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U.S. Companies Warn China’s Data Rules Risk Creating ‘Digital Island’
Apr 25 2022 // China’s “uniquely restrictive” data laws risk boosting U.S. firms’ cost of doing business in the No. 2 economy and could lead to digital decoupling, a new report from an American business group...
McDonald’s Beats Back Challenge to Settlement With U.S. Labor Agency
Apr 25 2022 // McDonald’s Corp. on Friday defeated a union-backed organizing group’s challenge to a settlement with a U.S. labor agency over claims that the company helped franchisees across the country suppress...
U.S. Trucking Downturn Foreshadows Possible Economic Gloom
Apr 25 2022 // Craig Fuller monitors millions of transactions between U.S. truckers and their customers as chief executive of transportation data company FreightWaves – and he does not like what he is seeing. There has been an...
Ending Collateral Requirements for Non-U.S. Reinsurers – It’s Been a Long Time Coming
Apr 22 2022 // Financially strong EU and UK reinsurers will finally see the end of collateral requirements for business they write in the United States — changes that have been more than 20 years in the making. Effective Oct. 1,...
U.S. Companies Warn China’s Data Rules Risk Creating ‘Digital Island’
Apr 21 2022 // China’s “uniquely restrictive” data laws risk boosting U.S. firms’ cost of doing business in the No. 2 economy and could lead to digital decoupling, a new report from an American business group...
U.S. Justice Department Appeals Transportation Mask Ruling
Apr 21 2022 // The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday appealed a judge’s ruling ending a mask mandate on public transportation and airplanes after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the measure was still...
Reducing Inequality, Hiking Minimum Wage Could Boost U.S. Economy: White House
Apr 20 2022 // Boosting enforcement of antidiscrimination and antitrust laws, raising the federal minimum wage and higher unionization rates could substantially boost U.S. economic growth, a new report by President Joe Biden’s top...
U.S. Ties North Korean Hacker Group Lazarus to Huge Cryptocurrency Theft
Apr 19 2022 // The United States has linked North Korean hackers to the theft of hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency tied to the popular online game Axie Infinity, the U.S. Treasury Department said on...
U.S. Will No Longer Enforce Mask Mandate on Airplanes, Trains After Court Ruling
Apr 19 2022 // The Biden administration will no longer enforce a U.S. mask mandate on public transportation, after a federal judge in Florida on Monday ruled that the 14-month-old directive was unlawful, overturning a key White House...
Climate Change Could Cost U.S. Budget $2 Trillion a Year by End Century
Apr 18 2022 // Flood, fire, and drought fueled by climate change could take a massive bite out of the U.S. federal budget per year by the end of the century, the White House said in its first ever such assessment, released in early...
Responses to U.S. SEC Climate Disclosure Rules Keep Coming in
Apr 14 2022 // There’s been a lot of ringing in on newly proposed rules from the Securities and Exchange Commission mandating that all publicly traded U.S. companies disclose their annual greenhouse-gas emissions and the climate...
23 Injured in Texas Storms; More Tornadoes Forecast in US
Apr 14 2022 // Nearly two dozen people were injured when tornadoes swept through central Texas as part of a storm system that was expected to spawn more twisters and damaging winds Wednesday. The storms caused widespread damage Tuesday...
People Moves: QBE Re Names Barber Head of U.S. Treaty, Succeeding Larson; MNK Re Hires Pillay to Lead S. Africa Branch; Francis Promoted to MD, CFC Response
Apr 14 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at QBE Re in the U.S., specialist broker MNK Re Group and MGA CFC Underwriting. A summary of these new hires follows here. QBE Re Names Barber Head of U.S....
Dog-Related Claims Cost U.S. Home Insurers Nearly $900M in 2021
Apr 14 2022 // Dog bites and other dog-related injuries accounted for more than one-third of all homeowners liability claim dollars paid out in 2021, costing $881 million, according to an analysis by the Insurance Information Institute...
U.S. Says Advanced Hackers Have Shown Ability to Hijack Critical Infrastructure
Apr 14 2022 // Advanced hackers have shown they can take control of an array of devices that help run power stations and manufacturing plants, the U.S. government said in an alert on Wednesday, warning of the potential for cyber spies to...
Mosaic Insurance Opens Second U.S. Office in Chicago
Apr 13 2022 // Mosaic Insurance has opened an office in Chicago, IL, its second US physical location, for a growing number of employees. Located in the city’s Loop, at 318 West Adams Street, the office is Mosaic’s fourth...
Trial Date Set in Defamation Suit Against Fox News Over U.S. Election Claims
Apr 13 2022 // An April 2023 jury trial has been scheduled in Dominion Voting Systems Inc’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit accusing Fox News of trying to boost its ratings by falsely claiming the voting machine company rigged the...
U.S. Gunmakers to Ask Judge to Toss Mexico’s $10 Billion Lawsuit
Apr 12 2022 // A U.S. judge on Tuesday questioned whether allowing Mexico to sue U.S. gun manufacturers for facilitating the trafficking of weapons to drug cartels would open the door to other countries suing them, including Russia over...
US: Discrimination Based on Opioid Treatment Violates Law
Apr 8 2022 // A deepening opioid epidemic is prompting the U.S. Department of Justice to warn about discrimination against those who are prescribed medication to treat their addictions. In guidelines published Tuesday, the...
U.S. Supreme Court Mulls ‘Pill Mill’ Doctors’ Opioid Convictions
Apr 8 2022 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday wrestled with the circumstances under which doctors can be convicted of operating as drug dealers under the cover of their medical practices to illegally distribute opioid painkillers and...
