A police officer from Raleigh who spilled a Starbucks coffee on his lap couldn’t convince the jury of North Carolina that the coffee firm should be liable for the incident.
Lieutenant Matt Kohr, sought as much as $750,000 from Starbucks, but in the end, the jury made a 10-2 decision that prompted Starbucks to pay him nothing.
Kohr mentioned that lid of his coffee popped off and the cup collapsed on his lap. The incident triggered severe stress and activated his Crohn’s disease, which led to the surgical removal of his intestine.
In last week’s testimony, Kohr mentioned to the jurors of him driving home to take snapshots of the injury prior to visiting an urgent care medical facility. He said he left the coffee branch in his police vehicle, retrieved his pickup from the precinct, drove back home, and had his wife take photos of burns on his thigh.
A lawyer for Starbucks, clearly indicated that it wasn’t until a couple hours later that Kohr sought medical treatment.
Early this week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear out a case that may make it a little easier for plaintiffs to enforce class action suits against Internet firms who are in violation of privacy laws and consumer data.
The case involves a suit against people-search website Spokeo Inc., regarding data it posted of a male from Virginia. The plaintiff, Thomas Robins, blames Spokeo for getting wrong information regarding his age, employment status, education attainment, and wealth, allowing other people to see him as being rich and educated than he really was.
Robins claims that the misinformation is hurting his employment prospects, leading him to suffer emotional, economic, and reputation injuries. A trial court earlier struck the case down, a decision overturned by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the previous year, which handed the case the Supreme Court.
The suit is seeking a class action status and alleges violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act, a law regulating credits bureaus and setting standards on how consumer credit data is gathered, shared, and stored.
A jury is all set and ready to hear out Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV CEO Sergio Marchionne’s testimony in a suit over a 4-year old boy who died in a burning Jeep. This renewed an inquiry of fuel tanks in older sport-utility vehicles that regulators linked to over 50 deaths.
Lawyers representing the boy’s family are suing Chrysler for wrongful death and plan to play video recording deposition of Marchionne sometime this Wednesday or Thursday. The manufacturer of Jeep, Chrysler, is now named FCA US LLC.
The trial, which began early this week in Georgia, comes after a huge U.S. vehicle recalls last year, and public investigation on faulty ignition switches at General Motors Co., and breakage of Takata Corp. air bags.
Jeep’s case may settle before jurors could hear depositions of Marchionne and other employees from Fiat Chrysler, thought it won’t be likely. Jurors looked briefly into Marchionne’s testimony on vehicle safety standards during the attorney opening statement earlier.
So far, Fiat Chrysler has curbed the scrutiny recall acquired by Takata and GM.
Banks have observed a growing fraud occurrence in Apple’s mobile-payment system as criminals continue to exploit the verification process credit card additions, some tech observers say.
Banks have tightened the process of verification to fight off the fraud.
The fraud issue was brought up by Cherian Abraham, a payment systems expert who collaborates with retailers and financial institutions on mobile payment solutions.
Abraham indicated that it’s never an anomaly to observe fraud making up about 6% of Apple Pay transactions, compared to the 0.1% payment transactions via a plastic card swipe. He also said the rate of frauds vary from one issuing bank to another.
Apple Pay utilizes a secure element in its latest iPhone models to store encrypted payment information separately from the rest of the mobile device. A fingerprint reader ensures the owner of the phone has made the purchase and issues a one-time code entry so merchants won’t see credit card details from the buyer.
Creating a card provisioning process is time consuming and may turn away potential Apple Pay consumers.