Houston Concert Tragedy Follows Other Major Crowd Disasters Around the World November 10, 2021 Fans at a Houston music festival surged toward the stage during a performance by rapper Travis Scott, triggering panic in...
Auto Safety Whistleblower Receives Maximum Award of $24 Million November 10, 2021 By Heekyong Yang and David Shepardson The U.S. auto safety regulator announced on Tuesday its first-ever reward to a whistleblower, handing out more than $24 million...
Ruling in Opioid Marketing Case a Setback for States Arguing Public Nuisance November 10, 2021 By Nate Raymond The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a $465 million judgment against Johnson & Johnson in a lawsuit by the...
Lemonade to Acquire Auto Insurer Metromile in Merger of Insurtechs November 9, 2021 By Mark Hollmer Digital insurer Lemonade plans to acquire California-based pay-per-mile auto insurance startup Metromile in an all-stock transaction as it continues to...
How J&J Shaped Report on Talc’s Links to Cancer November 9, 2021 By Jef Feeley and Anna Edney Unsealed emails reveal the role baby-powder maker Johnson & Johnson played in a report that an industry group submitted to...
Robinhood Reports Data Breach and Extortion Payment Demand November 9, 2021 The stock trading platform Robinhood Markets reported that it experienced a data breach on Nov. 3 that could potentially affect...
US Court Rejects Israeli Firm’s Immunity From Facebook Suit Over Malware November 9, 2021 By Jonathan Stempel A U.S. appeals court said Facebook can pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel’s NSO Group of exploiting a bug in its...
Judge Upholds United Airlines’ COVID Vaccine Mandate for Employees November 9, 2021 By Tom Hals and Rajesh Kumar Singh A U.S. federal judge on Monday ruled United Airlines Holdings Inc. can impose a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on its employees...
Top 20 Cyber Insurers in U.S. Including Loss Ratios: NAIC November 9, 2021 The cyber insurance market in the U.S. grew to roughly $4.1 billion in direct written premiums in 2020, an increase...
EagleView and Verisk Agree to End Litigation; EagleView’s Patents Affirmed November 8, 2021 By Andrew G. Simpson Insurance technology firms EagleView and Verisk have patched up their differences and are vowing to move ahead “enabling joint innovation.”...