Litigation/Liability Trends
Commercial Auto, Workers Comp: Loss Leaders in the Oil Patch
There's no doubt that new advancements in the practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, are driving the current production boom in the oil patch. The technique, which is used to retrieve oil and ...
Reputations Injured by LinkedIn Reminders? Judge Gives Partial Go-Ahead to Suit
A federal judge said LinkedIn Corp must face a lawsuit by customers who claimed it violated their privacy by accessing their external email accounts, downloading their contacts' email addresses and ...
On the Road: Are America’s Guardrails Dangerous?
Before dawn on Feb. 23, Darius Williams ran his Nissan Sentra off a North Carolina interstate at 80 miles per hour. A length of guardrail pierced his door, according to the police report, driving the ...
Facebook’s Zuckerberg, Other Directors Sued Over Pay Plan
Mark Zuckerberg and other members of Facebook Inc.'s board have been sued by a shareholder who claimed a policy letting them annually award directors more than $150 million of stock each if they ...
U.S. Admits it Erroneously Understated Key Keystone XL Pipeline Stats
The U.S. State Department on Friday corrected several errors it made in a key study evaluating the impact of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, including an understatement of how many people could be ...
Judge Rules Bonus Awards to WTC Cleanup Workers Came Too Soon
A judge acted prematurely in awarding a $55 million bonus payment to thousands of rescue and cleanup workers at the World Trade Center site who settled lawsuits against New YorkCity over damage to ...
As Firms Ratchet Up IT Security, Data Breaches Remain Unstoppable
With hackers stealing tens of millions of customer details in recent months, firms across the globe are ratcheting up IT security and nervously wondering which of them is next. The reality, cyber ...
Mining Underwriting Opportunities With CoMeta
Speaking during a session at the Advisen Casualty Insights conference in March, Robert Reville, the chief executive officer of Praedicat, noted that while all mass litigation, historically, has been ...