Meta Loses Second Bid to Thwart FTC’s Revisions to Privacy Pact March 15, 2024 By Leah Nylen and Sabrina Willmer Meta Platforms Inc.’s lost its second court ruling this week seeking to stop the Federal Trade Commission’s reopening a 2020...
Survey: 78M Americans Damaged Their Smartphones in the Last Year March 15, 2024 The amount of money spent on cellphone screen repairs surged to $8.3 billion in 2023, nearly tripling the amount spent...
Bayer Weighs ‘Texas Two-Step’ Bankruptcy Filing Over Roundup March 15, 2024 By Jef Feeley, Tim Loh and Crystal Tse Bayer AG is weighing whether to use a controversial legal maneuver known as the Texas Two-Step bankruptcy to try to...
Insurers, Insureds Must Collaborate to Get Ahead of Social Inflation March 15, 2024 Executive Summary: Setting up mock jury trials, taking cases to trial and refraining from issuing “hammer” letters to lower-layer insurers...
Texas Fires Have Emitted a Near-Record Amount of Carbon March 14, 2024 By Zahra Hirji Texas fires released roughly 3.4 million metric ton of carbon dioxide in January and February, according to a new analysis....
Viewpoint: UIM Coverage and The ‘Floating Layer’ Theory March 14, 2024 By Gary L. Wickert Most insurance claims professionals understand that, as opposed to uninsured motorist (UM) coverage, which pays damages to an insured who...
Report: Ransomware Attacks ‘More Frequent, More Sophisticated, More Effective’ March 14, 2024 By Nehemiah Balaoro Ransomware attackers are using a multitude of techniques to gain access in attacks that are becoming “more frequent, more sophisticated,...
Class Action Lawsuits Pile up Over Unitedhealth Data Breach March 13, 2024 By Brendan Pierson UnitedHealth Group has already been hit with at least six class action lawsuits accusing it of failing to protect millions...
Surfside Tower Garage, Pool Deck Had Faulty Support Columns, Prelim Report Shows March 12, 2024 Federal investigators determining why a Florida condominium tower partially collapsed three years ago, killing 98 people, said Thursday there were...
Nvidia Is Sued by Authors Over AI Use of Copyrighted Works March 12, 2024 By Jonathan Stempel Nvidia, whose chips power artificial intelligence, has been sued by three authors who said it used their copyrighted books without...