Litigation/Liability Trends
China Insurers Rush to Site of Capsized Ship on Yangtze River
PICC Property and Casualty Co Ltd, the insurer of a ship that capsized in China's Yangtze river on Monday, and other insurers have sent teams to the site to settle claims in connection with what ...
Why Facebook, Data Brokers Are Medical Plaintiff Lawyers’ Best Friends
For ambulance chasers, persistence and a phone book just don't cut it anymore. Law firms, which once relied on television commercials, billboards, and cold calling numbers in the white pages to find ...
Alpha Natural Resources Seeking to Cover $400M in Mine Cleanup Liabilities
Alpha Natural Resources Inc no longer qualifies for a government program that subsidizes a share of mine cleanup insurance, requiring the coal company to find another way to cover roughly $400 ...
Uber Expands Customer Monitoring, Data Collection
Uber Technologies Inc.'s new privacy policy released last week is shorter, easier to read and more expansive than before. The car booking company now more clearly tells its customers it can pretty ...
Florida High Court Nixes Applying Medical Malpractice Cap Retroactively
A 2003 law capping medical malpractice lawsuit awards at $500,000 can't be applied retroactively. That's what the Supreme Court ruled in a Miami-Dade County case in which a woman suffered permanent ...
Trial Begins for Dewey & LeBoeuf Executives Charged with Fraud
Nearly three years after the demise of law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf, a Manhattan prosecutor opened the criminal trial of three of the firm's former executives on Tuesday by accusing the trio of ...
BP Resolves Oil Spill-Related Claims With Hailiburton, Transocean
BP Plc has settled with oilfield services provider Halliburton Co and contract driller Transocean Ltd cross claims related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the worst offshore disaster in U.S. ...
Amtrak Already Faces Multiple Lawsuits in Philly Derailment
Six passengers on an Amtrak train that derailed May 12 in Philadelphia, killing eight and injuring more than 200, sued the railroad claiming the accident could have been avoided. The first of the ...