Litigation/Liability Trends
COVID-19 Aftermath: Employers May Exclude Payroll to Employees Not Working for Workers Comp
Businesses that have suspended operations due to COVID-19 but continue to pay employees who are at home but not working will not have to include the payroll paid to these employees in the calculation ...
Businesses Contemplating Reopening Fear Lawsuits From Sick Patrons
Whenever U.S. stores, restaurants and theaters reopen from coronavirus shutdowns, they may face an unexpected problem: lawsuits from sick patrons and workers. Business owners hit hard by Covid-19 are ...
VW Has Settled Majority of German Consumer Diesel Emission Lawsuits
Volkswagen has reached settlements with 200,000 of the 260,000 claimants participating in a class action lawsuit brought by German consumer group VZBV over the carmaker's rigging of diesel emissions ...
Corporations Smacked With Double the Hacking Attacks as Employees Work From Home
Hacking activity against corporations in the United States and other countries more than doubled by some measures last month as digital thieves took advantage of security weakened by pandemic ...
Could Declining Fertility Lead to Public Health Litigation?
In January 2016, a 38-year-old man reported to a medical clinic in Iowa for a circumcision and was mistakenly given a vasectomy, rendering him infertile. Late last year, a jury awarded the man $2 ...
Opinion: Leaders Should Resist Rewriting Property, Business Interruption Coverage
Soon after the attacks on the World Trade Center and other locations on the morning of September 11, President Bush declared that the atrocities were "an act of war." That statement prompted a call ...
McDonald’s Accused in Class Action Suit of ‘Pervasive Sexual Harassment’
McDonald's Corp has been hit with a class action lawsuit accusing it of subjecting female employees in its corporate-owned fast-food restaurants in Florida to widespread sexual harassment. The ...
Doubts Remain Whether Postponed Olympics Will Be Held Even in 2021
As the coronavirus spreads in Japan, the chief executive of the Tokyo Games said Friday [April 10] he can't guarantee the postponed Olympics will be staged next year – even with the long delay. ...