Litigation/Liability Trends
Facebook to Pay $90M to Settle Privacy Lawsuit Over User Tracking
Facebook agreed to pay $90 million to settle a decade-old privacy lawsuit accusing it of tracking users' Internet activity even after they logged out of the social media website. A proposed ...
After Months of Decline, Florida Claims Litigation Rose Sharply in January
Just when insurers saw signs that last year's reform legislation may be having an impact on claims litigation, bad news appeared in the inbox Wednesday. CaseGlide, the maker of litigation management ...
Gunmaker Remington to Pay $73M to Sandy Hook Families
Remington Arms will pay $73 million to the families of five adults and four children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, the families said on Tuesday, marking the first time a ...
Hertz Customers Who Claim They Were Falsely Arrested Score Win in Court
Hertz Corp., battling hundreds of customers who say they were falsely arrested for auto theft after renting cars, was ordered by a federal judge to disclose how many renters it accuses every year. ...
Windstorm Coverage Doesn’t Include Flood Damage: 5th Circuit
An insurance policy that lists named windstorms among the covered perils doesn't cover flood damages caused by Hurricane Harvey even though flooding wasn't specifically excluded, a panel of the 5th ...
Reuters Report: J&J Crafts Secret Plan to Cap Litigation Payouts to Cancer Victims
Johnson & Johnson created a plan last year to limit the financial bleeding from billions of dollars in jury awards to plaintiffs who alleged the company's Baby Powder and other talc products ...
Court Siding With Merck Over War Exclusion for Cyber Attack a Warning to Insurers
Last month the Superior Court of New Jersey ruled insurers cannot use a policy exclusion to avoid covering about $1.4 billion in damages Merck & Co. said it suffered from a spring 2017 cyber ...
Colo. Supreme Court the Latest to Decide if Claims Adjusters Can Be Held Personally Liable
For the third time in three years, a state supreme court is being asked to decide whether a claims adjuster can be held personally liable for bad faith. The Colorado Supreme Court on Jan. 11 heard ...