Liability News
Carriers, California Utility Blast Rival Plan That Would Pay Fire Victims Before Insurers
PG&E Corp. and a group of insurers urged a judge to reject a competing reorganization plan for the bankrupt utility because the proposal would pay fire victims who lost their homes ahead of ...
Collapse of Thomas Cook Leads to Massive Tourist Airlift
The U.K. government deployed the "largest repatriation in peacetime history" to bring home more than 150,000 tourists stranded on overseas beaches and in vacation hotspots by the collapse of tour ...
Vaping Targeted by a Number of U.S. Lawsuits
Several deaths and potentially hundreds of illnesses have been tied to e-cigarettes, which allow users to inhale nicotine vapor, often flavored, without smoking. Lawsuits have been filed against ...
California Wildfire Season Begins With Return of the Santa Ana Winds
The Santa Ana winds have returned to California, a signal to the state's residents that the wildfire season has begun in earnest. The winds are created by high pressure over Nevada's Great Basin as ...
Score for Privacy: Google Email-Scanning Lawsuit Allowed to Proceed
Google is still fighting a lawsuit over surreptitious scanning of emails of non-Gmail users almost three years after it agreed to stop the practice. In a tentative ruling Thursday, a judge in ...
California Utility Reaches $11B Settlement Over Wildfire Claims
California power producer PG&E Corp said on Friday it has reached an $11 billion settlement with entities representing about 85% percent of insurance subrogation claims relating to 2017 and 2018 ...
J&J Must Pay at Least $37.2M to Plaintiffs Who Blamed Cancers on Talc Powder
Johnson & Johnson must pay at least $37.2 million to four consumers who blamed asbestos-tainted talc for their cancers in the company's latest loss in nationwide litigation over its iconic baby ...
Facebook Users Gain Liability Leverage in Cambridge Analytica Suit
Facebook Inc. users suing over the social network's worst-ever privacy scandal gained leverage to pry into its internal records to back up their claims that it failed to safeguard their personal ...