UK Accounting Watchdog Asks Big Four to Ring-Fence Audit Practices July 6, 2020 By Aoife White The UK dominant accounting firms must separate their audit units from other businesses by June 2024 as the country’s accounting...
American Companies Facing Pressure to Reveal Data on Diversity of Employees July 6, 2020 By Ross Kerber and Simon Jessop American companies are coming under increasing pressure from investors to publicly disclose information about diversity among employees in the wake...
Utility to Pay $56 Million to Resolve Deadly Massachusetts Gas Blasts Probe July 6, 2020 By Nate Raymond NiSource Inc. will pay $56 million to resolve a probe into Massachusetts gas explosions in 2018 linked to a utility...
Climate Change Litigants Argue Human Rights, Consumer Harm in Suing Oil Firms July 6, 2020 By Matthew Green, Valerie Volcovici and Emma Farge LONDON/WASHINGTON/GENEVA — Climate change may be having its day in court. With the slow pace of international climate negotiations, lawyers...
California Workers’ Comp Direct Written Premium Continued to Fall Last Year, Report Shows July 6, 2020 California workers’ compensation total direct written premium continued to decline in 2019, falling 7.0% to a five-year low of $11.42...
Southern California Edison Sued Over Oktoberfest Explosions July 6, 2020 A Southern California restaurant owner who was among five injured when an underground transformer exploded during an Oktoberfest celebration last...
California Insurance Department Says Premium Relief Has Saved Drivers $1.2B July 6, 2020 California automobile insurance companies have agreed to provide $1.21 billion in savings to drivers, the state insurance department says. Insurance...
Washington Insurance Commissioner Wants to Ban Credit Scoring July 6, 2020 Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler is calling on the insurance industry to end its use of credit scoring in auto,...
Man Hospitalized After Fatal Las Vegas Fire Suing Building Owner July 6, 2020 A 48-year-old man hospitalized since December after being injured in a downtown Las Vegas apartment fire that killed six people...
Florida’s Citizens Accuses Embattled Law Firm, Others of Sham Lawsuits, Racketeering July 6, 2020 By Amy O'Connor Florida’s state-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has joined a chorus of insurance companies accusing the Strems Law Firm of lawsuit...