Litigation/Liability Trends
China Cracks Down on Cryptocurrencies, Banning All of Them
China's most powerful regulators on Friday intensified a crackdown on cryptocurrencies with a blanket ban on all crypto transactions and mining, hitting bitcoin and other major coins and pressuring ...
Lawsuit Accuses United Airlines of Refusing Employee Exemptions to COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
United Airlines Inc is facing claims that it unlawfully denied religious and medical exemptions from a requirement that employees receive COVID-19 vaccines after allegedly making it difficult for ...
Judge Sends Cincinnati Insurance COVID Coverage Question to Jury
A federal judge in Kansas City has cleared a restaurant group's COVID-related business interruption claim for jury trial, holding that an 8th Circuit Court decision that found no coverage was owed in ...
Biden Administration Fights Ransomware Attacks by Targeting Cryptocurrency Pipelines
The Biden administration plans a fresh campaign against ransomware attacks through sanctions to cut off criminals' cryptocurrency pipelines, and it urged companies to report extortion attempts and ...
Is Climate Litigation Covered by Insurance?
Federal or state court? How will attribution science impact climate litigation? The questions aren't the only ones of interest to insurers and reinsurers wanting to understand the potential for mass ...
‘Attribution Science’ May Help Plaintiffs Push Climate Suits Ahead
Although a U.S. Supreme Court decision put an end to climate lawsuits alleging violations of the federal common law of public nuisance, a second round of state actions may get further, researchers ...
Social Inflation or Science: What Is Fueling Climate Litigation?
A rising amount of litigation tied to the environmental and health impacts of greenhouse gas emissions prompted a question from the leader of a liability risk analytics company recently: "Is it about ...
With Help From Insurers, Stanford Ponzi Scheme Recovery Tops $1 Billion
A court-appointed receiver has recouped more than $1 billion for victims of Texas financier Allen Stanford's Ponzi scheme, the largest by dollar amount other than Bernard Madoff's fraud, the ...