Litigation/Liability Trends
Bedbugs Help Drive Increase in U.S. Animal-Related Insurance Claims
Bedbugs in hotel rooms and aggressive peacocks are some of the creatures behind an uptick in animal-related insurance claims filed by U.S. businesses, according to a study published on Thursday by ...
Wells Fargo Will Settle Lawsuit Over Account Abuses With $110M Payment
Wells Fargo & Co said it agreed to pay $110 million to settle a lawsuit by customers challenging its opening of accounts without their permission, a practice that led to a scandal that cost the ...
Lack of Comma Sense Launches Debate After Ruling in $10M Lawsuit
It all came down to a missing comma, and not just any one. And it's reignited a longstanding debate over whether the punctuation is necessary. A federal appeals court decided this week to keep alive ...
Trump EPA Cuts Could Mean More Birth Defects, Bad Air: Network Report
President Donald Trump pledged during the 2016 campaign that he would only "leave a little bit" of federal rules that protect human health and the environment. Now about 50 former officials of the ...
PwC Settles Negligence Lawsuit Over MF Global’s 2011 Collapse
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP has settled a $3 billion negligence lawsuit over the October 2011 collapse of MF Global Holdings Ltd, the futures and commodities brokerage once run by former New Jersey ...
For Insurers, Thunderstorm and Hurricane Losses Leave Equal Financial Impact
Risk to U.S. property from thunderstorms is as high as from hurricanes, according to new research finding that for the past decade, severe convective storms have been the largest annual aggregated ...
Google Pairs With Sister Company to Defend Election Groups Against Cyber Attacks
Google and sister company Jigsaw are joining forces to defend election organizers and civic groups against cyber attacks free of charge as the broader tech industry seeks to fend off criticism that ...
Warm Arctic Temperatures Will Lead to More Extreme Weather
Unusually warm weather in the Arctic is helping shift weather patterns this year from North America to the Middle East, after global warming shattered records in 2016, according to the World ...