Litigation/Liability Trends
Security Pros See Insurance Pricing, Product Liability as Cybersecurity Tools
Alarmed by mounting cyber threats around the world and across industries, a growing number of security experts see aggressive government action as the best hope for averting disaster. Even though ...
Target’s Cyber Attack Fallout Cost $148M in Q2; $38M to Insurers
Target Corp., the retailer that chose a new chief executive officer last week, said second-quarter profit trailed its forecast as U.S. sales remained weak and its Canadian operations continued to ...
Rhode Island’s Tobacco Debt Deal Draws Oppenheimer Lawsuit
Rhode Island's plan to sell $594 million in debt backed by tobacco-company payments was challenged by OppenheimerFunds Inc., which claims the deal violates the rights of current bondholders to ...
Research Shows Ripple Effect of Emergency Room Closings on Nearby Hospitals
In the first analysis of its kind, UC San Francisco research shows that emergency department closures can have a ripple effect on patient outcomes at nearby hospitals. In a study of more than 16 ...
GM Compensation Fund Opens; Hundreds of Claims Expected
Lawyers say several hundred claims are expected to be filed at the start of a GM-financed program, which launched Friday to compensate victims of a faulty ignition switch on some of its vehicles. ...
McDonald’s Corp. Risks Liability in Employee Complaints, NLRB Rules
McDonald's Corp, not just its franchisees, can be held liable in complaints that the company violated employee rights, an official at the U.S. National Labor Relations Board said in a letter made ...
Greenberg Faces January Trial in 9-Year-Old Spitzer Suit
Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, the former chairman of American International Group Inc., will go on trial in January after more than nine years of legal jousting over former New York Attorney General ...
Regulators Quiz Google on Actions Related to Privacy Ruling
Google's handling of "right to be forgotten" requests from European citizens came under fire by regulators after the search engine company restricted the removal of Internet links to European sites ...