Uber Technologies Inc. had disabled an emergency braking system in a self-driving vehicle that struck and killed a woman in Arizona in March even though the car had identified the need to apply the brakes, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary...
About $14 million in mitigation costs incurred by a pipe manufacturing company when it had to shift production to India after a fire were extra expenses, whose policy limits were already exhausted under its Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company coverage, says a federal...
A W.R. Berkley Corp. unit is not obligated to defend or indemnify a motel management company being charged with negligence for failing to prevent human sex trafficking on its property, says a U.S. District Court.
In 2014, a minor female, “E.B.,” charged she was recruite...
A Travelers Cos. Inc. unit is not obligated to provide coverage to a seafood company that was the victim of a spoofing email scheme under an exclusion in its computer fraud policy, says a federal appeals court in upholding a lower court ruling.
This recent High Court decision discusses the liability of insurers under policies that provide an option to purchase a new house rather than rebuilding the existing one.
While the particular wording of each policy will be important, the case d...
In 2002, the insurer insured his house with an insurance company.
In November 2009, he discovered that a water supply pipe in the wall cavity behind the shower had burst. He turned off the mains water valve and contacted the insurer, which advised him to call a plumbe...
