Litigation/Liability Trends
Job Cuts, Fleeing Investors: How Anti-DEI Lawsuits Take a Toll on Targets
Elizabeth Gore is fighting for survival. Just six months ago, the founder of financial technology startup Hello Alice was getting ready to close an investment round to grow its business offering ...
OpenAI Says New York Times ‘Hacked’ ChatGPT to Build Copyright Lawsuit
OpenAI has asked a federal judge to dismiss parts of the New York Times' copyright lawsuit against it, arguing that the newspaper "hacked" its chatbot ChatGPT and other artificial-intelligence ...
TikTok Faces Fine as EU Prepares Probe Over Risks to Minors
TikTok owner ByteDance Ltd. faces the threat of hefty fines as the European Union prepares a probe under its strict new content moderation rules over concerns of risks to minors. The European ...
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 ...