Litigation/Liability Trends
Another Wells Fargo Lawsuit, This Time Over Merchant Credit Card Fees
A Wells Fargo Bank joint venture that provides credit card processing services to merchants across the country has been hit with a lawsuit accusing it of using misleading sales tactics and ...
Shipping Industry Starts Embracing Retro Tech as Cyber Threat Deterrence
The risk of cyber attacks targeting ships' satellite navigation is pushing nations to delve back through history and develop back-up systems with roots in World War Two radio technology. Ships use ...
Up to 16 Named Storms Forecast During Atlantic Hurricane Season
Researchers again boosted the number of storms the Atlantic may produce before the hurricane season ends as a missing Pacific El Nino and warm waters present favorable storm conditions. As many as 16 ...
Wells Fargo Will Fork Over $108M to Settle Lawsuit Over Veterans’ Loans
Wells Fargo & Co will pay the U.S. government $108 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit claiming it charged military veterans hidden fees to refinance their mortgages, and concealed the fees ...
Volkswagen Seeks Dismissal of $1B Wyoming Environmental Lawsuit
Volkswagen AG, trying to put a massive emissions-cheating scandal behind it, has asked a U.S. judge to reject a lawsuit by Wyoming potentially seeking more than $1 billion in additional penalties for ...
WannaCry, Petya Cyber Attacks Cost Europe’s Companies Hundreds of Millions of Dolllars
Global hackers have unleashed a brace of attacks in recent months, but while their haul in bitcoin has been paltry, the revenue hit to companies infected is reaching into the hundreds of millions of ...
New York Regulators Seek Info From National General, Others in Wells Fargo Scandals
Two New York regulators sent subpoenas related to practices in the auto lending unit of Wells Fargo & Co., the bank struggling with multiple consumer scandals. The New York Department of ...
Cyber ‘Worm’ Disrupts Q2 Corporate Earnings for Many Firms
Costly cyber attacks are having a bigger impact on corporate earnings and are becoming a fact of life for companies as Oreo cookie maker Mondelez, drug maker Merck and others said that a destructive ...