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Insurer Loses Bid to Recover $340M Payout for Dubai Hotel Fire

An insurance company that was ordered to pay more than a billion Dirhams in damages for a 2015 New Year’s Eve fire in Dubai has lost a civil lawsuit that it filed to try and recover the money. Two years …

Thai Club Owner Acquitted in Fatal New Year’s Fire

A Thai appeals court on Tuesday acquitted a nightclub owner of responsibility for a fire that killed 67 people in Bangkok on New Year’s Day in 2009, reversing a lower court’s ruling. More than 1,000 revelers were inside the Santika …