Litigation/Liability Trends
Lawsuit Alleging Facebook Tagging Violates Biometric Privacy Moves Forward
Facebook Inc. users who say the social network's facial scanning flouts their privacy rights won the first round of a court fight. A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday rejected Facebook's ...
Russian Criminals May be Selling Hundreds of Millions of Hacked Email Accounts
Hundreds of millions of hacked usernames and passwords for email accounts and other websites are being traded in Russia's criminal underworld, a security expert told Reuters. The discovery of 272.3 ...
Russian Computer Hacker Rewarded for Aiding U.S. Prosecutors
A Russian who admitted creating a computer virus that infected more than 1 million computers worldwide was spared from additional prison time on top of the the three years he's already spent locked ...
U.S. Insured Losses Hit $3.8B in Q1; Worst in a Decade: PCS/Verisk
Catastrophe activity in the U.S. led to $3.8 billion in insured losses in 29 states during the 2016 first quarter, with much of the damage hitting Texas. Those events were the worst in a decade in ...
1,000 Talc-Cancer Suits Head J&J’s Way After $55M Verdict Loss
Johnson & Johnson must pay $55 million to a 62-year-old South Dakota woman who blamed her ovarian cancer on the company's talcum powder in the second such trial loss this year. J&J is accused ...
Canadian Railroad Struggles with Adequate Track Repair Following 2015 Derailments
Canada's biggest railway struggled to keep some heavily used track in adequate repair even after a string of derailments last year showed the danger of moving oil on poorly maintained track, ...
Travelers, Markel, other NFL Insurers to Question League Over Concussion Accord
The National Football League's insurers were cleared to begin gathering evidence in their effort to avoid paying the league more than $1 billion in costs for thousands of lawsuits by former players ...
PwC Sued for Allegedly Favoring Younger Job Hires
A lawsuit accusing PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP of violating U.S. discrimination law by hiring a "stunningly low" number of people over the age of 40 to maintain a youthful culture has been filed in ...