Liability News
Judge to Uber: Did You Encourage a Private Investigator to Lie?
A federal judge wants to know whether Uber Technologies Inc. encouraged a private investigator to lie as part of a probe of a customer who sued over how the ride-hailing app sets fares. Connecticut ...
Puerto Rico Insurers Urge Talks to Avoid Major Bond Default
Puerto Rico's bond insurers are urging the commonwealth to negotiate with creditors as speculation increases that the island will default July 1 for the first time on its general-obligation debt. ...
Scientists Disagree About 2016 Atlantic Hurricane Predictions
This summer and fall, the Atlantic Ocean might become a testing ground for competing scientific theories. After decades of warmth, there's evidence that the ocean is cooling, a change that could mean ...
Two Big Data Companies Merge to Expand Crime-Avoidance Technology
Two companies in the big data realm are planning to merge in a move that will help expand the use of risk-reduction technology that helps users safely navigate high-crime areas. Helios and Matheson ...
Tropical Storm Colin Hits Florida, Threatens Flooding Across U.S. Southeast
Tropical Storm Colin was moving across northern Florida early Tuesday as it knocked out power to thousands, prompted Governor Rick Scott to declare a state of emergency and threatened flooding across ...
French Insurers Assess Damage from Record Floods
Insurance executives meet with government officials in Paris Monday to assess the cost of flooding in the Centre and Ile-de-France regions as the Seine river recedes from its highest levels in more ...
BP Will Settle $175M in Oil Spill-Related Shareholder Claims
BP Plc agreed on Thursday to pay $175 million to shareholders who brought a class-action lawsuit that accused the oil company of misleading them by understating the severity of the 2010 oil spill in ...
Hurricane Making Landfall Would be a First for Many Florida Insurers
Should a hurricane make landfall in Florida this storm season, many of the homeowner insurance players now doing business there are untested as to how they'll perform when catastrophe hits. Fitch ...