Litigation/Liability Trends
India’s Nuclear Power Plant Construction Plans Stirs Accident Liability Debate
It's a $182 billion question for India with no easy answer. That's the estimated amount the country plans to spend on nuclear power plants to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi's pledge to provide ...
E-Cigs Advance, But Uncertainty Remains About Risks or Benefits
From Apple Pie to Bubbly Bubble Gum, Irish Car Bomb or Martian bar - from Mars!, the flavors of electronic cigarette offer something for every taste. Researchers have counted 7,764 varieties of ...
S&P to Pay $80M Fine, Accept Suspension in Mortgage Bond Rating Case
Standard & Poor's agreed to be suspended from rating the biggest part of the commercial-mortgage bond market and pay almost $80 million to state and federal authorities over claims it bent ...
RSA Will Battle Ex-Executive’s Unfair Dismissal Allegation
RSA Insurance Group Plc said it will fight a constructive dismissal case filed by the former head of its Irish unit, who stepped down more than a year ago amid an accounting scandal. Philip Smith, ...
Suits Against Haliburton, KBR Concerning Overseas Conduct to Proceed
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed lawsuits to move forward against government contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan by declining to hear appeals filed by KBR Inc and Halliburton Co. The high ...
U.S. Supreme Court May Raise Bar For Housing Discrimination Suits
The U.S. Supreme Court is positioned to wipe out a major category of housing-discrimination suits, and civil rights groups are running out of ways to stop it. In arguments Wednesday in Washington, ...
Beleaguered Ex-S&P Exec Attempts to Block SEC Administrative Charges
A former executive of Standard & Poor's sued the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday to block the regulator from bringing administrative charges against her over credit ratings for ...
Global Nuclear Accident Compensation Fund Launches With Japan Signing
Japan signed on to a global nuclear- compensation treaty in Vienna that will create a fund to help victims of accidents like the one that devastated Fukushima Dai- Ichi in 2011. The Convention on ...