Litigation/Liability Trends
FAA Reports Recent Near-Collision of Jet With Drone
Federal officials say a U.S. jet airliner nearly collided in March with an airborne drone in the sky over Tallahassee, Florida. Jim Williams of the Federal Aviation Administration's unmanned aircraft ...
Class Action Threat: Corp. Bylaws Can Make Suing and Losing Investors Pay Legal Costs, Says Delaware Supreme Ct.
Delaware's Supreme Court has ruled that corporations can adopt bylaws requiring an investor who sues and loses to pay the company's legal costs, potentially upending the economics of a booming type ...Cyber-Security Software Boom Boosts Symantec’s Prospects
Symantec Corp. is benefiting as hacking attacks fuel higher demand for cyber-security software, while cost cuts are bolstering profits. The biggest maker of antivirus tools issued a revenue forecast ...
Insurers Tapped for Part of Potential $100M Settlement Over U.S. Meningitis Outbreak
The trustee overseeing the bankruptcy of a Massachusetts pharmacy linked to a 2012 meningitis outbreak that killed 64 people asked a judge on Tuesday to approve a settlement that would pay out $100 ...
Samsung to Pay Apple Roughly $120M for Three Infringed Patents
A U.S. jury on Monday left the total damages Samsung Electronics Co Ltd must pay Apple Inc. unchanged at $119.6 million, after additional deliberations in a trial where the South Korean smartphone ...
Defending Food Labeling Claims at the Class Certification Stage: A Recipe for Success
If you are shocked and surprised that your Crunch Berries have no berries, your Froot Loops contain no fruit and your "all natural" ice cream contains genetically modified organisms (GMOs), you're ...
Asbestos Liabilities: The New (Old) Emerging Risk
The financial challenges presented by asbestos liabilities are not fading away as most insurance professionals have long hoped. In fact, A.M. Best raised its estimate of ultimate asbestos liability ...
New Drugs Target Asbestos-Linked Cancer; Japan Faces ‘Asbestos Tsunami’
Heather Von St. James, 45, remembers her father, a demolition worker, coming home covered in dust and dirt. Still, she'd hug him each night and, sometimes, put on his coat and shoes to play. Thirty ...