Gunmakers Say Federal Law Shields Them from Sandy Hook Negligence Claims June 21, 2016 By Erik Larson A 2005 federal law was designed specifically to prevent gunmakers from being sued for mass killings like the one at...
Orlando Victims Watching Sandy Hook Gun Manufacturer Liability Case Opening Today June 20, 2016 By Kartikay Mehrotra and Erik Larson A case in Connecticut state court could help victims from mass shootings — including the recent massacre in Orlando —...
Suit Against Airbnb Alleges Racial Discrimination in Housing Rentals May 20, 2016 By Andrew Harris and Erik Larson Airbnb Inc. was accused in a civil rights lawsuit of ignoring a Virginia man who said a host with the...
Sandy Hook Families’ Lawsuit Against Bushmaster Gets Trial Date April 20, 2016 By Erik Larson and Rebecca Spalding The maker of the assault rifle used in the 2012 massacre of more than two dozen students and teachers at...
GM Wins Second ‘Bellwether’ Ignition Switch Trial March 31, 2016 By Erik Larson and Patricia Hurtado General Motors Co. won its second straight trial against drivers who blamed car wrecks on faulty ignition switches, boosting the...
GM Tells Ignition Switch Jury: ‘Sometimes Accidents Just Happen’ March 15, 2016 By Erik Larson “Sometimes, accidents just happen,” a lawyer for General Motors Co. told a U.S. jury in defense of the carmaker at...
GM Avoids Showdown in First Ignition Trial But Faces Many More Ahead January 25, 2016 By Erik Larson and Margaret Cronin Fisk General Motors Co. just watched the first big court case over an admitted deadly defect in its cars melt down...
Plaintiff in First ‘Bellwether’ GM Ignition Switch Trial Drops Case January 22, 2016 By Erik Larson and Sophia Pearson The Oklahoma mail carrier at the center of the first trial over General Motors Co.’s deadly ignition-switch defect is dropping...
Judge Hits Plaintffs’ Lawyers in GM Ignition Switch Trial January 22, 2016 By Erik Larson General Motors Co. got a boost in the first trial over a deadly ignition-switch defect as a judge slammed plaintiffs’...
First GM Ignition Switch Trial Sidetracked by Check Fraud Allegation January 20, 2016 By Erik Larson An Oklahoma family’s eviction from their “dream house” following allegations of check fraud is threatening to derail the first trial...