Litigation/Liability Trends
Facebook Agrees to Pay Record $5B to Settle Privacy Violation Claims
Facebook Inc. agreed to pay a record $5 billion to resolve a U.S. investigation into years of privacy violations, a settlement that increases the board of directors' responsibility for protecting ...
Europe Braces For Second Historic Heatwave
Europe is facing a second heatwave this summer, just weeks after the hottest June on record, intensifying concern over climate change and the rise in extreme weather events. Swathes of northwest ...
Equifax Customers Will Struggle to Get Claims Properly Addressed
Consumers affected by the massive Equifax Inc data breach in 2017 will not reap any windfalls from the credit reporting company's $700 million U.S. settlement announced on Monday, but may face a ...
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. ...