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Cannabis Farm Defeats Insurer Dismissal Bid Over Ex-Worker Suit
4+ hour, 11+ min ago (116+ words) Bloomberg Law News Kinsale Insurance Co. lost a bid to dismiss a counterclaim made by a New Mexico-based cannabis farm over whether a wrongful termination suit brought by a partial owner was excluded from the carrier’s duty to defend under…...
Fourth Circuit Loss Leaves South Carolina Room to Fight OSHA
11+ hour, 15+ min ago (949+ words) A recent Fourth Circuit ruling against South Carolina over an OSHA rule on maximum state workplace safety fines leaves the door open for another later challenge to the federal regulation, legal observers say. South Carolina lost the bid to revive…...
Uber and Trial Lawyers Refuse to ‘Roll the Dice’ in California
2+ week, 1+ day ago (971+ words) Uber Technologies Inc.‘s last minute deal with the Consumer Attorneys of California is an unexpected compromise in a long-brewing fight between the ride-share company and the plaintiff’s bar bringing Uber-involved car accident and sexual assault cases. The agreement signed…...
Fired Trucker AI Monitoring Suit Adds Twist to Liability Debate
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (105+ words) Bloomberg Law News A California truck driver’s wrongful termination lawsuit naming a maker of AI-powered video surveillance portends a potential expansion of legal liability in companies’ use of automated employment decision tools. Rodrigo Garcia claims his dismissal from Figueroa Tank…...
Ford Wrongly Escaped $105 Million Verdict, Fed. Cir. Says (1)
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (93+ words) Ford Shouldn’t Have Escaped $105 Million Verdict, Fed. Cir. Says Bloomberg Law News Ford Motor Co. shouldn’t have avoided damages awarded in a $105 million jury verdict that it had stolen software that it had been licensing from Versata Software Inc., the…...
Ford Shouldn’t Have Escaped $105 Million Verdict, Fed. Cir. Says
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (103+ words) Bloomberg Law News Ford Motor Co. wrongly escaped damages when a judge nullified a $105 million jury verdict that it had stolen from Versata Software Inc.'s software that it had been licensing, the Federal Circuit said. A federal judge improperly…...
NY-NJ Bridge Injury Makes Court Evaluate Construction Liability
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (124+ words) Bloomberg Law News In a marathon argument Monday three camps—developers, insurers, and plaintiffs—all urged the New Jersey Supreme Court to overhaul a test for construction workplace injury liability. But everyone called for different rules to benefit their group....
LA Fire Victims Suing City Utility for Billions Win Major Ruling
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (153+ words) The water and power utility that serves the city of Los Angeles must face hundreds of lawsuits faulting its response to the massive 2025 wildfire that leveled one of the city’s premier seaside neighborhoods and caused tens of billions of dollars…...
US Asks Justices to Take SEC Enforcement Case Despite Appeal Win
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (444+ words) The Trump administration wants the US Supreme Court to weigh in on the SEC’s power to recoup illicit profits in cases where investor harm can’t be quantified, asking the high court to take up a petition to review a Ninth…...
Berkshire’s PacifiCorp Risks Junk Label as Wildfire Costs Mount
8+ mon, 2+ day ago (139+ words) A Berkshire Hathaway Energy Co.-owned utility is at risk of losing its investment-grade credit rating as it expects to have to pay up more money for litigation brought by victims of 2020 wildfires in Oregon. PacifiCorp recently warned that it…...