Litigation/Liability Trends
Motel 6 Will Pay $7.6M for Sharing Guest Lists With U.S. Immigration Agents
Motel 6 will pay up to $7.6 million to Hispanic guests to settle a proposed class-action lawsuit claiming that it violated their privacy by regularly providing guest lists to U.S. Immigration and ...
Wells Fargo Auto Insurance Scandal Leads to Class Action Lawsuit
Wells Fargo & Co executives were warned that an auto insurance plan could be overcharging customers four years before the bank scrapped the program, according to a complaint released by a judge ...
Cathay Pacific Airways Faces Hong Kong Probe Over Massive Data Breach
Hong Kong's privacy commissioner will launch a compliance investigation into Cathay Pacific Airways over a data breach involving 9.4 million passengers, saying the carrier may have violated privacy ...
Climate Change Risks Forcing States, Cities to Borrow Billions in Move to Adapt
Dan Gelber, the mayor of Miami Beach, Florida, says climate change will be a homeowners' worst nightmare. "If you own a home and you find that your roof has a problem or you find out there's a ...
SCOTUS Lets Youths’ Climate Change Trial Proceed, but Other Challenges May Come
The U.S. Supreme Court refused, for now, to stop a trial in a sweeping lawsuit pressed by young people seeking to force the federal government to take steps against climate change. The order on ...
Cities Vulnerable to Climate Change Are Still Getting Their AAA Bond Ratings
Last fall, after a trio of deadly hurricanes, ratings companies warned vulnerable coastal cities to get ready for climate change -- or face higher borrowing costs on the $3.9 trillion municipal bond ...
Suit Alleges Tesla Overstated Autopilot Safety
Tesla Inc. was accused in a lawsuit of misleading consumers into believing that the Autopilot system on its cars can safely transport passengers at highway speeds. A Model S driver who was injured in ...
PCI Panel: Carriers Should Encourage Flood Insurance Even Outside of a Hazard Zone
It might be time for carriers and agents to encourage their clients to buy coverage even if they're not living and working inside a flood zone. Such an action is long overdue, according to insurance ...