Litigation/Liability Trends
State Farm Agrees to Settle Katrina Claims Lawsuit With Mississippi AG
Mississippi has quietly settled its lawsuit against State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. for allegedly minimizing its Hurricane Katrina payments to policyholders, leaving the state to compensate ...
Tesla Sued by Drivers Over Alleged False Autopilot, Full Self-Driving Claims
Tesla Inc. was sued on Wednesday in a proposed class action accusing Elon Musk's electric car company of misleading the public by falsely advertising its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving features. The ...
Twitter Whistle-Blower Describes ‘Ticking Bomb’ of Security Gaps
Twitter Inc.'s security lapses were so grave that they threatened national security, the company's former head of security-turned-whistle-blower told senators on Tuesday. Speaking before the Senate ...
Juul Reaches $439 Million Settlement Over Marketing to Children
Juul Labs Inc. reached an agreement in principle to pay $438.5 million to 33 states to resolve a two-year bipartisan probe into the e-cigarette manufacturer's marketing and sales practices, ...
Moderna Sues Pfizer/BioNTech for Patent Infringement Over COVID Vaccine
Moderna is suing Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech for patent infringement in the development of the first COVID-19 vaccine approved in the United States, alleging they copied technology that ...
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 ...