Litigation/Liability Trends
Uber Self-Driving Car Fatality: Daughter of Victim Settles, Other Family Retain Lawyer
More family members of a woman killed by an Uber Technologies Inc self-driving vehicle have hired legal counsel, indicating the ride services firm's legal problems may not be over in the first ...
Atlanta Struggles to Recover From Cyber Attack, Relying on Paper and Phones
Atlanta's top officials holed up in their offices on Saturday as they worked to restore critical systems knocked out by a nine-day-old cyber attack that plunged the Southeastern U.S. metropolis into ...
Lord & Taylor, Saks Data Breach: Millions of Payment Cards May Be Compromised
Retailer Hudson's Bay Co on Sunday disclosed that it was the victim of a security breach that compromised data on payment cards used at Saks and Lord & Taylor stores in North America. One cyber ...
Tesla Acknowledges Vehicle Autopilot Activated Before Fatal Crash
Tesla Inc said on Friday that a Tesla Model X involved a fatal crash in California last week had activated its Autopilot system, raising new questions about the semi-autonomous system that handles ...
Fatal Tesla Crash, Fire in Calif. Leads to U.S. Investigation
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board is opening a field investigation of a fatal Tesla Inc crash and major vehicle fire near Mountain View, California, last week, the agency said on Tuesday. ...
Uber Disabled Autonomous Vehicle’s Safety Tech Before Fatality
Uber Technologies Inc. disabled the standard collision-avoidance technology in the Volvo SUV that struck and killed a woman in Arizona last week, according to the auto-parts maker that supplied the ...
SCOTUS Rejects ‘Hank’ Greenberg’s AIG Bailout Appeal
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Maurice "Hank" Greenberg's Starr International Co., refusing to revive its bid to sue the federal government over the $85 billion bailout of American ...
Carriers Can Learn From Uber Driverless Vehicle Fatality as They Shape Coverage Standards
Uber's driverless sport utility vehicle that struck and killed a woman in Arizona during a test run isn't spooking carriers from developing coverage for the technology. The industry is proceeding ...