Credit Acceptance Corp. agreed to a $710 million settlement with 40 U.S. states and Washington, D.C. to resolve charges it drove thousands of borrowers with low incomes and low credit scores into predatory auto loans it knew they could not …
Hawai’i Employers’ Mutual Insurance Company Inc. is returning $5 million to qualifying policyholders this year, a move that the workers’ compensation insurer said marks the 20th consecutive annual dividend declared by its board. This payout also matches the largest dividend …
Burns & Wilcox promoted Tom Carvalho to regional vice president. The promotion is effective Oct. 1. Carvalho will oversee Burns & Wilcox operations in Portland, Oregon; Seattle, Washington; and San Francisco, Sacramento and Fresno, California. He will report to Rich …
New York Attorney General Letitia James encouraged workers at artificial intelligence companies to confidentially report activity they think is dangerous or illegal to her office. In a Thursday press release, James pointed to an online portal she said whistleblowers could …
Multilevel marketing company Amway Corp. and two of its affiliates will pay the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and Washington state $225 million to resolve allegations it recruited new members by deceptive claims about how much money they could make, the …
Workers’ compensation provider Summit has expanded its coverage into Maryland and Washington, D.C. Summit-managed carriers — Bridgefield Casualty Insurance Co., Bridgefield Employers Insurance Co. and Bridgefield Indemnity Insurance Co. — received regulatory approval to begin offering workers’ compensation coverage in …
A sexual assault trial started Monday for a New Hampshire man whose arrest more than seven years ago kicked off one of the biggest youth detention scandals in U.S. history. Former youth counselor Jeffrey Buskey, 60, of Litchfield, faces allegations …
A federal district court in New York has approved a $10.5 million class action settlement by digital insurer Lemonade over its exposing license numbers of as many as 190,644 drivers to third parties through its online auto insurance quote platform. …
A senior Glencore Plc executive last year urged counterparts at Radiant World not to communicate by email, according to WhatsApp messages from the company’s head of iron ore seen by Bloomberg News. “Say nothing on email,” Peter Hill wrote in …
The Atlantic has been pretty quiet so far this season, but one system east of Bermuda could soon develop into a tropical storm, the National Hurricane Center said Thursday. If the storm were to develop into a Category 5 hurricane …