October 31, 2024
Landmark Admin filed a notice of data breach last week after detecting suspicious activities on its system in May. Landmark is a Texas-based company that provides third-party administrative solutions for life insurance carriers. Approximately 800,000 users’ data were exposed in …
October 31, 2024
A Dallas pharmacy owner who routinely billed insurance companies for headache sprays, pain creams, and scar creams never dispersed to patients was sentenced last week to 10 years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas …
October 31, 2024
RESERVE, La. (AP) — A chemical manufacturing plant west of New Orleans has agreed to pay a $480,000 federal fine and install equipment to stop the release of a cancer-causing chemical from a storage tank and pipe. The consent agreement …
October 31, 2024
A former principal at a Christian boarding school in Missouri that closed in March amid abuse allegations has been charged with sex crimes involving a former student. Craig Wesley Smith Jr. was charged by the prosecutor in Wayne County in …
October 31, 2024
The Clear Group, the London-based independent insurance broker, announced the acquisition of A-One Insurance Group (A-One), a major commercial insurance broker in the south of England. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Clear said this latest deal is …
October 31, 2024
A lawyer for a Missouri mother on Wednesday asked a jury to make Abbott ABT.N and Reckitt’s RKT.L Mead Johnson pay a total of more than $6 billion in the latest trial over claims that the companies’ formulas for premature …
October 31, 2024
A recent Supreme Court decision doesn’t mean New York can’t enforce laws banning firearms from “sensitive” places such as public transportation, hospitals and schools, a federal appeals court said last week, repeating findings it made a year ago. The 2nd …
October 31, 2024
Insurtech Lemonade reported a third quarter 20243 net loss of nearly $68 million and a year-to-date loss of $172.2 million. Results were in comparison to a net loss of $61.5 during the same quarter and a loss of $194.5 as …
October 31, 2024
An administrative law judge has ordered a Rochester, New York commercial roofing company to pay $16,782 in penalties for safety violations, after an investigation and litigation by the federal government. The company, Elmer W. Davis Inc., had contested citations for …
October 31, 2024
Just two days before Halloween, The Hershey Co. was hit with a class action lawsuit alleging that the packaging of some of its candies contains unsafe levels of chemicals known as fluorine and/or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The suit …