Litigation/Liability Trends
Insurers, Reinsurers Ready for Fight Over UK COVID-19 Business Interruption Payments
Top insurance companies, ordered by Britain's highest court to pay thousands of small businesses millions of pounds in claims for COVID-19 disruption, are facing a battle with reinsurers over who ...
Tokio Marine Probes Validity of Greensill Insurance Policies Following Finance Firm’s Insolvency
Japanese insurer Tokio Marine Holdings Inc said on Wednesday it is investigating the validity of insurance policies provided by its Australian unit to speciality finance firm Greensill. Greensill ...
Insurers, Abuse Victims Criticize Boy Scouts Reorganization Plan
The official committee representing child sex abuse victims in the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy has agreed to give the BSA more time to respond to a lawsuit challenging BSA's claims that several ...
Microsoft Outlook Patch Not Preventing ‘Active Threat,’ White House Warns
The White House on Sunday urged computer network operators to take further steps to gauge whether their systems were targeted amid a hack of Microsoft Corp's Outlook email program, saying a recent ...
GEICO Suit Claiming It Overcharged on Auto Insurance During Pandemic Moves Forward
The auto insurer GEICO Corp, a unit of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc, must face a proposed class action claiming it overcharged policyholders as the coronavirus pandemic led to less driving ...
First Anniversary of COVID-19 Shutdown Orders Could Spur New Wave of Lawsuits
The upcoming anniversary of COVID-19 shutdown orders may reveal whether a significant number of policyholders have been waiting on the sidelines before suing their insurers for business-interruption ...
Microsoft: Chinese Hackers Struck Groups Via Server Software
A China-linked cyber-espionage group has been remotely plundering email inboxes using freshly discovered flaws in Microsoft mail server software, the company and outside researchers said on Tuesday - ...
Hiscox Loses Money From Virus Claims; Cites ‘Brand Damage’ From Court Case
British insurer Hiscox reported a big loss for 2020 after a jump in claims from businesses disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic and also faces "brand damage" from a legal dispute over policy wordings ...