Litigation/Liability Trends
J&J Settles One Risky Opioid Trial on the Cheap
Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay more than $20 million to avoid the first federal trial in which it faced accusations of helping fuel the opioid epidemic by mishandling its painkillers. Under the ...
Coming Soon: Brexit Moment of Truth for UK’s Johnson and His Strategy
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing the moment of truth for his Brexit strategy as he prepares to present his blueprint for a deal to the European Union in days. The reception his plan ...
Fairfax’s Watsa Gives ‘Mindboggling’ Takeover Testimony Leading to Shareholder Court Award
Canadian investor Prem Watsa was "purposely forgetful" and offered a "mindboggling" explanation in court testimony explaining why he backed a low-ball bid for a pulp mill in a sale to Resolute Forest ...
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 ...
JPMorgan Hacker Expected to Plead Guilty Over Role in Widespread Cyber Attack
A Russian hacker at the center of an alleged scheme to steal financial data on more than 80 million JP Morgan Chase & Co. clients will plead guilty later this month, according to a U.S. court ...
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 ...