Litigation/Liability Trends
Equifax CEO Smith Retires After Massive Cyber Attack
Equifax said on Tuesday its Chief Executive Officer Richard Smith will retire following a massive data breach at the credit reporting firm that exposed personal details of up to 143 million U.S. ...
Expect More Energy Contract Lawsuits, Thanks to Hurricane Harvey
Lawyers expect a spate of force majeure contract lawsuits after Hurricane Harvey tore through Southeast Texas and parts of Louisiana last month, paralyzing a fifth of U.S. fuel output and pushing ...
Harvey Likely Hit Hiscox With $150M in Net Insurance Claims
Specialist insurer Hiscox Ltd. believe it will see net claims from Hurricane Harvey hovering around $150 million. The number is based on an insured market loss prediction of $25 billion, excluding ...
Hackers Compromised CCleaner Free Software, Putting Legions of Devices at Risk
Hackers broke into British company Piriform's free software for optimizing computer performance last month potentially allowing them to control the devices of more than two million users, the company ...
Spitzer Fair Game in Ex-AIG Chief Greenberg’s Defamation Lawsuit: Appeals Court Ruling
Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, former chief executive of American International Group Inc , may pursue large parts of his defamation lawsuit against former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, a New ...
Hurricane Irma Destroyed 25 Percent of Homes in the Florida Keys, FEMA Says
Search-and-rescue teams made their way into the Florida Keys' farthest reaches Tuesday, while crews labored to repair the single washed-out highway connecting the islands and rush aid to Hurricane ...
Travelers’ Hurricane Harvey Pretax Losses Could Reach $750M
The Travelers Companies said it will deal with as much as $750 million in pretax catastrophe losses stemming from Hurricane Harvey. It's still early yet, so Travelers disclosed an estimate with a ...
Streams of Raw Sewage Overwhelm Cities Slammed by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma
Hurricane Harvey took aim at one of the nation's most industrial regions, releasing a stream of toxic pollutants from chemical plants, refineries and Superfund sites in Texas. But when its bigger ...