Litigation

BP will pay a record $18.7 billion to resolve claims by the U.S. and five states along the Gulf of Mexico related to the 2010 oil spill.

A look at some of the legal decisions impacting insurance across the country

Legal decisions set many precedents for the insurance industry, but frequently those decisions lag behind what's occurring in the real world. A prime example involves the legalized use of marijuana. Approved for medical use in 23 states and recreational use in a handful, the federal government has yet to legalize...

While attorneys offer advice to clients and execute legal documents for them, are they liable when the client makes a decision that doesn't provide the resolution originally anticipated? In this professional liability claim an attorney counsels an employee to proceed with caution, but the employee has other ideas.

When a University of Florida Ph.D. candidate used the phrase climate change in her epidemiology dissertation, which examined how climate change in Florida had affected ciguatera a deadly fish-borne disease that affects the nervous system she and her co-author were informed by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection...

For a large insurance carrier, the perception of having deep pockets is a common concern, and based on some trials, it seems there are law schools aggressively teaching a form of profundus marsupium.

Many of us have laughed at movie scenes from cult classics like Half Baked, Pineapple Express, Dazed and Confused, or Cheech & Chong's Up in Smoke in which the hapless stoner employee is depicted as someone who cannot perform even the simplest task correctly or fails to show up for...

Oklahomas Supreme Court said New Dominion LLC can be sued for damage caused by an earthquake that a woman blames on disposal wells tied to fracking, in what may be the first such case to head to a jury trial.