Liability News
Carriers Challenge CFA Over its No-Fault Auto Insurance Report
A national consumer group has charged that innocent drivers in most states are being forced to pay more for auto insurance for accidents in which they are not at fault. The report from the Consumer ...
Greenberg, New York AG Dispute Admission of Wrongdoing in Fraud Settlement
Almost a dozen years ago, then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed a fraud lawsuit against former American Insurance Group Inc. CEO Maurice "Hank" Greenberg over two reinsurance ...
DuPont, Chemours Will Fork Over $671M to Resolve Chemical Leak Lawsuits
DuPont and Chemours Co have agreed to pay $671 million in cash to settle thousands of lawsuits involving a leak of a toxic chemical used to make Teflon, the companies said on Monday. Shares of ...
BMW Will Resolve Vehicle Water Damage Lawsuit for up to $478M
German automaker BMW AG has agreed to pay up to $477.7 million to settle a class-action lawsuit covering about 318,000 U.S. luxury car owners who may have suffered water damage harming electrical ...
17 Months Later, VW Emissions Scandal Legal Trouble Keeps Coming
Luxembourg has launched criminal proceedings over Volkswagen's diesel emissions scandal, showing the German carmaker is still struggling to draw a line under the crisis some 17 months after it broke. ...
Farmers Sue Top U.S. Chicken Processors Over Their Pay
A group of U.S. chicken farmers sued the country's biggest poultry processors, including Tyson Foods Inc, for allegedly conspiring to depress their pay, the latest accusation of improper collusion in ...
Conflict Over Who Will Pay for San Francisco’s $750M Tilting Tower
Nina Agabian, a retired director of research in global health science at the University of California, bought a 29th-floor apartment in San Francisco's Millennium Tower in 2010. "It was supposed to ...
Facebook on Losing Side of $500M Virtual Reality Headset Verdict
The virtual reality headset maker that Facebook Inc. bought in 2014 for $2 billion used stolen technology, a jury said in awarding $500 million damages to ZeniMax Media Inc. Jurors in Dallas federal ...