Meatpacking Plants Linked to Up to 8% of Early U.S. COVID Cases November 27, 2020 By Mike Dorning As many as one in 12 cases of Covid-19 in the early stage of the pandemic in the U.S. can...
Road Rage Lawsuit Has Implications for Police Shootings: Opinion November 25, 2020 By Stephen L. Carter, Bloomberg Opinion Can you be fired from a government job for using a firearm in self-defense? That question arose in a recent...
Top Biden Tech Advisor Is Critic of Internet Firms; Helped Craft California Privacy Law November 25, 2020 By Joseph Menn President-elect Joe Biden’s top technology adviser helped craft California’s landmark online privacy law and recently condemned a controversial federal statute...
COVID-19 Vaccines Could Be Sent to States Within 24 Hours of FDA’s OK: Official November 25, 2020 The first Americans could receive a COVID-19 vaccine as soon as Dec. 11, the chief scientific adviser for the U.S....
Home Depot to Pay $17.5 Million to Settle With States Over 2014 Data Breach Claims November 25, 2020 By Jonathan Stempel Home Depot Inc., the largest U.S. home improvement retailer, on Tuesday reached a $17.5 million settlement to resolve a multistate...
Rawlins to Become CEO of Shelter Mutual as Moore to Retire November 25, 2020 Shelter Insurance announced that Randa Rawlins would become Shelter Mutual Insurance Co.’s next president and CEO, effective Jan. 1, 2021,...
Hippo Gets $350M Investment, Reinsurance Treaty From Mitsui Sumitomo November 25, 2020 Hippo Enterprises, an MGA insurtech focused on homeowners insurance, secured a $350 million capital investment designed to help fuel further...
Safety Group Lists Its Top 10 ‘Worst’ Toys of This Holiday Season November 25, 2020 By Andrew G. Simpson Cute plastic animals with tiny accessories that pose a choking hazard, Black Panther-inspired claws with the potential to cause facial...
Travel Insurance Surges Along with Coronavirus This Thanksgiving November 25, 2020 By Noor Zainab Hussain U.S. websites have seen a surge in travelers seeking expensive ironclad insurance this Thanksgiving, as Americans desperate to break the...
Usage-Based Insurer Metromile to Become Public Company November 24, 2020 Metromile Inc., the pay-per-mile auto insurer, has reached a deal to go public by merging with Insu Acquisition Corp. II...