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COVID-19 Litigation Report

Group Says U.S. Agencies Failed to Comply with FOIA Request for Details on COVID-19 Testing Rollout

A nonprofit group has sought injunctive relief in federal court, saying that two U.S. agencies have failed to comply with its FOIA request for more information regarding COVID-19 testing directives.

Benzene & Emerging Toxic Torts Litigation

U.S. Steel Attacks Admissibility of Plaintiff Experts in Benzene Case

U.S. Steel Corp. has filed a series of motions in a benzene exposure lawsuit attacking the admissibility of the plaintiffs’ experts, maintaining that they are, in part, not qualified to testify on specific causation and that the testimony does not satisfy the standards for admissibility under Daubert.

Reinsurance & Arbitration

Reinsurers Seek Reconsideration of Order Requiring Arbitration of Billings Dispute

Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s London have asked a Massachusetts federal judge to reconsider her ruling that an arbitration panel should decide whether a prior award issued in a dispute over reinsurance billings for sexual molestation claims filed against Boy Scouts of America applies to a second set of billings that did not follow the same allocation method as the first set of billings.

COVID-19 Litigation Report

Princess Cruise Lines Hit With 2 COVID-19 Lawsuits in Calif. Federal Court

Five individuals have sued Princess Cruise Lines Ltd. in California federal court, alleging the company knew that at least one of its passengers had disembarked the Grand Princess with symptoms of the COVID-19 virus, but still continued sailing the next voyage of the vessel with more than 3,500 people on “an infected ship.”