Litigation/Liability Trends
Age Discrimination Hiring Practices Targeted by Upcoming Court Cases
Dale Kleber is an experienced attorney, but when he spotted an ad back in 2014 for a corporate law position at a medical device and services company that specified "no more than seven years of ...
Gender Plays a Big Role in Workplace Harassment: Hiscox Survey
More than one-third (35 percent) of employees in the U.S. feel they've experienced workplace harassment, and half of them believe it was due to their gender. A study released by specialty insurer ...
Corporate ‘Cyber Bombs’ Making Intelligence Officers Worried
A growing number of countries can hack into private computer networks and install malicious software to sabotage another country's infrastructure, Germany's domestic spy chief said on Tuesday. China, ...
California Falls Short in Giving Utilities Relief From Strict Liability Rules
As California's lawmakers debated late Friday night under the statehouse capitol dome in Sacramento, the city's utility district kept the lights on for them. But the legislators fell short for the ...
Tropical Storm Gordon Weakens to Tropical Depression, Missing Hurricane Predictions
Gordon was rapidly weakening to a tropical depression after coming ashore near the Alabama-Mississippi border late Tuesday and killing at least one person while knocking out power to thousands. The ...
3-D Gun Designer Fields 600 Orders Even as Judge Blocks Publishing of Designs
A small Texas nonprofit is taking orders to mail blueprints for computer-made 3-D guns to anyone willing to pay for them just a day after a federal judge blocked the designs from being published ...
The 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season: Still Unusually Quiet
Where are all the big Atlantic storms? A year ago, Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas, kicking off a parade of destructive storms that made 2017 the costliest Atlantic season ever. So far in ...
California, Hammered by Fires, Plans for Many More Climate-Change Risks
Two-thirds of California's beaches may be washed away by the end of the century, according to the state's latest forecast. California's fourth statewide climate assessment details the increasingly ...