Liability News
Appeals Court Skeptical About Microsoft Women’s Claims of Unequal Pay
Women engineers who claim Microsoft Corp. discriminates against them for pay and promotions faced tough questions from a federal appeals court weighing whether their ground-breaking lawsuit should ...
The Story Behind a Quiet California Fire Season That Turned Into Chaos
The 2019 California wildfire season was remarkably, almost happily, quiet. Until it wasn't. October arrived and 80,000 acres erupted in flames. More than 300,000 people were evacuated and more than 3 ...
Facebook Sued Over Allegations of Age and Gender Bias in Financial Services Ads
Facebook Inc was sued on Thursday in a proposed class action accusing it of discriminating against older and female users by withholding advertising for financial services such as bank accounts, ...
A Bayer Roundup Settlement Will Take Some Time: Lawyer
Even after three big losses in court trials and a plunge in market value, Bayer AG isn't close to settling tens of thousands of U.S. lawsuits claiming its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, according ...
Opinion: States Unwise to Tackle Climate Change by Suing Big Oil
A growing number of cities and states want to turn climate change lawsuits against oil companies into the next tobacco or opioid litigation. In principle, that seems like a truly terrible idea. Such ...
J&J’s Own Expert, While With FDA, Found Asbestos in Baby Powder
Ever since Johnson & Johnson disclosed this month that a government test had turned up asbestos in its Baby Powder, the company has attacked the validity of the result. On Tuesday, for example, ...
Allergan Will Fork Over $750M to Settle Alzheimer’s Therapy Lawsuit
Allergan Plc would pay $750 million to settle a class action lawsuit from a group of direct purchasers of Alzheimer's disease therapy Namenda, the drugmaker said, in a resolution to the litigation ...
Wildfire Fallout: State of Emergency and Historic Evacuation of California’s Wine Country
Fires burning out of control in northern California prompted an historic evacuation in the state's famed wine country, razed homes, shuttered freeways and prompted the governor to declare a state of ...