Litigation/Liability Trends
Shared Electric Scooters Are Bringing a Surge of Litigation Possibilities
Over the past few years, cities across America have experienced sudden downpours of shared electric scooters, piling up almost overnight on curbs, sidewalks and front-yards from Atlanta to Los ...
One Concern Envisions Wide Use for Its AI Disaster Mitigation Tech
Ahmad Wani was home in 2014 visiting his mother in Kashmir, in northern India, when the floods hit. For seven days, the family waited for help to come. Luckily, they did not lose their home, but many ...
Regulators Clear California Utility of 2017 Wildfire Liability
As PG&E Corp. barreled toward bankruptcy last week, just one analyst kept a "buy" rating on the shares, largely on valuation. On Thursday, the stock surged by the most ever, rising 75 percent to ...
Corporate America Already Planning for Climate Change Challenges, Business Interruption Risks
Bank of America Corp. worries flooded homeowners will default on their mortgages. The Walt Disney Co. is concerned its theme parks will get too hot for vacationers, while AT&T Inc. fears ...
J&J Will Pay $120M to Settle States’ Hip Implant Claims
Johnson & Johnson and its DePuy Orthopaedics unit have agreed to pay $120 million to resolve deceptive marketing claims by several U.S. states over the company's metal-on-metal hip implants. ...
Pentagon Warns Climate Change Poses Dire Risks to Bases and Troops
The U.S. Defense Department has issued a dire report on how climate change could affect the nation's armed forces and security, warning that rising seas could inundate coastal bases and ...
Hedge Fund Baupost Reported to Hold $1 Billion in PG&E Insurance Claims
Seth Klarman's Baupost Group has been the poster child of the hedge fund industry's ill-timed stock-market bets on the troubled utility PG&E Corp., which announced plans for bankruptcy. It turns ...
U.S. Slaps Charges Onto Several, Alleging SEC Hacking Scheme
U.S. authorities on Tuesday charged several individuals and companies in a scheme to trade on information in nonpublic corporate press releases by hacking into a U.S. Securities and Exchange ...