Litigation/Liability Trends
Cryptocurrency Exchange Giant Reports Hack Attack
Binance, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, said hackers withdrew 7,000 bitcoins worth about $40 million via a single transaction in a "large scale security breach," the latest in a ...
J&J Reportedly Will Fork Over $1B to Resolve Most Metal-Hip Suits
Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay about $1 billion to resolve most lawsuits claiming it sold defective metal-on-metal hips that ultimately had to be removed, according to people with knowledge of ...
Lawsuits Accuse Two U.S. Solar Firms of Workplace Racism
Two residential solar companies have now been accused in separate lawsuits of discriminating against African American employees in warehouses. Six former employees of New Jersey-based Momentum Solar ...
Judge Approves $307.5M Fiat Chrysler Diesel Emissions Settlement
A federal judge in San Francisco on Friday approved a $307.5 million civil settlement for about 100,000 U.S. owners of Fiat Chrysler diesel vehicles that the government said had illegal software that ...
State Farm, Allstate Sue Doctors and Pain-Management Clinics, Alleging Billing Fraud
Two insurance carriers filed separate lawsuits recently against medical doctors and their pain-management clinics, accusing them of submitting bills for unnecessary medical procedures performed on ...
‘Project Owl’ Wi-Fi Network May Be Easy Way to Save Lives During Natural Disasters
From a cramped living room in Brooklyn, New York, a handful of young computer nerds has developed a new way to use technology to help save lives in natural disasters. They have designed tiny ...
Global Security Officials Agree on 5G Security Guidelines, With Added Warnings
Global security officials agreed a set of proposals on Friday for future 5G networks, highlighting concerns about equipment supplied by vendors that might be subject to state influence. No suppliers ...
Cryptocurrency Thefts and Fraud Reportedly Reach $1.2B in Q1
Losses from the theft of cryptocurrencies from exchanges and fraud-related activities surged in the first quarter of the year to $1.2 billion, or 70 percent of the level for all of 2018, ...