Litigation

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.

Unofficially, Florida would prefer you not use the phrase "climate change."

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.

Legal decisions set many precedents for the insurance industry, but frequently those decisions lag behind what's occurring in the real world. A prime example involves the legalized use of marijuana. Approved for medical use in 23 states and recreational use in a handful, the federal government has yet to legalize...

For a large insurance carrier, the perception of having deep pockets is a common concern, and based on some trials, it seems there are law schools aggressively teaching a form of profundus marsupium.

Many of us have laughed at movie scenes from cult classics like Half Baked, Pineapple Express, Dazed and Confused, or Cheech & Chong's Up in Smoke in which the hapless stoner employee is depicted as someone who cannot perform even the simplest task correctly or fails to show up for...