4 11, 2024

SEC Says JPMorgan Chase Settles Five Enforcement Cases, to Pay $151M

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JPMorgan Chase will pay $151 million to settle five U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement cases, including accusations that the largest U.S. bank made misleading disclosures to brokerage customers, the regulator said on Thursday. The settlements include $61 million of …

1 11, 2024

Abbott, Reckitt Score First Victory in Baby Formula Trial

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Abbott Laboratories and a unit of Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc were cleared by a jury over claims they hid risks their premature-infant formulas can cause a bowel disease that severely sickened a baby boy. It was the companies’ first trial …

1 11, 2024

Retrial Begins in Civil Suit Against Contractor Accused in Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal

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A military contractor accused of contributing to the abuse of detainees at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison two decades ago is again on trial in a federal courtroom after a long-awaited civil case earlier this year ended with a hung jury. …

1 11, 2024

Analysis Shows Wider Florida Flooding From Milton: 185,000 Buildings Hit

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Flooding from Hurricane Milton appears to have been more extensive than initially determined, affecting almost 185,000 buildings all across Florida, says a new analysis from ICEYE, a firm that uses satellite images to measure damage for the insurance industry. The …

1 11, 2024

Allstate Says It’s Ready to Grow Homeowners Line With All 3 Distribution Channels

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Allstate said it sees opportunity where others may not — in homeowners insurance. And the insurer plans to use all three distribution channels to do it. Due to rising trends in the frequency and severity of weather-related losses and in …

1 11, 2024

KBRA Says Florida Insurers Will Weather the Storms; Cat Fund Can Handle Payouts

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Florida’s Hurricane Catastrophe Fund, a state-created layer of reinsurance, expects to pay out about $4.6 billion to help cover insurers’ losses in Hurricanes Helene and Milton. But that won’t trigger a surcharge on premiums. And a number of Florida property …

1 11, 2024

Regional Banks With Florida Operations Brace for Loan Defaults After Hurricanes

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Several regional lenders allocated loan-loss provisions in the third quarter to cover potential defaults by borrowers grappling with recent hurricanes, primarily in Florida, highlighting the risks extreme weather and climate change pose to banks. Two devastating hurricanes struck the Sunshine …

1 11, 2024

Ed Sheeran Beats Copyright Appeal Over ‘Thinking Out Loud’ Song

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Ed Sheeran, his record label Warner Music WMG.O and music publisher Sony Music Publishing 6758.T persuaded a U.S. appeals court on Friday to uphold a decision that his 2014 hit “Thinking Out Loud” did not illegally copy Marvin Gaye’s 1973 …

1 11, 2024

Texas Assisted Living Facility Fined for Firing Nurse With Sleep Disorder

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VibraLife of Katy, LLC, a rehabilitation and assisted living facility in Katy, Texas, will pay $80,000 and furnish other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) disability discrimination and retaliation lawsuit, the federal agency announced today. According …

1 11, 2024

Texas Pecan Farmers Fight to Save Water Suply

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FORT STOCKTON — Zachary Swick plucked a pecan from one of the 78,000 trees at a sprawling West Texas farm — a rare sight in the desert known for oil rigs and pump jacks. He peeled away the pecan’s layers, …