Ninety-seven percent of Americans now own a cellphone, and 85% of those own a smartphone, a mobile device that does a lot more than just make and receive calls. In fact, a smartphone can track every aspect of a person's life, including sleep; eating and health trends; location and movement; and social and financial alerts.

A pipeline operator has agreed to pay $50 million to thousands of Southern California fishermen, tourism companies and property owners who sued after an offshore oil spill last year near Huntington Beach.

This August, as Death Valley experienced a 1,000-year rain event, all Steve Tagert could see were the pollution risks. In a matter of hours, nearly a year's worth of rain poured from the sky.

Two recently filed lawsuits, Aloha Petroleum Ltd. v. National Union Fire Insurance Co. and Everest Premier Insurance Co. v. Gulf Oil Ltd. Partnership, signal the beginning of litigation over liability insurance coverage for climate change-related lawsuits and damages.

Underlying Claims

Climate Change Contribution

Since 2017, state and local governments around the U.S. have been filing lawsuits against oil and gas companies for their contribution to climate change.[2]

The government entities allege that production and use of defendants' fossil fuel products has created greenhouse gas pollution, which is causing global warming, sea level rise, and increased frequency and severity of extreme weather events, resulting in climate change-related injuries to the plaintiffs.

Wisconsin-based Acuity Insurance has reported an increased need for cyber liability insurance among both personal and business policyholders as cybercrime continues to grow. Between June 2021 and June 2022, Acuity Insurance saw cyber liability claims on its commercial insurance policies spike by more than 50%. For personal policies, Acuity reported a 90% increase in cyber claims in 2021 over 2020.

Litigation could cost the plastics industry and its insurers $20 billion in the US over the next eight years, according to a report backed by the United Nations and an Australian billionaire.

In August, flooding immersed Pakistan as three months of monsoons, following a drought, took their toll on farmland and humanity. The previous month, Vancouver, Canada launched a lawsuit against oil producers, placing the blame for climate change on them.

Property and casualty insurance providers across the country wrote more than $797 billion in premiums in 2021, generating about $767 billion in earned premiums, the latest industry report from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' (NAIC) has revealed.

Built into the Insurance Services Office, Inc. (ISO), commercial general liability (CGL) policy coverage part for over 35 years is an "Aircraft, Auto or Watercraft" exclusion -- currently labeled as exclusion g. in the Commercial General Liability Coverage Form (CG 00 01 04 13).

Former executives and directors of Pacific Gas & Electric have agreed to pay $117 million to settle a lawsuit over devastating 2017 and 2018 California wildfires sparked by the utility's equipment, it was announced Thursday.

A former New York Giant who sued a prominent Manhattan surgeon for allegedly ending his football career won a whopping $28.5 million verdict in the case. Running back Michael Cox, 33, had a four-year, $2.3 million contract with Big Blue when he was tackled during a November 2014 game in Seattle.

Seventy-nine funerals in five weeks. Not at a cemetery but inside Judge Michael Hanzman's courtroom, during unprecedented hearings held throughout an excruciating summer of sadness as he appraised the worth of the victims killed in the Surfside condominium collapse.

The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, applying Oklahoma law, granted an insured's motion for summary judgment, finding that a claim was sufficiently made and reported during the policy period.

The 2nd Appellate District in Montes v. Young Men's Christian Assn. of Glendale, California (2022 Cal.App.LEXIS 677) recently reaffirmed the application of the 'open and obvious' defense to premises liability claims, especially as they related to trial following an unsuccessful motion for summary judgment raising the defense.

Nearly a year after the remnants of Hurricane Ida flooded the Forest Hills one-bedroom apartment where Heidi Pashko and her husband live, the couple is finally beginning to settle back into their first-floor home of over four decades.