Litigation/Liability Trends
COVID Intrigue: Pfizer Accuses Departing Employee of Stealing Vaccine Secrets
Pfizer Inc has sued a longtime employee for allegedly stealing "scores" of confidential documents, including some related to its COVID-19 vaccine, as she prepared to jump to a competitor. In a ...
Travelers Head Toward Cancellation Mode as Omicron Emerges
Some would-be travelers are considering canceling or delaying trip plans in response to fresh curbs prompted by the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, travel agents said on Monday, threatening an ...
CVS, Walgreens, Walmart Found Liable in Opioid Crisis
CVS Health Corp. and Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. helped create a public-health crisis by failing to properly monitor opioid prescriptions, the drug industry's latest loss in the expanding ...
Phillips Claims FDA’s Ventilator Safety Issues May Be Overestimated
Dutch medical equipment maker Philips on Wednesday said U.S. regulators might have overestimated the number of safety issues raised by customers related to its recall of ventilators in which a ...
Insurers See Victory in Infrastructure Bill’s Embrace of Marijuana Impairment Research
The $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that became law last week earmarks billions for projects to improve safety for cars and trucks and protect properties from floods and wildfires. But one of the ...
Lloyd’s, Travelers, Other Insurers Lose in JPMorgan Appeal Over Bear Stearns Settlement
New York's highest court ruled on Tuesday that JPMorgan Chase & Co is entitled to insurance coverage for $140 million of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission settlement with the former Bear ...
U.S. Govt. Wants Appeals Court to Immediately Lift Stay on COVID Workplace Vaccine Rule
The U.S. government asked a federal appeals court to immediately lift a court-ordered stay on a sweeping workplace COVID-19 vaccine rule to avoid "enormous" harm to public health, or alternatively to ...
8 Emerging Risks to Watch: Climate Change, Tainted Products, Deepfakes
Even the most vigilant insurers and reinsurers scanning the risk landscape for potential future liability problems are likely to fall into landmines. What insurance risks of the immediate or distant ...