8 09, 2023

Allstate Wins Trade Secret Tiff With Former Agents

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Allstate Insurance has emerged victorious in litigation against two of its former exclusive agents who used and refused to return Allstate spreadsheets with policyholder information after the insurer terminated their agency contracts. Allstate pursued and won claims against the agents …

20 09, 2023

Credit Suisse Unit Ordered to Pay Georgian Tycoon Ivanishvili $743 Million

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A Credit Suisse unit has been ordered to pay billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili reduced damages of $742.7 million by a Singapore court as it confirmed that the bank’s trust had failed to safeguard its client’s assets. The amount was revised down …

8 09, 2023

Oregon Workers’ Comp Costs to Drop 11th-Straight Year

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Oregon employers will pay on average less for workers’ compensation coverage, according to an update from the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services. The decline marks 11 years of average decreases in the pure premium rate – the base …

20 09, 2023

US Home Insurance ‘Bubble’ Closer to Popping as Climate Risks Mount: Report

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Home insurance costs that have soared in much of the US may get even higher. Tens of millions of properties around the country are insured at prices that haven’t caught up with the danger of hurricanes, wildfires and floods, according …

8 09, 2023

Judge’s Ruling That Trump Defamed Writer Sets Up Second Trial on Damages

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Four months after a jury found that Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that still more of the ex-president’s comments about her were libelous. The decision means that an upcoming …

20 09, 2023

Eli Lilly Sues Businesses Selling Knockoff Versions of Mounjaro

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Eli Lilly & Co. is suing medical spas, wellness centers and compounding pharmacies in various US states that sell unapproved versions of its blockbuster diabetes drug Mounjaro, which is frequently used off-label for weight loss. In lawsuits Lilly said it …

8 09, 2023

Maui Wildfires Portend Unprecedented Shift in What It Means to Mitigate Risk

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The Maui wildfires portend a grand and incalculable reality for every single one of us living on this spinning blue globe we call Earth. Understanding the risks associated with where we live, work and play may be reaching a tipping …

20 09, 2023

US Federal Agencies Aim to Streamline ‘Hodgepodge’ of Cyber Reporting Rules

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The Department of Homeland Security wants Congress and other federal agencies to help it streamline 52 different cyber reporting requirements to protect critical infrastructure and ease regulatory burdens on hacking victims. On Tuesday, it released a 107-page report that it …

8 09, 2023

Takeaways from Our Conversation on Reps & Warranties in a Changing Cannabis Market

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Go back just a few years to 2019-2020, when cannabis stocks started to really hit the market in the United States and Canada. Everyone was jumping in. It was the green rush, but in retrospect, a few of those public …

20 09, 2023

Google Launches Last-Ditch Effort to Overturn $2.6B EU Antitrust Fine

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Alphabet’s Google on Tuesday made a last-ditch effort at Europe’s top court to overturn a 2.42 billion euro ($2.6 billion) EU antitrust fine imposed for market abuse related to its shopping service, saying that regulators failed to show that its …