Litigation/Liability Trends
PG&E to Face Manslaughter Trial Over Deadly California Fire
Pacific Gas & Electric will face trial for manslaughter over its role in a 2020 wildfire in Northern California that killed four people, a judge ruled Wednesday. The judge in Shasta County ruled ...
FTX Liability Tentacles Spread Far
As the spectacle knowingly or unwittingly orchestrated by Sam Bankman-Fried, cofounder of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX Trading and cryptocurrency trading firm Alameda Research, plays out on ...
Juul Settlement to End Youth-Vaping Lawsuits Gets Initial Approval
Juul Labs Inc. won preliminary approval of a settlement aimed at resolving thousands of lawsuits targeting the e-cigarette maker as a major cause of a U.S. youth-vaping epidemic. U.S. District Judge ...
Who Is the Real Artist? Questions, Lawsuits Spring From AI Images
Countless artists have taken inspiration from "The Starry Night'' since Vincent Van Gogh painted the swirling scene in 1889. Now artificial intelligence systems are doing the same, training ...
Appeals Court Rules Insurers Not Obligated to Defend Distributor of Opioids
Westfield National Insurance Co. and Motorists Mutual Insurance Co. are not required by their insurance contracts to defend generic drug distributor Quest Pharmaceuticals against dozens of ...
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 arbitration rather than a ...
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 accountable for the mental ...