Litigation/Liability Trends
Dupont Loses Third Case Over Teflon-Making Chemical and Cancer Risk
A U.S. jury in Ohio on Wednesday ordered DuPont to pay $2 million to a man who said he developed testicular cancer from exposure to a toxic chemical leaked from one of the company's plants, according ...
Reuters Special Report: ‘Superbug’ Outbreaks Kept Secret at Hospitals, Nursing Homes
The outbreak started in January 2014. That's when a resident of the Casa Maria nursing home here was diagnosed with Clostridium difficile, a highly contagious and potentially deadly "superbug" that ...
Uber Halts Autonomous Car Program in Calif. After Vehicle Registrations Revoked
Uber Technologies Inc. pulled its self-driving cars from San Francisco's streets after the state of California revoked registrations for the vehicles. The move impacted 16 Uber automobiles, the ...
American Airlines Wins $15M in Antitrust Case Against Sabre
American Airlines Group Inc on Tuesday won about $15.3 million in an antitrust lawsuit that accused airline booking service Sabre Corp of harming competition and charging grossly inflated booking ...
VW Reaches $1B Agreement to Settle Emissions-Cheating Scandal Lawsuits
Volkswagen AG took an important step in digging out from its emissions-cheating scandal by reaching a $1 billion agreement to settle lawsuits over tainted 3.0-liter diesel engines. The preliminary ...
U.S. Investigation Blames Facebook’s Big Drone Crash on Autopilot
The wing on Facebook Inc.'s experimental high-altitude drone broke last summer in Arizona after the massive aircraft hit an updraft and its autopilot overcompensated seconds before touchdown on its ...
Credit Suisse Reportedly Resisting $5B-$7B Penalty Over Toxic Mortgage Debt
The U.S. Department of Justice has asked Credit Suisse to pay between $5 billion and $7 billion to settle a probe over its sale of toxic mortgage securities in the run-up to the 2008 financial ...
Twitter, Google, Facebook Sued by Families of Orlando Nightclub Victims
The families of three men killed at Orlando's Pulse gay nightclub have sued Twitter Inc, Alphabet Inc's Google and Facebook Inc in federal court, accusing the companies of providing "material ...