Liability News
AXA Exposed: Carrier Discloses It Covered Two Contractors Working on Notre-Dame Restoration
French insurance firm AXA said on Tuesday it provided insurance coverage for two of the contracting firms that were working on Notre-Dame's restoration prior to the blaze that devastated the ...
GM Hit With Suit Alleging it Failed to Warn Cadillac Owners of Headlight Defects
General Motors Co. failed to warn U.S. drivers of a Cadillac sport-utility vehicle about a defect that causes headlights to malfunction because moisture gets inside the glass, creating a safety ...
GE’s ‘Incomplete’ Hudson River Cleanup Leading to New York Lawsuit Against the EPA
New York state officials plan to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for allowing General Electric Co to stop clearing the Hudson River of PCB contamination before the cleanup work was ...
Several Oil Companies Allege U.S. Government Sold Toxic Crude
Exxon Mobil Corp. is the latest company to raise concerns that a stockpile of U.S. government crude is tainted with poisonous gas. The American energy giant said some of the oil it purchased last ...
Shareholder Suit Accuses Boeing of Concealing Safety Shortfalls in 737 MAX Planes
Boeing Co's legal troubles grew on Tuesday as a new lawsuit accused the company of defrauding shareholders by concealing safety deficiencies in its 737 MAX planes before two fatal crashes led to ...
Fiat Chrysler Will Pay $10M to Resolve U.S. Investor Suit Over Diesel Controversy
Italian-American automaker Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV has agreed to pay $110 million to settle a lawsuit alleging it misled U.S. investors over excess diesel emissions and failed to comply with ...
Cosby Accuses AIG of Reaching Unauthorized Settlement in Sex Abuse Suits
Seven women who said Bill Cosby sexually assaulted them decades ago and then labeled them liars by denying it have settled defamation lawsuits against the imprisoned ...
Microsoft Insurer Fails to Recoup $175M from Xbox Chipmaker Hit by Fire
Microsoft Corp.'s captive insurer has lost its bid to recover $175 million in costs the software maker said it incurred in 2013 to replace memory chips that a manufacturer failed to deliver because ...