Litigation/Liability Trends
Travelers Must Face Bad Faith Contract Claim After Appeals Court Ruling
Kyle and Marie Stechert say they rushed to buy another car after their vehicle was "totaled" in an accident because their insurance carrier refused to keep paying for their rental vehicle. The new ...
Persian Gulf Liability Risks Force BP to Avoid Sending Tankers
BP Plc, the British oil giant that had to shelter one of its tankers in the Persian Gulf this month in fear it could be targeted by Iranian forces, is avoiding sending ships to the region after ...
UK Consumers Urged to Lodge Claims for Mis-Sold Loan Insurance
Britain's financial complaints body encouraged consumers on Friday to lodge claims for mis-sold loan insurance ahead of an Aug. 29 deadline, despite criticism from some banks that a majority of the ...
J&J Fights to Keep Lawsuit in Play Designed to Force Baby Powder Cancer Warning
Johnson & Johnson wants its day in court to fight a lawsuit intended to force it to put a cancer warning on the company's Baby Powder. So, it's urging a judge not to let a law firm that's been ...
Capital One Hammered by Massive Hack Attack Affecting 100 Million Individuals
Capital One Financial Corp said on Monday that personal information including names and addresses of about 100 million individuals in the United States and 6 million people in Canada were obtained by ...
Insurers Urged to Show Caution When They Pursue Recovery of Paradigm Fees
Paradigm Catastrophic Care Management offers what insurers crave: certainty in medical costs for workers compensation claims filed by catastrophically injured workers. For a set fee, the California ...
U.S. Judge Slashes $2B Roundup Verdict Against Bayer to $86M
A California judge on Thursday reduced a $2 billion jury verdict, slashing the award for a couple who blamed Bayer AG's glyphosate-based weed killer, Roundup, for their cancer to $86.7 million. ...
J&J Combats Lawsuits Alleging Cancer-Causing Baby Powder by Attacking the Science
Johnson & Johnson, seeking to head off claims by thousands of women that its iconic Baby Powder caused their cancer, took aim at some of the science cited in lawsuits alleging the company's ...