UK Regulator Seeks Court Review in July to Resolve COVID-19 Insurance Dispute May 8, 2020 By Carolyn Cohn and Kirstin Ridley Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) aims to get business interruption insurance policies examined by a court as soon as July,...
Top Insurers Face Lawsuit from UK Hospitality Sector on Rejected Biz Interruption Claims April 30, 2020 By Kirstin Ridley and Carolyn Cohn Top insurers such as AXA, RSA, QBE and Zurich face a potential multi-million-pound lawsuit from British pubs, hotels, restaurants and...
Update: U.K.-Based Foreign Exchange Firm, Travelex, Crippled by Ransomware Attack January 8, 2020 By Noor Zainab Hussain and Kirstin Ridley Staff at foreign exchange firm Travelex are using pen and paper to serve thousands of customers after the company said...
Mining Giant BHP Faces $5B Damages Claim over 2015 Brazil Dam Disaster May 8, 2019 By Kirstin Ridley and Barbara Lewis Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP is facing a landmark, $5.0 billion damages claim in England for being “woefully negligent” in the...
Danske Bank Faces Shareholder Lawsuit over Money Laundering Scandal January 22, 2019 By Kirstin Ridley Litigation funder IMF Bentham has teamed up with legal experts Quinn Emanuel and Njord Law Firm and plans to file...
BHP Readies for Largest English Group Lawsuit over 2015 Brazil Mine Disaster November 26, 2018 By Kirstin Ridley and Barbara Lewis Mining giant BHP says it will fight an unprecedented English lawsuit filed by hundreds of thousands of Brazilians for multi-billion...
Danske Bank’s Money Laundering Could Implicate Other Banks: Whistleblower Lawyer November 15, 2018 By Kirstin Ridley and Simon Jessop Danske Bank’s 200 billion euro ($225 billion) money laundering scandal might be the “tip of the iceberg” and investigators should...
More than 50,000 British Drivers Initiate ‘Dieselgate’ Suit Against VW March 27, 2018 By Kirstin Ridley Lawyers for more than 50,000 British car owners kicked off a lawsuit against Volkswagen in London’s High Court on Tuesday...
220,000 Dutch, English Consumers Sue VW Over Diesel Fraud June 14, 2017 By Kirstin Ridley and Toby Sterling Around 220,000 car drivers in the Netherlands, England and Wales joined forces on Tuesday in what could become a pan-European...
Last Shareholder Group in Settlement Talks with RBS; Litigation Insurance an Issue March 20, 2017 By Andrew MacAskill, Kirstin Ridley and Lawrence White Lawyers representing tens of thousands of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) shareholders have held tentative talks to settle a 1.2...