The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) now says data taken earlier this month from its information technology systems has been published online by the hackers responsible. In a short note posted midday June 25, NAIC said it was “actively …
The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation has agreed with the World Bank’s guarantee arm MIGA to create a political risk insurance framework for a U.S.-Ukrainian reconstruction investment fund. The agreement, signed on Thursday on the sidelines of a Ukraine recovery …
When a fire broke out a few miles from his Altadena, California, home the evening of Jan. 7, 2025, Matt Blea and his family needed to make a crucial decision: Should they stay home, or evacuate? A friend who did …
Americans are leaving some of the nation’s most flood-prone communities at an accelerating pace, suggesting that climate concerns are beginning to influence migration decisions alongside more traditional factors such as housing costs and quality of life. High-flood-risk U.S. counties — …
A recent Supreme Court decision that is widely viewed as a significant development in transportation litigation is particularly worth examining in the context of negligent hiring claims against freight brokers. The court’s decision in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, LLC …
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is dropping the manual brake pedal mandate for fully automated vehicles. As part of its new NHTSA’s Automated Vehicle Framework, the administration began rulemaking for its fifth update to Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards. …
Red Lobster’s $20 all-you-can-eat shrimp deal wasn’t just a badly designed promotion that inadvertently helped tip the iconic American restaurant chain into bankruptcy. It was part of a scheme to “squeeze every drop of value” from Red Lobster for the …
Cal-Maine Foods Inc. and other egg suppliers are close to resolving an investigation by the U.S. Justice Department and a bipartisan group of states into alleged illegal price coordination, according to people familiar with the matter. The Justice Department and …
Billionaire Ira Rennert agreed to pay $150 million to resolve more than a thousand claims that a lead smelter owned by his companies poisoned residents of a Peruvian town, reaching a deal on the eve of a U.S. trial that …
The U.S. Supreme Court reined in thousands of lawsuits pursued in state courts accusing Bayer of failing to warn users that the active ingredient in its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, handing a major legal victory on Thursday to the German …