Federal legislation forbidding mandatory arbitration in sexual harassment and assault cases will lead to higher legal costs and possibly higher employment practices liability rates, experts say.

Look closely ... A trend is emerging. While we were all distracted, navigating the ever-shifting terrain of pandemic life, courts and legislatures moved forward with attempts to hinder fraud-fighting.

Thomas Fuller once said, 'All doors open to courtesy.' It appears that this may now include the courthouse door.

A former employee of TriPacific Capital Advisors had decided to sue the company and the company president, Geoffrey Fearns, for a variety of employment-related causes, including his termination and compensation. He was seeking compensatory damages no less than $8.9 million.

A lawsuit filed in California on Friday against Tesla by a former manager alleges whistleblowing retaliation, wrongful termination, racial discrimination, and more following many attempts to notify managers and higher-ups of safety violations.

Two recent developments - one the result of litigation, the other imposed by statute - warrant insurers' attention, as they reflect shifts in legal thinking on potential firearms-related liability.

Three Dallas firefighters who suffered severe burns in a gas explosion at an apartment complex in September have filed a lawsuit seeking $100 million in damages.

The family of a Georgia couple who were on a trip celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary when they died in an Amtrak train derailment in Montana has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Amtrak and BSNF Railway, which owns the tracks.

The US is the centre of the world's third-party litigation finance (TPLF) industry, in which investors such as hedge funds and family offices finance legal action against companies.

Legislators, safety advocacy groups, and others are mulling over not only the safety of semi- or fully autonomous vehicles (AVs) but who is at fault and accountable when they're involved in crashes. So how does that affect insurance and repairers?

California's Department of Fair Employment and Housing is suing Elon Musk's company Tesla over racism and harassment toward Black employees at Tesla's plant in Fremont, Calif., according to a lawsuit filed by the state this week. The company has called the lawsuit "unfair."

A Tesla Model 3 crash that killed a woman was allegedly caused by failures of the Autopilot system to prevent the Model 3 from slamming into the rear of a firetruck.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently confirmed that liability insurers have a duty to defend their insureds in construction defect cases when the underlying complaint alleges damage to property beyond the product and work of the insured, even if the complaint merely implies that the insured seeks such damage, without explicitly alleging so.

The phenomenon known as 'social inflation' accounted for $20 billion in commercial auto liability claims between 2010 and 2019, a new study by Triple-I and the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) finds. Social inflation isn't a new term. Warren Buffett used it in the 1970s to describe 'a broadening definition by society and juries of what is covered by insurance policies.'

The United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, applying Ohio law, has held that a D&O insurer had a duty to defend a wrongful death lawsuit against its insured because of a 'discrepancy' between the policy's exclusion for employment-related wrongful acts and an exception to the policy's bodily injury exclusion.