Litigation/Liability Trends
Jury Finds Toyota Liable in First Unintended Acceleration Crash Trial
Toyota Motor Corp. has been found liable in an unintended acceleration lawsuit in the U.S., one of the first such cases to go to trial since the Japanese carmaker began recalling millions of vehicles ...
Delaware Business Court’s Private Arbitration Ruled Unconstitutional by U.S. Court
Delaware's legal industry suffered a blow when a federal court found on Wednesday the state violated the U.S. Constitution with its novel system of allowing judges to arbitrate private business ...
SEC Relying on Firms Strengthening Internal Compliance Programs
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is calling on corporate executives and boards to strengthen internal compliance programs as funding constraints limit the agency's reach, SEC Chairman Mary ...
Court: Goldman Must Pay Legal Costs for Programmer ‘Officer’ with VP Title
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. must pay some legal fees incurred by a former computer programmer accused of stealing code from the bank because his title of vice president made him a bank officer at the ...
Supreme Court Denies Privacy Claim, Allows Commercial Resale of Driver Records
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider whether a unit of Thomson Reuters Corp. can obtain and sell information on drivers provided by state agencies without violating a federal privacy ...
Geithner Nixes Greenberg Lawyer’s Request for Draft of Book on AIG Bailout
Former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner joined the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in declining to give drafts of a book he's writing to Maurice "Hank" Greenberg for a lawsuit challenging the ...
TVA Insurers Have Paid $92 Million of Ash Spill Cleanup Thus Far
About $42 million has been recovered in the last week by the Tennessee Valley Authority to help pay for more than $1 billion in expenses stemming from the cleanup at the 2008 ash spill at the ...
Lehman’s Australia Creditors Approve $48 Million Insurance Deal
Creditors of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s Australian unit approved an insurance payment plan allowing them to recover about $48 million of investment losses. U.S. insurers agreed to provide $45 ...