GMs fate in a personal injury trial that will help shape hundreds of cases to come lies in the hands of these jurors.

GM, which faces at least 16 trials on death and injury claims in state and federal courts in the U.S. in 2016, has said in regulatory filings that it couldnt estimate its potential liability.

The U.S. Justice Department sued Volkswagen and laid out claims that could push penalties into the billions of dollars an opening salvo in a legal battle that could be far more costly for the German carmaker than had been expected.

Driverless cars are touted as leading to an accident-free future. But before we get to that utopia, there'll be plenty of collisions between robot cars and vehicles driven by humans.

Federal prosecutors dropped manslaughter charges against BP Plcs two top employees on the doomed oil rig that blew up in 2010.

The bulk of the money from BPs record settlement will go to the five states along the Gulf of Mexico whose shores were blackened in the 2010 oil spill.

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.

The settlements were the latest in a series of resolutions since the 2010 sinking of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, spilling millions of gallons of oil.