Litigation/Liability Trends
Allstate Settles Mortgage-Backed Securities Suit Against Citigroup
Allstate Corp. and Citigroup Inc. agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by the insurer in New York state court accusing the bank of fraudulently selling hundreds of millions of dollars of mortgage-backed ...
Supreme Court Lets Stand Ruling on Disabled Employee’s Right to Job
The U.S. Supreme Court turned away an appeal by United Airlines that sought to limit a federal law that requires employers to accommodate disabled workers. The justices today left intact a federal ...
AIG Ex-CEO Greenberg Hopes Court Will End Spitzer Suit Over Reinsurance
Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, the former chief executive officer of American International Group Inc., is set to ask New York's highest court today to clear his name and dismiss what remains of an ...Accounting Professors Back BP’s Fight To Cap Oil Spill Payouts
A group of accountancy professors is backing BP's fight to cap the U.S. oil spill compensation payouts it has to fund as the cash outflow threatens to add billions of dollars to its bill for the ...
Insurers Lose Bid to Halt Funding of Pittsburgh Corning’s Asbestos Trust
Pittsburgh Corning Corp.'s bankruptcy judge overruled final objections by insurance companies trying to halt the reorganization of the building-supply company. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Judith Fitzgerald ...
Insurers Oppose Pittsburgh Corning Bankruptcy Exit Plan
Insurers fighting Pittsburgh Corning Corp.'s reorganization have asked a judge to rescind her initial approval of the building-supply company's plan to exit bankruptcy. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Judith ...
U.S. Needs Stronger Action Against Trade Secret Theft by China: Commission
Theft of trade secrets, chiefly by China, costs the U.S. economy $300 billion a year and must be fought with sanctions as tough as those used against terrorism and drug trafficking, an advisory panel ...
AIG Sues Convicted U. of Virginia Killer Huguely Over Insurance Probe
George W. Huguely V, the ex-University of Virginia lacrosse player convicted of murdering his sometime girlfriend in May 2010, was sued by American International Group Inc. over his refusal to ...