17 08, 2026

Belgian Firefighters Battle Record Blaze Near German Border

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Emergency services were attempting to control a large wildfire in the east of Belgium on Sunday, after the blaze destroyed about 2,700 hectares (6,700 acres) of a nature reserve and forced about 600 residents to evacuate in an area near …

17 08, 2026

Australia’s ‘World-Leading’ Minimum Pay And Insurance Rules for Gig Delivery Workers

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Australia’s industrial umpire has approved new minimum standards requiring food and grocery delivery workers to be paid hourly rates above the national minimum wage and covered by injury insurance while on the job. Gig workers will be paid at least …

17 08, 2026

When ‘We Accept’ Becomes A Contract: A Claims Lesson From Farmers V. Wood

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Claims files often describe settlement as a sequence: obtain authority, communicate acceptance, issue the check, secure the release and close the claim. Operationally, that sequence makes sense. Legally, however, the decisive event may occur much earlier — when the insurer …

17 08, 2026

SEC to Keep Hands Off Shareholder Proposals, Worrying Activists

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The top U.S. financial regulator on Friday made permanent its decision to cease judging whether companies may exclude shareholder resolutions from votes at annual meetings, leaving investor activists concerned about diminishing influence. In practice, the change announced by the U.S. …

17 08, 2026

Liechtenstein Rules Out Paying Hackers Ransom After Data Breach

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Two weeks after an unprecedented hacking attack shook the tiny Alpine principality of Liechtenstein and its outsize financial center, officials say they still don’t know who the perpetrators were or what they want. Yet one thing is clear according to …

17 08, 2026

UK Steps Up Scrutiny of Defense Supply Chain After China Scare

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The UK Ministry of Defense is stepping-up scrutiny of its supply chain after discovering some of its naval drones transmitted signals to China. The department revealed earlier this week that a routine cyber vulnerability assessment identified an issue affecting K3 …

18 08, 2026

Paramount Seeks $1.9 Billion Bond From States in Merger Lawsuit

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Paramount Skydance Corp. requested a $1.88 billion bond from the 12 states that have filed an antitrust lawsuit over the media giant’s pending merger with Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. The company said Monday that federal law requires plaintiffs to “post …

17 08, 2026

FTC Probes Health Records Giant Epic Systems, Sources Say

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Epic Systems, a healthcare database company that holds the medical records of hundreds of millions of Americans, is facing an antitrust investigation by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. Epic runs the patient …

17 08, 2026

Amazon’s New User Agreement Seeks to Curb Class-Action Suits

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Amazon.com Inc. reintroduced a clause in its user agreement that seeks to prevent shoppers from filing class-action lawsuits against the online retailer, inserting a legal buffer between itself and plaintiffs attorneys that it removed five years ago. In an email …

17 08, 2026

Report Says Firefighting Tactics at Maine Lumber Mill Inadvertently Aided Deadly Blast

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Firefighters who responded to a fire at a Maine lumber mill used tactics that inadvertently contributed to a massive explosion that killed three people, according to a report from federal investigators. The fire companies tried to extinguish the May 15 …