Google Author of Diversity Memo Explores Legal Options After Firing August 9, 2017 By Jan Wolfe and Daniel Wiessner The Google software engineer fired for writing an internal memo critical of diversity hiring policies at the company faces an...
‘Pink Slime’ Defamation Settlement Cost ABC Network $177 Million August 9, 2017 Walt Disney Co. paid $177 million, in addition to insurance recoveries, to settle the closely watched “pink slime” defamation case...
Yet Another Auto Insurance Issue for Wells Fargo: Reports August 9, 2017 By Laura J. Keller and Elizabeth Dexheimer Wells Fargo & Co.’s U.S. regulators are looking into another issue involving insurance linked to auto loans as scrutiny of...
Autonomous Car Makers Seek Investment, Risk Sharing Alliances August 9, 2017 By Edward Taylor and Paul Lienert BMW and Daimler, the world’s top luxury carmakers, have announced alliances with suppliers, talking up the virtues of having a...
National General Says It Acted Properly in Wells Fargo Insurance Business August 9, 2017 By Natasha Rausch National General Holdings Corp., the auto insurer that picked up business from Wells Fargo & Co. customers who didn’t realize...
Liberty Mutual Enhances Commercial Insurance Property Form August 9, 2017 Liberty Mutual’s has launched a new proprietary Premier Property Protector all-risk policy to accommodate all of a broker’s single carrier...
How Big Data Threatens Health Insurance: Viewpoint August 8, 2017 By Cathy O'Neil For all its absurdity, the debate over Obamacare has accomplished something positive: It has educated people that insurance is really...
Fatalities Rising as Coal Mine Production Increases August 8, 2017 By Tim Loh Ray Hatfield Jr. was six months into his latest coal job when he was crushed to death in a Kentucky...
Marijuana Task Force Undercuts Hard Line by Attorney General Sessions August 8, 2017 By Sadie Gurman The betting was that law-and-order Attorney General Jeff Sessions would come out against the legalized marijuana industry with guns blazing....
Wal-Mart, Liberty Mutual Insurers Settle Over Tracy Morgan Crash August 8, 2017 By Jonathan Stempel Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has settled a lawsuit by two insurers that sought to avoid covering its multimillion-dollar payout to comedian...