Litigation/Liability Trends
Microsoft Insurer Fails to Recoup $175M from Xbox Chipmaker Hit by Fire
Microsoft Corp.'s captive insurer has lost its bid to recover $175 million in costs the software maker said it incurred in 2013 to replace memory chips that a manufacturer failed to deliver because ...
Climate Change Activists Are Suing Shell Over Fossil Fuel Usage
Environmentalist and human rights groups said on Friday they had started a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force the energy firm to cut its reliance on fossil fuels. The ...
Bayer Claims It Contained Cyber Attack Hatched in China
German drugmaker Bayer has contained a cyber attack it believes was hatched in China, the company said, highlighting the risk of data theft and disruption faced by big business. Bayer found the ...
The 2019 Atlantic Hurricane Season Could Bring 13 Named Storms
There's a lot of reasons people think 13 is an unlucky number. This year may add another. At least 13 storm systems should reach tropical strength and get a name in 2019, with five becoming ...
Russia Banks, Money Transfer Firms Sued Over Downed Malaysian Airlines Plane
The family of an American killed when a Malaysian Airlines plane was shot down over Ukraine in 2014 filed a lawsuit on Thursday against U.S.-based money transfer companies and two Russian banks they ...
Massive Amounts of Facebook User Data Found Posted on Amazon Cloud Servers
Facebook Inc. user data is still showing up in places it shouldn't. Researchers at UpGuard, a cybersecurity firm, found troves of user information hiding in plain sight, inadvertently posted publicly ...
Uber’s Co-Founder, Board Win Dismissal of Investor Trade Secret Suit
Travis Kalanick, the co-founder of ride-hailing company Uber, and the company's directors won the dismissal of an investor lawsuit that sought to hold them liable for a fight over trade secrets that ...
Ethiopian Airlines Crash Could Become Largest Non-War Aviation Reinsurance Claim on Record: Willis Re
Liability claims related to the Ethiopian Airlines crash and the grounding of Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft could be the largest non-war aviation reinsurance claim on record, hitting reinsurers' ...