Twitter’s Laid-Off Workers Cannot Pursue Claims Via Class-Action Lawsuit
Twitter Inc. has secured a ruling allowing the social media company to force several laid-off workers suing over their termination to pursue their claims via individual ...
Litigation/Liability Trends
Schools and Social Media Lawsuits: The Legal Road Ahead
Like the tobacco, oil, gun, opioid and vaping industries before them, the big U.S. social media companies are now facing lawsuits brought by public entities that seek to hold them accountable for a ...
Seattle Schools Sue Social Media Platforms Over Mental Health Crisis
The public school district in Seattle has filed a novel lawsuit against the tech giants behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat, seeking to hold them ...
Trader Joe’s Sued Over Lead, Cadmium Levels in Dark Chocolate
Trader Joe's was sued on Wednesday by a consumer who accused the grocery chain of misleading and endangering shoppers by selling dark chocolate that contains harmful levels of ...
JPMorgan Must Face Suit by Ray-Ban Maker Unit Over Cyber Theft
JPMorgan Chase Bank NA will have to face a lawsuit by a unit of the French maker of Ray-Ban glasses that claims the bank ignored suspicious transactions as cybercriminals drained $272 million from ...
Lawsuit Alleges Insurance Agency Liable for Child Shooting at Home Office
The parents of a three-year-old Maine boy who accidentally shot himself with a loaded pistol filed a negligence suit against the owner of a Vermont home where the boy ...
D&O Insurer Dodges Coverage for $4.9M Embezzlement Scheme
A directors and officers insurer has no duty to defend a New Mexico financial organization from litigation filed after its former chief executive officer was convicted of ...
Pulitzer-Winning Authors Join OpenAI, Microsoft Copyright Lawsuit
A group of 11 nonfiction authors have joined a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court that accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of misusing books the authors have written to train the ...
Courtroom Predictions for 2023 From Clyde & Co
Insurance law firm Clyde & Co put together some predictions for 2023. The bad news for claims: nuclear verdicts aren't going anywhere. Here is that prediction as well ...
Lawsuit Against State Farm Alleges Racial Discrimination in Claims Handling
State Farm's claims handling process is the subject of a new lawsuit alleging disparities between the insurer's treatment of claims from Black policyholders versus claims ...