How Everybody Ends Up Paying for Climate Crisis March 15, 2021 By David R. Baker and Mark Chediak Fallout from last month’s deadly deep freeze in Texas has quietly spread to people living hundreds of miles away. Minnesota...
Investor Suit Alleges Tesla CEO Musk’s Tweets Violate SEC Pact March 15, 2021 By Jonathan Stempel Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk has been sued by a shareholder who accused him of violating his 2018 settlement...
OSHA to Review COVID-19 Workplace Safety Enforcement Under Trump March 15, 2021 By Chris Kirkham Federal workplace safety regulators said on Friday they will revisit several COVID-19 related safety investigations performed during the Trump administration...
Internet Law Protects Video Platform From Church’s Bias Claim, Court Rules March 15, 2021 By Bob Van Voris Vimeo Inc. is immune to a lawsuit by a church whose account it deleted for promoting gay conversion, the federal...
Ransom-Seeking Hackers Are Exploiting Flaws in Microsoft Email Software March 12, 2021 By Raphael Satter Ransom-seeking hackers have begun taking advantage of a recently disclosed flaw in Microsoft’s widely used mail server software, the company...
$245M Insurtech Funding Wrap-Up: Corvus, AgentSync, Cowbell Cyber, WeLab, Hi Marley March 12, 2021 Some serious money has been sent the way of various insurance startups over the past week. Investors backed cutting-edge commercial...
P/C Insurers Improved Profitability in Year of Coronavirus: AM Best March 12, 2021 Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. property/casualty (P/C) industry improved its overall profitability in 2020, with a 68% increase in...
Purdue Pharma’s Sacklers Increase Opioid Settlement Offer to $4.3B: Reuters March 12, 2021 By Mike Spector Members of the Sackler family who own Purdue Pharma LP have offered roughly $4.3 billion to resolve sprawling opioid litigation,...
Insurance Safety Institute Finds Adaptive Cruise Control Raises Fatal Crash Risk March 12, 2021 By Tina Bellon Adaptive cruise control systems on cars, which control braking and speed, raise the risk of traffic crashes because the technology...
Transactional Risk Insurance Hits Record High Despite Pandemic: Marsh March 12, 2021 After a dramatic downturn in the second quarter of 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, merger and acquisition (M&A) deal...