All the headlines from our Retail Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 18 2012 // Women who refiled a gender discrimination lawsuit against Walmart Stores Inc. have failed to come to grips with the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that ended their nationwide class action against the company, Walmart...
Jan 10 2012 // The Supreme Court’s decision in Wal-Mart v. Dukes, heralded last term as a game-changer in employment class actions, has lived up to the hype.Since the Court issued the Dukes decision in June, it has been cited by...
Jan 5 2012 // The economy, the promised-land of a hard insurance market and the need to master technologies dominated discussion at the first annual Insurance Industry Roundtable in Irvine, Calif.The daylong event was attended by 23...
Dec 29 2011 // An article on the Lloyd’s of London web site notes that while millions of people have been out an about shopping this holiday season, “an increasing number are choosing to shop from the comfort of their homes...
Dec 1 2011 // The attorney for an Arizona man forcibly taken down by Buckeye police at a Wal-Mart says he plans to clear his client of the criminal allegations stemming from an alleged shoplifting incident, and he’s contemplating...
Nov 23 2011 // The rush is the risk on Black Friday and Cyber Monday in the eyes of a retail insurance and risk expert who previously worked in retail for 22 years.Kelly Brown of Zurich North America doesn’t go so far as to...
Nov 7 2011 // Women pursuing discrimination claims against Arkansas-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc. filed a reformulated lawsuit against the retailer, their first since a massive nationwide class action collapsed earlier this year. The...
Oct 28 2011 // Women pursuing discrimination claims against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. filed a reformulated lawsuit against the world’s largest retailer, their first since a massive nationwide class action collapsed earlier this year.The...
Oct 17 2011 // What is an entrepreneur?The exact characteristics that comprise an individual with the ability to bring new ideas to the marketplace and foster their success may be difficult to define. But it’s not much of a stretch...
Oct 3 2011 // At the same time they are trying to figure out what their customers, markets and the economy are going to do, today’s intermediaries are also having to navigate changing relationships among carriers, wholesalers and...
Aug 22 2011 // Women who were part of a massive class action lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will have until the end of October to file individual lawsuits against the company, a U.S. judge ruled.Women who say the company denied...
Jul 27 2011 // Hank Watkins, president of Lloyd’s America Inc., smiles like he has a big secret he wants to spill.The history of Lloyd’s of London is no secret: originated in Edward Lloyd’s coffee shop in London;...
Jul 22 2011 // A fake Apple store in China, made famous by a blog that said even the staff working there didn’t realize it was a bogus outlet, is probably the most audacious example to date of the risks Western companies face in...
Jul 22 2011 // Plaintiffs in a huge sex bias class-action case against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. that was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court will begin to unveil plans Friday for how they will try to resuscitate their lawsuits.Lawyers for...
Jul 18 2011 // The Georgia Supreme Court has found a convenience store can be held liable for a fatal highway accident that took place after a driver purchased a 12-pack of beer.Overturning a lower court, the state’s top court...
Jul 18 2011 // Hank Watkins, president of Lloyd’s America Inc., smiles like he has a big secret he wants to spill.The history of Lloyd’s of London is no secret: originated in Edward Lloyd’s coffee shop in London;...
Jul 13 2011 // The end of the road for a class-action discrimination lawsuit brought by female employees of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has not spelled doom for employment lawsuits facing other big U.S. companies.A landmark U.S. Supreme Court...
Jul 6 2011 // The Georgia Supreme Court has found a convenience store can be held liable for a fatal highway accident that took place after a driver purchased a 12-pack of beer.Overturning a lower court, the state’s top court...
Jun 27 2011 // Attorneys representing women who unsuccessfully sued Wal-Mart Stores Inc. for gender discrimination filed a motion Friday asking a U.S. District Court to freeze the statute of limitations for their complaints against the...
Jun 22 2011 // Joseph Sellers is in the hole by about $7 million and does not expect to dig his way out any time soon.As lead counsel to the plaintiffs in the Wal-Mart Stores Inc. employment discrimination lawsuit tossed out by the...