Lawyers Try Unusual Legal Path to Advance Sex Abuse Claims Against Boy Scouts January 8, 2020 By David Crary A team of lawyers filed a lawsuit this week in federal court in Washington, D.C., seeking to establish the nation’s...
British Regulator Warns Insurance Industry to Stamp Out Bad Behavior – or Else January 8, 2020 Britain’s markets watchdog has told the bosses of commercial insurance companies to stamp out bad behavior in the industry and...
Weinstein Criminal Trial on Rape Charge to Open 2 Years After #MeToo Movement Started January 5, 2020 By Patricia Hurtado and Rebecca Greenfield More than two years and a lifetime ago, Hollywood’s open secrets about Harvey Weinstein finally spilled into public view. Few...
United Airlines Settles Sexual Harassment Claim Over Explicit Internet Posts by Captain December 27, 2019 By Andrew G. Simpson United Airlines has agreed to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit over a captain who continued to post explicit images of...
Bank of England Enhances Scrutiny of Lloyd’s Whistleblower Systems December 23, 2019 The Bank of England has stepped up its monitoring of Lloyd’s of London’s whistleblowing systems, the central bank said on...
Weinstein Deal Seen as ‘Wake-Up Call’ for Companies But Punishing to Some Victims December 17, 2019 By Larry Neumeister A tentative $25 million settlement revealed last Wednesday to end nearly every sexual misconduct lawsuit brought against Harvey Weinstein and...
Report: Weinstein, Insurers, Accusers Have Reached Tentative $47 Million Settlement December 12, 2019 By Patricia Hurtado and Christopher Palmeri Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced film mogul charged with rape, reached a tentative $47 million settlement with accusers, potentially putting an...
Uber Received 3,000 Reports of Sexual Assault in U.S. in 2018 December 6, 2019 By Tina Bellon Ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies Inc. said it received over 3,000 reports of sexual assault related to its 1.3 billion rides...
Insurers to Pay $21M of $41M Shareholder Settlement with Wynn Resorts December 1, 2019 By Edvard Pettersson Casino mogul Steve Wynn agreed to pay $20 million toward a settlement of shareholder lawsuits that claimed Wynn Resorts Ltd.’s...
#MeToo Changed Norms, Not the Law: Viewpoint November 21, 2019 Last week, the Minnesota Supreme Court heard Kenneh v. Homeward Bound, a sexual harassment case that takes aim at the...