Litigation/Liability Trends
Insurers Hope to Identify AirAsia Crash Beneficiaries by Month’s End
Insurers have begun processing claims in the crash of an IndonesiaAirAsia aircraft last month and hope to identify the beneficiaries by the end of January, an official from Indonesia's financial ...
Bank of America’s Countrywide Mortgage Bonds Trigger Ambac Lawsuit
Ambac Assurance Corp sued Bank of America Corp to recoup hundreds of millions of dollars of losses from insuring roughly $1.68 billion of securities backed at least in part by risky mortgages from ...
Apple Storage Space Shortage in iOS 8 Spurs Customer Lawsuit
Apple Inc. misleads consumers about the amount of storage space used by its iOS 8 operating system in iPhones, iPods and iPads, two users claimed in a suit targeting the software, adding a new ...
First Bodies and Debris Discovered in AirAsia Indonesia Crash
Indonesian search crews recovered debris and bodies floating in the sea from the AirAsia Bhd. airliner that went missing three days ago with 162 people on board, as investigators seek to determine ...
North Korea May Have Had Outside Help in Sony Pictures Hacking
U.S. investigators believe that North Korea likely hired hackers from outside the country to help with last month's massive cyber attack against Sony Pictures, an official close to the investigation ...
U.S. Regulator Seeking New Accounts of Guardrail Accidents
A U.S. highway regulator opened an Internet portal this week allowing the public to report accidents tied to a Trinity Industries Inc. guardrail system, which has been linked by lawsuits to at least ...
Report: S&P Close to Settling Real Estate Bond Rating Investigation
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services is nearing a settlement with regulators over their investigation of how the company graded real-estate bonds, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people ...
Isn’t It Ridiculous? Top 10 Crazy Lawsuits of 2014
Earlier this month, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform announced its list of the Top 10 Most Ridiculous Lawsuits of 2014: Plaintiff in Pending Disability Lawsuit Topples Huge, ...