Litigation/Liability Trends
DuPont Defeated in First Liability Trial Over Toxic Teflon-Making Chemical
A cancer patient prevailed in her lawsuit against DuPont on Wednesday, when a jury awarded her $1.6 million and found the company liable for leaking a toxic chemical used to make Teflon into the ...
Wal-Mart, Visa Seek an End to Retailer’s $5B Swipe-Fee Lawsuit
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Visa Inc. are in talks aimed at settling the retailer's $5 billion lawsuit over processing fees. The negotiations were disclosed in a court filing Monday in Brooklyn federal ...
Fifth Third Bancorp Will Pay $85M to Settle Mortgage Fraud Case
Fifth Third Bancorp will pay more than $84.9 million to resolve U.S. civil fraud charges that it failed to disclose material defects in more than 1,400 mortgage loans in a timely manner after ...
West Virginia Sues Volkswagen Over Clean Diesel Emissions Claims
West Virginia may be the first U.S. state to sue Volkswagen AG for deceiving car buyers after the Environmental Protection Agency said last month that the company had installed software to hide that ...
VW Under Pressure for Answers About Emission Scandal Details
Hans Dieter Poetsch's first board meeting as chairman of Volkswagen on Wednesday could turn out to be his most important, coming just hours before a deadline set by German regulators and testimony by ...
U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Charles Schwab Appeal in Breach-of-Contract Dispute
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left intact an appeals court decision that allowed a financial adviser to sue Charles Schwab Corp over allegations that the brokerage firm deviated from objectives ...
BP’s Record Oil Spill Settlement Rises Another $2 Billion
The value of BP Plc's settlement with the U.S. government and five Gulf states over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill will rise to $20.8 billion, an increase of $2 billion from an agreement reached in ...
Hurricane Joaquin Fades as U.S. Threat; Bahamas Still Vulnerable
A weakening Hurricane Joaquin probably won't be a threat to the U.S. as it turns north in the Atlantic away from the Bahamas, where it's battering the islands with winds that fell to 125 miles (200 ...