Conservative Attacks on Diversity Efforts in Corporate America Keep Coming August 24, 2023 By Kelsey Butler Before the US Supreme Court did away with affirmative action in college admissions, corporate America was bracing itself for attacks...
United Airlines in $30 Million Settlement With Quadriplegic Man’s Family August 24, 2023 By Jonathan Stempel United Airlines has agreed to a $30 million settlement after a deplaning incident left a quadriplegic man in a vegetative...
Federal Reserve Fines Alabama Bank $3M for Flood Insurance Monitoring Issues August 24, 2023 By Insurance Journal Staff Reports The Federal Reserve Board has fined Regions Bank, based in Birmingham, Alabama, almost $3 million for failing to ensure that...
Weather Extremes May Force More Farmers, Ranchers to Consider Costly Irrigation August 24, 2023 By Melina Walling The Texas ranch where Gilda Jackson trains and sells horses has been plagued by grasshoppers this year, a problem that...
FEMA Has Paid Out $5.6M so far to Hawaii Wildfire Survivors August 24, 2023 By Ken Sweet and Mae Anderson The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it has approved more than $5.6 million in assistance to nearly 2,000 households in...
Judge Rejects Newsmax Bid to Narrow Smartmatic Lawsuit Over 2020 US Election August 24, 2023 By Tom Hals and Helen Coster A Delaware judge on Wednesday rejected Newsmax Media’s bid to narrow the allegedly defamatory statements that the right-wing U.S. television...
China Allows Allianz to Launch Onshore Fund Management Company August 24, 2023 China’s securities regulator on Thursday granted approval to Allianz Global Investors (Allianz GI) to set up an onshore fund management...
People Moves: Dyer Appointed Chief Risk Officer for Aspen UK; Sompo Int’l Taps Walker From Allianz for Distribution Insurance, APAC; BMS Names Hewitt as Head of Japan August 24, 2023 This edition of International People Moves detail appointments at Aspen Insurance Holdings, Sompo International, and BMS Group. A summary of...
Big Tech Braces for Roll-Out of EU’s Digital Services Act August 24, 2023 By Martin Coulter More than a dozen of the world’s biggest tech companies face unprecedented legal scrutiny, as the European Union’s sweeping Digital...
Japan Begins Releasing Nuclear Wastewater in Process That Could Last 30 Years August 24, 2023 By Shoko Oda Japan started the release of treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear site into the Pacific Ocean in a process that...