Litigation/Liability Trends
Alnylam Files Patent Infringement Lawsuits Against Pfizer, Moderna
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. on March 17 filed lawsuits in Delaware federal court against Pfizer Inc. and Moderna Inc., claiming their multibillion-dollar mRNA COVID-19 vaccines infringe on its ...
Colo. Supreme Court Rules Adjuster Not Personally Liable for Denied Claim
A Colorado law that allows claimants to collect double coverage if a claim is unreasonably denied or delayed does not allow plaintiffs to hold claims adjusters personally liable, the state Supreme ...
Commercial Litigation Funding and Social Inflation: A Non-Sequitur
Voices in the insurance industry have recently called for the regulation of commercial litigation funding on the ground that it is "a key driver of social inflation." Such calls to action lack ...
J&J’s Controversial Prison Testing Resurfaces in Baby Powder Lawsuits
More than 50 years ago, nearly a dozen men incarcerated outside of Philadelphia enrolled in an experiment funded by Johnson & Johnson, according to unsealed documents. Now, those studies have ...
Lawyer-Turned InsurTech Founder Looks Into Cloud to Settle Tesla Claims
While Tesla has designs on using the data it collects to price insurance policies, the founder of an InsurTech is using it for the other end of insurance transactions—to unravel the story of ...
Who Owns Tesla Vehicle Performance Data?
At the end of an interview with the founder of Quantiv Risk, an InsurTech that helps carriers make sense of performance data from vehicles with advanced driver assistance systems, Carrier Management ...
On the Highway: A Litigator’s View From the Driver’s Seat of a Tesla
In 2016, Mike Nelson, the founder of InsurTech Quantiv Risk, bought his first Tesla and embarked on a 12-state cross country trip to get a first-hand understanding of where automobile technology was ...
U.S. Supreme Court Spurns Google Bid to Avoid Shareholder Lawsuit
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Alphabet Inc's attempt to nix a lawsuit by shareholders accusing the Google parent company of fraudulently concealing a security glitch that left ...