Mississippi River Barge Shipping Resumes After Floods, but Rains to Return May 17, 2019 By Karl Plume and Rod Nickel The upper Mississippi River fully reopened to boat and barge traffic this week for the first time since November as...
Loose Lips and FX Tips: How Chats Cost Banks $1.2 Billion May 17, 2019 By Aoife White and Stephanie Bodoni Talk may be cheap, but in currency traders’ chatrooms, at least, improper messages can be very expensive for their companies....
Stay or Go? As Weather Gets Wilder, States Urged to Prepare for Displacement May 17, 2019 By Megan Rowling GENEVA — Warned that Typhoon Haiyan would slam into the coastal part of the Philippine town of Dulag in November...
Bayer Bets on ‘Silver Bullet’ Defense in Roundup Litigation May 17, 2019 By Tina Bellon Bayer AG plans to argue that a $2 billion jury award and thousands of U.S. lawsuits claiming its glyphosate-based weed...
WCRI: States Without Work Comp Fee Schedules Paying the Price May 17, 2019 By Jim Sams The dwindling number of states that have no fee schedule, or that set fees according to a percentage of billed...
California Dioceses Create Clergy Abuse Compensation Program May 16, 2019 SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Six Roman Catholic dioceses in California are creating a program to compensate people who were sexually abused...
Tesla Autopilot was Engaged During Fatal Florida Crash May 16, 2019 By David Shepardson WASHINGTON — Tesla Inc’s Autopilot feature was engaged during a fatal March 1 crash of a 2018 Model 3 in...
Purdue Is Sued by Five More States Over OxyContin Marketing May 16, 2019 Purdue Pharma LP and its billionaire owners are being sued by five more states alleging the company’s aggressive marketing of...
Tesla Fires Sound Alarms About Safety of Electric-Car Batteries May 16, 2019 Electric vehicles may be less prone to catch fire than gas guzzlers, but recent blazes involving Tesla Inc. and NIO...
Boeing Crashes Leave $450 Million Bill for European Insurers May 16, 2019 By Will Hadfield and Patrick Winters Europe’s biggest insurers are on the hook for as much as $450 million from a pair of airline crashes involving...