Litigation/Liability Trends
London Mom Sues AIG in Maternity Leave Lawsuit
American International Group Inc. said it was not "unwelcoming to working mothers" as the insurer fought a discrimination lawsuit filed by a former London trader dismissed while on maternity leave. ...
Two Berkshire Hathaway Units Settle in California ‘Bait and Switch’ Insurance Probe
Two insurance units of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc have agreed to lower their rates and provide more disclosures to settle claims that they overcharged small business owners in California ...
Speaking Your Mind on Twitter May Require Libel Insurance
Courtney Love spent almost six years in litigation accused of libeling her former attorney in a Twitter post that was visible for less than 10 minutes. She paid a reported $780,000 in settlements as ...
Harassment Probe Leads Uber to Fire 20 Employees
Uber Technologies Inc said on Tuesday it fired 20 employees and was improving management training following an investigation by a law firm into sexual harassment allegations and other claims at the ...
7,000 Farmers Suing Syngenta in GMO Corn Dispute About to Get Day in Court
Farmers have to deal with threats to their crops from nature all the time. Thousands of Kansans, though, argue that Syngenta AG posed an even bigger threat by failing to prevent its genetically ...
Liability Insurance Law Restatement Approval Delayed: What It Means
It had been expected by many that after seven years of arduous work, the American Law Institute's "Restatement of the Law, Liability Insurance" would be approved late last month at the Institute's ...
Cyber Attacks From Governments or Criminals Are Hard to Distinguish
Veteran espionage researcher Jon DiMaggio was hot on the trail three months ago of what on the face of it looked like a menacing new industrial espionage attack by Russian cyber spies. All the ...
Local Government Lawsuits Over Marketing of Opioid Painkillers Face Uphill Battle
A growing number of U.S. states, counties and cities are filing lawsuits accusing drug companies of deceptively marketing opioid painkillers to downplay their addictiveness, but some lawyers say the ...