An overall rise in recalls of motor vehicles tracks with an increase of product liability lawsuits over autos in recent years, as motor vehicle lawsuits made up half of all product liability lawsuits outside multidistrict litigation filed in 2025, according to a new report by Lex Machina.
An overall rise in recalls of motor vehicles tracks with an increase of product liability lawsuits over autos in recent years, as motor vehicle lawsuits made up half of all product liability lawsuits outside multidistrict litigation filed in 2025, according to a new report by Lex Machina.
Amazon has suspended operations with cargo carrier partner 21 Air LLC, a week after one of its planes overran a runway at Miami International Airport and plowed into vehicles, killing five people, as the company faces another negligence and wrongful death lawsuit over the wreck.
The Ninth Circuit on Monday found that a district court wrongly dismissed insurers' claims against the Korea-based parent companies of Kia and Hyundai alleging their vehicles were susceptible to theft, saying the lower court must conduct further analysis to determine if it can exercise personal jurisdiction over them.
SpaceXAI on Monday dropped its claims that Apple breached antitrust laws by signing a deal with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into the iPhone but kept its claims against OpenAI Foundation intact.
A Georgia federal judge threw out a suit Monday brought by a woman who alleged that negligent directives given by the Federal Aviation Administration led to her husband's death in a plane crash, finding her case too speculative.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reaffirm the Eighth Amendment's excessive fines clause and find that the state of Alaska's seizure of a $95,000 plane over a six-pack of beer is out of proportion to the alleged harm.
The Federal Communications Commission's staff has agreed to waive agency rules for a federal testing program it says will give a boost to the "dominance" of the U.S. drone industry.
Latvian carrier airBaltic filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York on Monday, citing liabilities of more than $1 billion, after years of financial strain from the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia's invasion of Ukraine and a sharp increase in jet fuel prices following the outbreak of the Iran-U.S. conflict in early 2026.
A Washington federal judge on Monday said policyholders failed to show they were entitled to enhanced damages after the court determined State Farm shorted them on payouts for totaled vehicles, finding class members had already been fully compensated by the $38 million in actual damages they were already awarded.
Tesla Inc. asked a Florida state court on Monday to transfer a lawsuit alleging the wrongful death of a passenger in a vehicle crash to Miami-Dade County, arguing that there's virtually no connection to the neighboring venue where the case was filed.
The U.S. International Trade Commission provided sufficient explanation for including a major U.S. producer and importer of Mexican freight rail couplers as part of the domestic industry during the course of its duty investigations, according to an opinion published Monday by the U.S. Court of International Trade.
The owner of a Massachusetts debt buyer and collection agency has agreed to walk away from approximately $52 million he sought to collect through aggressive and allegedly illegal tactics, including seizing vehicles as a way to coerce payments on unrelated loans, the state attorney general's office said Monday.
The federal government is telling the U.S. Supreme Court that Google didn't meet the appropriate standard to get the Federal Circuit to look at the company's challenge to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's policy of using the age of patents as a reason not to review them.
The Delaware Chancery Court this past week saw disputes over allegedly fabricated board approvals at a telecom infrastructure startup, insider trading and child safety at Roblox Corp. and ownership of artificial intelligence technology used in legal proceedings.
A Travelers unit doesn't owe underinsured motorist coverage to a Rhode Island state employee who was injured in a car crash during the scope of her employment, the First Circuit said, refusing to depart from the Rhode Island Supreme Court's recent response to a pair of certified questions.
After the U.S. Supreme Court's February decision in Learning Resources Inc. v. Trump, invalidating $165 billion of presidentially imposed tariffs, consumers have filed numerous class actions seeking tariff refunds from businesses — but companies have substantial and multifaceted defenses available against these claims, say attorneys at Patterson Belknap.
A recent landmark $17.1 billion settlement with Meta Platforms Inc. may have never happened if it weren't for a quick-thinking trial attorney and his close-knit team of lawyers representing 29 states, who worked together to swiftly shift strategies midtrial.
Ashurst Perkins Coie pocketed millions of dollars in legal fees by providing services to clients it knew were operating a Ponzi scheme that ultimately swindled investors out of nearly $230 million, plaintiffs claimed in a Washington state lawsuit accusing the firm of aiding and abetting fraud.
The White House nominated a former Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP attorney who previously led the U.S. Department of Labor's contractor compliance arm to serve as the general counsel of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
President Donald Trump's nominee to be U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington is under fire from one of the home state senators who vowed to use every avenue possible to block him.
The Florida federal judge who barred President Donald Trump and others from citing a settlement resolving what she characterized as a sham $10 billion case against his own Internal Revenue Service won't pause her sanctions order while the president appeals to the Eleventh Circuit.
Partisan splits were apparent Tuesday on the Fourth Circuit panel hearing the Trump administration's challenge to a federal district judge's dismissal of the indictments of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, with two of the three judges appearing to agree an improper appointment doomed the cases.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Tuesday that his office charged Kings County Superior Court Judge Kendra Weber with a misdemeanor count of vehicular manslaughter, alleging she struck and killed a bicyclist.
