Litigation/Liability Trends
State Farm to Pay $100 Million to Federal Government for Hurricane Katrina Claims
State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. and two former claims adjuster sisters, who more than 16 years ago filed a lawsuit claiming the insurer committed fraud against the government's National Flood ...
Gas Producer Santos Faces New Climate Claim in Landmark Greenwashing Case
Activists mounting one of the world's first legal challenges over corporate greenwashing have expanded a case against gas producer Santos Ltd., raising fresh allegations about the company's climate ...
Viewpoint: ‘Take-Home COVID’ Claims May Lead to Future Insurance Disputes
"Take-home COVID" claims are claims brought against an employer by the spouse or child of an employee who caught COVID-19 in the workplace and brought it home, infecting a spouse or child and causing ...
COVID Impacts Linger in Courtrooms, Often a Disadvantage for Defendants
Courts have reopened and trials have resumed, but the impacts of COVID-19 continue to linger in the judicial system, a panel of claims litigation experts said during the Combined Claims Conference on ...
Sunoco Subsidiary Sues AIG’s National Union Over Climate Change Lawsuit Coverage
Sunoco subsidiary Aloha Petroleum has filed a federal lawsuit in Hawaii against AIG's National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, saying the insurer has breached its duty to defend Aloha ...
S.C. Joins 3 Other State Supreme Courts, Rules No Coverage for COVID-19 Shutdown
The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday became the fourth state high court in the nation to rule that the virus that causes COVID-19 cannot cause a direct physical damage or loss covered by a ...
J&J to End Global Sales of Talc-Based Baby Powder
Johnson & Johnson will stop selling talc-based baby powder globally in 2023, the drugmaker said on Thursday, more than two years after it ended U.S. sales of a product that drew thousands of ...
Litigation Funders Are Fueling a Rise in UK Class Actions
Financiers are helping to fuel a rise in U.S.-style class-action lawsuits in the UK courts, lured by the promise of big payouts. The British litigation finance industry — which pays legal fees ...
I Registered the Term Nuclear Verdicts®. Here’s Why.
In October 2019, a Philadelphia jury delivered an $8 billion verdict against Johnson & Johnson for its improper marketing of the antipsychotic drug Risperdal as a treatment for ...