Litigation/Liability Trends
Amazon Steers Consumers to Higher-Priced Items, Lawsuit Claims
Amazon.com was sued in a proposed U.S. class action accusing the online retailer of violating a consumer protection law by steering hundreds of millions of shoppers to higher-priced items in order to ...
Supreme Court in UBS Case Makes it Easier for Whistleblowers to Win Suits
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday made it easier for financial sector whistleblowers to win lawsuits accusing companies of unlawfully firing them as retaliation for disclosing wrongdoing, rejecting ...
Appeals Court Rules Insurers Not Obligated to Defend Opioid Distributor McKesson
The role drug distributor McKesson Corp. had in the opioid crisis was no accident, meaning the company is not entitled to defense costs related to litigation against it. McKesson Corp. appealed a ...
Class Actions Filed Over Builders Mutual, Progressive’s Own Data Breaches
Progressive Casualty Insurance and North Carolina-based Builders Mutual Insurance Co. have been served with class-action lawsuits over data breaches on their own computer systems in 2022, cyber ...
J&J to Pay $700 Million to Settle States’ Talc-Marketing Probe
Johnson & Johnson has tentatively agreed to pay about $700 million to resolve an investigation by more than 40 U.S. states of claims that it wrongfully marketed its talc-based baby powder by not ...
Merck Settles Coverage Dispute With Insurers Over War Exclusion in NotPetya Attack
Merck & Co. Inc. has reportedly reached a deal with insurers over a closely watched coverage dispute related to a massive cyber attack in 2017. The New Jersey Supreme Court in July 2023 agreed to ...
FTC Reaches Settlement With XCast Labs Over Illegal Robocalls
U.S. regulators and XCast Labs have agreed on a proposed settlement of charges that the company facilitated billions of illegal robocalls, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said on Tuesday. The FTC ...
EEOC Says No Need to Pause Lawsuit Against Tesla for Race Bias
A U.S. anti-discrimination agency has asked a federal judge to reject Tesla Inc's bid to pause a lawsuit alleging widespread racial bias at the electric carmaker's flagship Fremont, California, ...