20 01, 2026

People Moves: Cowbell Appoints Hughes as Chief Commercial Officer

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Cowbell named Simon Hughes chief commercial officer. Hughes, who previously served as senior vice president, global distribution and general manager, U.K., will oversee Cowbell’s global commercial strategy, including distribution, partnerships, international expansion and market development. He initially joined Cowbell to …

16 01, 2026

Allstate Can Proceed with Recovery in Texas RICO Case: Fifth Circuit

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Allstate can move forward in its recovery of $4.7 million it paid to settle fraudulent medical claims with a Houston, Texas medical facility, the Fifth Circuit has ruled. The federal appellate court reversed a lower court’s ruling that Allstate’s RICO …

20 01, 2026

Bayer Gets Supreme Court Hearing in Challenge to Roundup Suits

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The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Bayer AG’s appeal taking aim at thousands of lawsuits targeting its top-selling Roundup weedkiller for causing cancer. The high court agreed Friday to hear Bayer’s challenge to a $1.25 million Missouri jury verdict …

16 01, 2026

Trump Officials Vow to Keep All US Coal Plants Running

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Trump administration officials vowed to keep US coal power plants operating, casting it as an imperative to meet surging electricity demand and drive a revival of the nation’s industrial base. “The goal is 100% open,” said Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. …

16 01, 2026

Driver Fails to Back Up Claim That Tesla Touchscreen Defect Caused Accident

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Vehicle manufacturer Tesla has won dismissal of a product liability lawsuit claiming that a defective touchscreen in a 2021 Tesla caused an accident. Judge Nelson Roman in federal district court in New York granted Tesla summary judgment because the woman …

20 01, 2026

Boeing 2011 Warning May Offer Clues into 2025 UPS Jet Crash

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Boeing Co. warned operators in 2011 that a key structural component found cracked in the plane involved in November’s fatal crash of a United Parcel Service Inc. freighter had failed on prior occasions. The planemaker issued a service letter in …

19 01, 2026

Trump’s Greenland Threat Puts Europe Inc Back in Tariff Crosshairs

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Just as European companies were getting used to last year’s hard-won U.S. trade tariff deals, President Donald Trump has put them back in his crosshairs with an explosive threat to place levies on nations that oppose his planned takeover of …

16 01, 2026

Wisconsin Medical Care Partnership to Pay $162K in Back Wages

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A federal court has ordered a Wisconsin-based multicounty medical care partnership to pay $162,486 in back wages and liquidated damages to 68 case managers after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation found the employer did not pay case managers all …

16 01, 2026

California Attorney General Issues Cease and Desist Letter to xAI

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California Attorney General Rob Bonta sent xAI a cease-and-desist letter that orders the company to immediately halt the creation and distribution of deepfake, nonconsensual, intimate images and child sexual abuse material. Creating, distributing, publishing or exhibiting child sexual abuse material …

16 01, 2026

People Moves: Fallon to Lead CRC Specialty Expansion Into Virginia

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Tracey Fallon has been named office president for wholesale insurance broker CRC Group’s first Virginia office. Fallon will lead CRC Specialty’s recently opened Richmond office, strengthening CRC’s presence in the Mid-Atlantic region. Fallon has over a decade of experience in …