Litigation/Liability Trends
Greenberg Argument: U.S. Bailout of AIG Extorted Shareholders
The U.S. extorted American International Group Inc. shareholders when it extended a $182 billion taxpayer bailout at the height of the 2008 financial crisis, a lawyer for Maurice "Hank" Greenberg ...
Work-Related BYOD Use: Potentially More Costly Than Previously Thought
The California Court of Appeal, 2nd District, issued a decision that has broad implications for businesses with California-based employees. In Cochran v. Schwan's Home Service Inc. (Cal. App. 2 Dist. ...
Amtrak Seeking More than $500M From Insurers for Sandy Losses
Amtrak filed a lawsuit last week against more than a dozen insurers, claiming that the railroad operator is entitled to recoup additional proceeds for Superstorm Sandy losses from its insurers. ...
Nearly 2,000 U.S. Flights Disrupted by Disgruntled Worker Setting a Fire
A fire that police said was started by a contractor at a Chicago area air-traffic center grounded about 1,800 flights across the U.S., disrupting major routes run by Southwest Airlines Co., American ...
Six Movie and TV Companies Win Drone Use Approval
U.S. aviation regulators loosened restrictions on the commercial use of drones on Thursday, granting six television and movie production companies permission to use the small, remotely piloted ...
New ‘Shellshock’ Computer Bug Already Drawing Hacker Attention
Hackers have begun exploiting the newly identified "Shellshock" computer bug, using fast-moving worm viruses to scan for vulnerable systems and then infect them, researchers warned on Thursday. ...
Nursing Home Trial Challenges Liability Transfers to Shell Companies
Juanita Jackson died in July 2003, five weeks after she was removed from a Florida nursing home where her family said continual neglect led to multiple bedsores, malnutrition and a fall that injured ...
Marijuana and Workers Comp
There are some who believe medical marijuana and the workplace are a potent mix just waiting to be stirred as increasingly more states approve the herb and its derivatives for medicinal use. Not only ...