Litigation/Liability Trends
Banks Still Lend After Floods; Insurers Are Backing Out
Only a year after losing their homes to floods in parts of Australia's north eastern coast of Queensland, people are moving into new houses built on or near the same plots. But while banks have been ...
British Insurers No Longer Sell Travel Insurance to New Customers
British insurers Admiral , Aviva and Direct Line are no longer offering travel insurance to new customers, they said on their websites on Friday. "The ongoing global situation with coronavirus means ...
Cyber Attack Risks Rise With Coronavirus Pandemic
As U.S. employers ask employees to work from home to avoid exposure to coronavirus, they may be exposing themselves to another kind of risk: cyber attacks. Aon on Friday issued an advisory cautioning ...
Coronavirus Crisis Hits Insurers With Double Whammy
Having initially brushed off the potential impact from coronavirus-linked claims, global insurers are waking up to the prospect of a double whammy — a sharp rise in payouts at a time of big ...
Insurers Could Be Unknowingly Subsidizing Marijuana Grow Houses
While California has a $1.4 billion legal marijuana market, a black market of perhaps equal size is thriving. Some enterprising growers are working on ways to get home insurers to cover their capital ...
Two Former Grand Princess Passengers Sue Owners, Alleging Profits Over Safety
A Florida couple who was aboard the coronavirus-hit Grand Princess ocean liner has sued the ship's owner for more than $1 million, claiming the company put profits over safety and did not have proper ...
Aon Alleges Fraud Over $300 Million Brazilian Acquisition Deal
British insurance broker Aon Plc has accused the founder of Brazilian health and benefits insurance broker Admix of defrauding it when it acquired the company four years ago in a 1.35 billion reais ...
Investor Sues Bayer, Alleging ‘Disastrous’ Monsanto Acquisition
A Bayer AG investor sued the board and other top company officials, claiming the "disastrous" 2018 acquisition of Monsanto Co. eroded the company's share value by saddling it with potentially ...