane Barry Produced Nearly $300M in Insured Losses: Karen Clark & Company
Hurricane Barry fizzled quickly into a tropical storm, but the weather event generated nearly $300 million in insured losses, according to the catastrophe modeling firm Karen Clark & Company. KCC ...