Liability News
Brazil Is Suing Top Tobacco Firms to Recover Public Health Treatment Costs
Brazil is suing the world's largest cigarette makers, British American Tobacco Plc and Philip Morris International, in a landmark case aimed at recovering the public health treatment costs of ...
MGM Resorts: $751M Insurance Cover Will Help Address $800M Las Vegas Shooting Settlement
Casino giant MGM Resorts told federal regulators last Thursday it might pay up to $800 million to settle liability lawsuits stemming from the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas — the deadliest in ...
Five More States Sue Purdue Over OxyContin Marketing
Purdue Pharma LP and its billionaire owners are being sued by five more states alleging the company's aggressive marketing of the OxyContin painkiller triggered a vast addiction epidemic that has ...
Europe’s Biggest Insurers Hit With Massive Bill From Boeing Crashes
Europe's biggest insurers are on the hook for as much as $450 million from a pair of airline crashes involving Boeing Co. 737 Max planes. Munich Re reckons it could pay 150 million euros ($168 ...
Marine Insurance Premiums Could Rise for Some After Saudi Ship, Facility Attacks
Asian shippers and refiners have put ships heading to the Middle East on alert and are expecting a possible rise in marine insurance premiums after recent attacks on Saudi oil tankers and pipeline ...
J&J Reportedly Will Fork Over $1B to Resolve Most Metal-Hip Suits
Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay about $1 billion to resolve most lawsuits claiming it sold defective metal-on-metal hips that ultimately had to be removed, according to people with knowledge of ...
Lawsuits Accuse Two U.S. Solar Firms of Workplace Racism
Two residential solar companies have now been accused in separate lawsuits of discriminating against African American employees in warehouses. Six former employees of New Jersey-based Momentum Solar ...
Judge Approves $307.5M Fiat Chrysler Diesel Emissions Settlement
A federal judge in San Francisco on Friday approved a $307.5 million civil settlement for about 100,000 U.S. owners of Fiat Chrysler diesel vehicles that the government said had illegal software that ...