Litigation/Liability Trends
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, ...
Florida Suit Over Charged Lemonade Death Puts New Focus on Energy Drink Safety
Panera Bread Co. must face a lawsuit over a death allegedly linked to its new line of "charged" lemonades, which have thrust the company into the spotlight and brought a renewed focus on the safety ...
Rite Aid Banned From AI Facial Recognition by FTC After Misuse
Rite Aid Corp. must stop using facial recognition for the next five years as part of a privacy settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission, which said the pharmacy chain misused the technology to ...