Litigation/Liability Trends
Ex-AIG Head Loses Bid to Dismiss Fraud Lawsuit
A New York state appeals court rejected former American International Group Inc Chairman Maurice "Hank" Greenberg's bid to dismiss a lawsuit accusing him of orchestrating an accounting fraud at the ...
BP Spill Leads to Proposed Risk Reduction Rules For Offshore Oil Wells
The Obama administration proposed tighter rules for the offshore drilling equipment designed to be a last line of defense against oil-well blowouts, five years after the fatal BP Plc spill off ...
Google Hit With European Union Antitrust Complaint and New Investigation
The European Union escalated its four-year- old probe into Google Inc., accusing the Internet giant of abusing its dominance of the search-engine market and starting a new investigation into its ...
Data on Health Data Breaches Published
Between 2010 and 2013, data breaches of protected health information reported by HIPAA-covered entities increased and involved approximately 29 million records, with most data breaches resulting from ...
Employee Snafus a Big Factor in Cyber Attacks, Verizon and Symantec Find
When a cyber security breach hits the news, those most closely involved often have incentive to play up the sophistication of the attack. If hackers are portrayed as well-funded geniuses, victims ...
1,000-Plus Lawsuits Allege Pfizer Knew Zoloft Posed Birth Defect Risk
Pfizer Inc. researchers concluded last year that pregnant women taking Zoloft risked having babies with heart defects, according to evidence made public by a lawyer at the first trial of more than ...
States—Not Feds—Should Oversee Workers Comp; Reform Challenges Mount
Workers compensation insurance is getting a bad rap these days, with everyone from an investigative media organization to North Carolina's governor offering criticisms of how "the grand bargain" of ...
Amazon Gets Fresh Approval for Drone Tests
Amazon.com Inc. has won approval from U.S. federal regulators to test a delivery drone outdoors, less than a month after the e-commerce powerhouse blasted regulators for being slow to approve ...