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Tax Increase on Litigation Funders Does Not Make Final Budget Bill
Jul 21 2025 // When Trump’s huge tax bill was signed into law July 4, missing were changes to the taxes third-party litigation funders pay. Once included within the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) was language to tax earnings by...
Los Angeles Sues Airbnb for Alleged Price Gouging Following Wildfires
Jul 18 2025 // Los Angeles sued Airbnb, accusing the home rental company of allowing price gouging affecting at least 2,000 properties during January’s wildfires in Southern California, City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto said on...
Tesla Settled Suit Over Autopilot Crash With Truck Crossing Highway
Jul 18 2025 // Tesla Inc. settled a high-profile lawsuit over a driver’s death in 2019 when the Autopilot system in his Model 3 allegedly failed to avoid a collision with a tractor-trailer crossing a Florida highway. The...
Excessive Litigation Causes Surge in Liability Insurance Costs: Marsh McLennan CEO
Jul 18 2025 // Excessive litigation and abuse of the U.S. legal system are effectively imposing a tax on the U.S. economy and causing a surge in liability insurance costs, according to John Doyle, president and chief executive officer of...
Everclear High-Proof Alcohol Poses Extreme Risk, Alleges Burn Victim’s Lawsuit
Jul 18 2025 // In May 2025, Massachusetts college student Yvette Yuri Lanuza Digan was at a fraternity gathering when another person poured Everclear grain alcohol onto an open fire in the backyard of the house. An enormous fireball...
Trump Administration Sued by States for Cutting Disaster Prevention Grants
Jul 17 2025 // A group of 20 mostly Democrat-led U.S. states filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking to block the Trump administration from terminating a multibillion-dollar grant program that funds infrastructure upgrades to protect...
Meta Investors, Zuckerberg Reach Settlement to End $8B Privacy Litigation Trial
Jul 17 2025 // Mark Zuckerberg and current and former directors and officers of Meta Platforms agreed on Thursday to settle claims seeking $8 billion for the damage they allegedly caused the company by allowing repeated violations of...
Diageo Calls Tequila Purity Allegation ‘Baseless’ as Lawsuit Proceeds
Jul 15 2025 // Diageo on Monday filed an initial response to a lawsuit accusing the spirits giant of misleading U.S. consumers about the purity of some of its popular tequila brands, calling the claim “baseless.” The company,...
Michigan Construction Company Sued for Allegedly Scamming Customers
Jul 15 2025 // Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced a lawsuit against Hummingbird Construction Co., LLC and its owner, Matthew Ashline, for allegedly scamming multiple customers by accepting deposits for construction projects...
Lawsuit Challenges Florida’s Citizens Claims Arbitration by Administrative Judges
Jul 15 2025 // A Miami homeowner is suing Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp. for forcing him into arbitration over a 2024 damage claim dispute, claiming the process violates due process and equal protection...
DuPont Agrees to $27M Settlement in Polluted Water Lawsuit in Upstate New York
Jul 14 2025 // HOOSICK FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — Chemical maker DuPont has agreed to a $27 million settlement to resolve a nearly decade-long lawsuit over the contamination of an upstate New York village’s water supply. The deal was...
People Moves: Consilium Taps Carpenter’s Coleman for C-Suite After Co-CEO Baird Suddenly Exits; Everest Promotes Shaw as Chief Commercial Officer of Int’l Division
Jul 11 2025 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at the broker Consilium and Everest’s International Insurance Operation. A summary of these new hires (and one exit) follows here. Consilium Taps...
Nebraska Sues GM Over Alleged Unauthorized Collection of Driving Data
Jul 10 2025 // Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers filed a lawsuit this week alleging General Motors and its telematics service provider OnStar collected driving data without consumers’ knowledge or consent to create driving...
Credit Fund’s Collapse Leads to $1 Billion Lawsuit Against EY
Jul 9 2025 // Bridging Finance Inc.’s receiver is suing Ernst & Young LLP for C$1.4 billion ($1 billion), alleging the auditor failed to detect fraud and misstatements that contributed to the Toronto private lender’s...
Barnard College Settles Lawsuit Brought by Jewish Students
Jul 9 2025 // Barnard College has settled a lawsuit that accused the college of not doing enough to combat antisemitism on campus, agreeing to a litany of demands that include banning masks at protests and refusing to meet or negotiate...
Car Manufacturer Sued for Refusing to Allow Jewish Employee to Observe the Sabbath
Jul 8 2025 // FCA US, LLC, an international automobile manufacturer of Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram and Fiat car brands, violated federal law by refusing to accommodate an employee’s request to observe the Sabbath and take unpaid...
SEC, SolarWinds Reach Settlement to End Lawsuit Related to 2020 Breach
Jul 8 2025 // The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and software company SolarWinds Corp. have reached a settlement, ending a federal lawsuit that alleged investor fraud and known cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Early this month...
Appeals Court Nixes Class Actions Against Progressive Over Actual Cash Value
Jul 8 2025 // Progressive Insurance will not have to face two class actions by Pennsylvania insureds alleging that the insurer systematically underestimated the actual cash value (ACV) of their totaled vehicles and thus breached its...
The Venetian in Las Vegas Settles Religious Discrimination and Retaliation Suit
Jul 8 2025 // The Venetian Resort on the Las Vegas Strip must pay $850,000 and implement policy changes to settle a religious discrimination and retaliation lawsuit. The suit, filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,...
Tax Increase on Litigation Funders Does Not Make Final Budget Bill
Jul 7 2025 // When Trump’s huge tax bill was signed into law July 4, missing were changes to the taxes third-party litigation funders pay. Once included within the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) was language to tax earnings by...
