Litigation/Liability Trends
California Utility Will Pay $1B to Settle Fire Claims With Local Governments
PG&E Corp will pay $1 billion as part of its bankruptcy reorganization to more than a dozen local governments in California struck by wildfires in recent years, the company and lawyers for the ...
Bank of England to Lloyd’s: Make Progress in Tackling Sexual Harassment
The Bank of England called for Lloyd's of London to demonstrate progress in tackling the insurance market's culture of sexual harassment. The BOE's director of insurance supervision Anna Sweeney said ...
As Disappointed Shareholders Take Aim at IPOs, D&O Insurance Market Tightens
Companies going public in the United States face insurance costs that have increased as much as 200% in the last three years to cover their executives against lawsuits alleging they misled investors. ...
Product Defect Lawsuit Filed Against U.S. Cos. in London’s Grenfell Tower Fire Disaster
Three U.S. companies have been slapped with a wrongful death and products liability lawsuit for manufacturing products linked to London's Grenfell tower fire. The fire, which has been called the ...
Plaintiffs Suing Drug Firms Propose Including All U.S. Municipalities in Opioid Settlement
Lawyers representing county and municipal governments accusing drug manufacturers and distributors of fueling the U.S. opioid epidemic proposed a novel plan on Friday that would allow every community ...
Guy Carpenter Suspends Two Over Email Harassing Incident
A Lloyd's of London insurance broker, Guy Carpenter & Co., suspended an executive for sending a sexually suggestive email about a female colleague. A second employee was suspended for forwarding ...
World’s Biggest Beer Brewer Opens Israeli Cybersecurity Unit to Help Counter Attacks
Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev), the world's largest beer maker, said on Thursday it was opening a cybersecurity unit in Israel to help protect itself from a growing number of attacks. Israel is a ...
California Wildfire Risks Rise as Heat Climbs and Power Surges Proliferate
An unrelenting heat already frying California is threatening to send temperatures to record levels across the western U.S. this week, raising the risk of wildfires and propelling electricity prices ...