Texas landowners along the U.S.-Mexico border who have experienced damage caused by border property crime can now file for reimbursement of up to $75,000, attorney general Ken Paxton announced this week. Texas lawmakers last year approved a law to create …
China Construction Bank Corp., the nation’s third-largest commercial lender, was accused in a US lawsuit of enabling a massive fraud in the reinsurance industry that left companies with “monumental losses” and sinking stock prices. The bank allowed employees to conspire …
FloodFlash has added a dealer program in its efforts to support more U.S. businesses ahead of a hurricane season that is widely anticipated to be amongst the worst in recent memory. Stored on large, flat areas of often impermeable land, …
Liberty Mutual Holding Company on Thursday reported first quarter 2024 net income of $1.5 billion compared to loss of $74 million during the same period last year. The combined ratio for the first three months of 2024 improved to 95.8 …
Nuclear verdicts of at least $10 million reached a 15-year high in 2023, while 27 verdicts were “thermonuclear,” or more than $100 million, according to a new study by research firm Marathon Strategies. The report, “Corporate Verdicts Go Thermonuclear,” found …
After two years of challenges for personal auto insurers, rating agency AM Best delivered a positive assessment: U.S. personal auto insurers are the furthest ahead when it comes to innovation. Personal auto insurers’ innovative processes include automated claims management and …
The Biden administration is poised to open up a new front in its effort to safeguard U.S. AI from China and Russia with preliminary plans to place guardrails around the most advanced AI models, Reuters reported on Wednesday. Government and …
The Florida Supreme Court has opened the door a little wider to wrongful death claims from people who weren’t married to victims at the time of injury, upsetting what defense lawyers said was a decades-old common-law practice. In Ripple vs. …
A judge on Friday forced the Hawaii attorney general’s office to turn over to lawyers involved in the hundreds of lawsuits over last summer’s Maui wildfires all documents, interviews and data collected by the outside team hired to investigate the …
Cal/OSHA cited D’Arcy & Harty Construction Inc. $371,100 for failing to protect employees working in a trench excavation at a construction site in San Francisco. On Sept. 28, 2023, an employee was replacing sewer parts inside the eight-foot-deep trench at …
