All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 8 2021 // Three priests have been placed on leave in response to claims in a lawsuit filed last month that they sexually abused a boy in the 1990s, the Diocese of Buffalo announced Saturday.Bishop Michael Fisher said the priests all...
Jun 7 2021 // Plaintiffs attorneys are looking deep into the weeds for evidence to support claims for business income lost because of COVID-19 public safety orders.Lawyers for footwear wholesaler Marc Fisher LLC and its affiliates are...
Jun 7 2021 // BERLIN – Volkswagen on Sunday said it had reached the broad outlines of a settlement with former boss Martin Winterkorn over his role in the dieselgate scandal, with the final details to be thrashed out over coming...
Jun 7 2021 // A beverage distributor that operates across Alabama and played a role in the state’s craft beer craze agreed to pay more than $800,000 to settle claims that it discriminated against Black employees for years by...
Jun 7 2021 // Even as law firms made adjustments to sustain their operations through the COVID-19 pandemic, they were unable to avoid the rising costs of malpractice claims. Indeed, the time period beginning in 2019 through mid-2020...
Jun 4 2021 // Bristol Myers Squibb Co. was sued for $6.4 billion on Thursday for allegedly delaying its Breyanzi cancer drug to avoid payments to shareholders of the former Celgene Corp., which the drugmaker bought in 2019.According to...
Jun 2 2021 // MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Supreme Court sided with Abbott Laboratories on Friday and threw out a lawsuit filed by Mobile County against the company over the opioid epidemic.In an 8-0 opinion in which one justice...
May 28 2021 // A judge on Wednesday dismissed a class action lawsuit involving 300 people who allege decades of abuse at New Hampshire’s youth detention center, but he left the door open for individual claims against the state.The...
May 28 2021 // Two tech trade groups filed a lawsuit against Florida on Thursday over a new law that would fine social media companies that ban political candidates, which they said violated free speech rights.The lawsuit, which said the...
May 26 2021 // The use of 3D technology has been a topic of discussion in insurance for years, but for an industry that is historically slow to adopt technological change, its impact has not yet been as widely felt as originally thought....
May 24 2021 // Complaints over insurance claims arising out of the three hurricanes that struck Louisiana last year have resulted in a recovery of $41 million for consumers as of the end of April, Louisiana insurance regulators say.The...
May 24 2021 // A Morrisville, Pennsylvania, woman was sentenced to four to 23 months in county jail for submitting a series of false auto insurance claims over the past few years that defrauded two auto insurance companies of almost...
May 20 2021 // The billionaire Italian family that until recently owned Brooks Brothers has been accused in a lawsuit of driving the iconic apparel retailer into bankruptcy instead of selling it, to avoid paying millions of dollars to an...
May 18 2021 // A California regulator said on Monday it is reviewing whether Tesla Inc. violated regulations by falsely promoting its advanced driver-assistance systems as being “full self-driving.”Tesla’s driver...
May 17 2021 // A woman forced to the ground by two sheriff’s deputies in an arrest recorded by her son. Demonstrators tear-gassed and hit by rubber projectiles while protesting the death of George Floyd. A man stunned with a Taser...
May 17 2021 // Even as law firms made adjustments to sustain their operations through the COVID-19 pandemic, they were unable to avoid the rising costs of malpractice claims. Indeed, the time period beginning in 2019 through mid-2020...
May 14 2021 // National Flood Services announced the appointment of Lindsey Erickson as its chief executive officer.Erickson replaces interim CEO George Ruhana, who will continue in his role as operating partner. Erickson has been with...
May 11 2021 // The Texas House of Representatives recently advance two pieces of legislation that address claims arising out of vehicle accidents.The Texas House May 7 passed House Bill 359, which addresses delaying tactics practiced by...
May 11 2021 // Apple Inc is facing a London lawsuit over claims it overcharged nearly 20 million UK customers for App Store purchases, yet another legal headache for the tech giant fighting lawsuits across the world.Apple’s 30%...
May 6 2021 // Two Miami residents have been arrested for allegedly acting as public adjusters without a license and filling false insurance claims with Citizens Property Insurance Corp., according to a statement from the Florida...