Litigation/Liability Trends
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 ...
T-Mobile: Hackers May Have Ripped off Data of 15 Million Applicants
T-Mobile US Inc said personal data of about 15 million of its U.S. applicants may have been stolen in a breach at a unit of Experian Plc, which processes the telecom carrier's credit applications. ...
Lawsuit Alleges Morgan Stanley Curbed Worker Rights to Sue Over Bias
Morgan Stanley is asking employees to give up their right to sue the firm in class actions for civil rights violations including discrimination based on race, gender or age, according to a former ...