Litigation/Liability Trends
Uber Agrees to Fork Over $20M to Settle FTC Suit Over Driver Pay
Uber Technologies Inc. agreed to pay $20 million to settle a U.S. Federal Trade Commission lawsuit over driver compensation claims and its auto leasing program. The FTC sued the San Francisco-based ...
Credit Suisse Will Pay $5.3B to Settle U.S. Mortgage Case
Credit Suisse has formally agreed to pay $5.3 billion to settle with U.S. authorities over claims it misled investors in residential mortgage-backed securities it sold in the run-up to the 2008 ...
Supreme Court to Weigh Legality of Employee Arbitration Agreements
The U.S. Supreme Court last Friday agreed to consider whether companies can head off costly class action lawsuits by forcing employees to give up their right to pursue work-related legal claims in ...
Wells Fargo Believes Customers Properly Reimbursed in Fake Account Scandal
Wells Fargo & Co, the third-largest U.S. bank by assets, said on Friday it believes it has reimbursed the customers it needs to in order to comply with at least one of three settlements over a ...
Three Takata Executives Indicted in U.S. Over Company’s Faulty Airbags
Three Takata Corp. executives were accused in a U.S. indictment of misleading federal regulators, consumers and car manufacturers about the company's faulty air bags as part of a years-long scheme ...
Shipping Insurance Policies Fall Short, Exposing Industry to Cyber Threats
Shipping companies grappling with the threat of cyber attacks on vessels are finding insurance policies often fall short, officials involved in both industries say, a risk that could feed through ...
Volkswagen Board Ready to OK $4.3B U.S. Diesel Penalty Payment
Volkswagen AG's supervisory board is set to sign off on a $4.3 billion settlement of U.S. criminal and civil penalties for rigging diesel-powered cars to cheat on emissions tests, the latest step in ...
Hackers Will Become More Cunning in 2017 as Cyber Risks Intensify: Report
Top cyber threats during 2017 are expected to include nation state cyber espionage, a rise in data integrity attacks and an increase in attacks harnessing Internet of Things (IoT) devices, according ...