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Colorado Department of Transportation Report Shows Decline in Dangerous Driving Habits

Highway safety officials in Colorado are seeing a slight decline in a number of dangerous driving practices, such as driving while intoxicated, failing to use seat belts and speeding. A poll by the Colorado Department of Transportation assessed the opinions …

Insurer, Contractors Allege Staged Injury Claims Scheme Under New York Scaffold Law

A construction industry captive insurer along with three construction contractors have filed a lawsuit alleging a massive New York fraud scheme involving staged workplace accidents and bogus workers’ compensation and personal injury lawsuits backed by complicit lawyers and medical providers. …

US High Court Declines Appeal, Upholds Coverage Ruling on Treated Wood

Insurance carriers may want to examine policy language – and what information they request from insureds – after the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a lower court’s ruling which could force Argo Group to cover claims that a wood-treating company …

Indian News Agency Sues OpenAI for Copyright Violation

Asian News International, one of India’s largest news agencies, sued OpenAI in a court in India alleging that the U.S. artificial intelligence company misused its copyrighted news content. ANI also alleged that OpenAI stored the data, which is in breach …

Evian Maker Danone Defeats Lawsuit Over ‘Carbon Neutral’ Claim

The maker of Evian spring water, Danone, won the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging its “carbon neutral” claim on bottles, as a U.S. judge reversed his earlier ruling letting the proposed class action proceed. Consumers accused Danone of defrauding them …

Musk Escalates Altman Legal Feud, Casting OpenAI as Monopolist

Elon Musk is ramping up his feud with Sam Altman, alleging in a court filing that OpenAI is trying to corner the market for generative artificial intelligence and sacrificing safety in a race to get ahead. In a revised version …

FanDuel Settles MLB Union Lawsuit Over Use of Player Likenesses

Major League Baseball’s players union settled a lawsuit that accused sports betting giant FanDuel of using the names and likenesses of hundreds of MLB players on its betting platform without permission. A FanDuel spokesperson said on Friday that the company …

Bristol Myers Faces Renewed, $6.7B Lawsuit Over Delayed Cancer Drug

Bristol Myers Squibb was hit on Thursday with a $6.7 billion lawsuit claiming it cheated former Celgene shareholders by delaying federal approval for three drugs, 1-1/2 months after a federal judge abruptly dismissed an earlier version of the case. The …

Allstate Insurers Sue Hyundai, Kia to Pay for Claims From Defective Cars

A group of subsidiaries of Allstate have filed a subrogation suit against Hyundai and Kia to get back costs paid to insureds for damages when their cars suddenly erupted in flames. According to the lawsuit, now in U.S. District Court …

New Hampshire High Court Invalidates Geico Underinsured Claim Provision

A claim provision requiring insureds to seek underinsured benefits from their auto insurer within three years of an accident is unenforceable in New Hampshire because it restricts the insureds’ right to obtain the same benefits they would have received if …