Bayer’s $7 Billion Effort to End Roundup Curse Draws Skepticism February 19, 2026 By Sonja Wind Bayer AG Chief Executive Officer Bill Anderson’s effort to extricate the company from the years-long legal battles related to its...
Diocese’s Sex Abuse Claims Fund to Get $180 Million Boost to Pay Survivors February 19, 2026 The Catholic Diocese of Camden, New Jersey and several holdout insurers have agreed to add $180 million to a trust...
Growing Civil Unrest Claims Has an Insurance Sting February 18, 2026 By Gautam Naik and Frances Schwartzkopff After relatively few claims globally in 2025, Howden Re is expecting the U.S. to see a clear increase in SRCC...
Asbestos Lawsuits Prompt Vanderbilt Minerals to File Bankruptcy February 18, 2026 By Steven Church Vanderbilt Minerals, which mines materials used in industrial products, filed for bankruptcy after its cash flow was overwhelmed by an...
OpenAI Deleted Word ‘Safely’ From Its Mission – Its New Structure Is A Test February 17, 2026 OpenAI, the maker of the most popular AI chatbot, used to say it aimed to build artificial intelligence that “safely...
JPMorgan Customers Can Sue Over Low Rates on Cash Sweeps, Judge Rules February 17, 2026 By Jonathan Stempel JPMorgan Chase must face part of a proposed class action lawsuit accusing the largest U.S. bank of paying brokerage and...
Jury Finds Johnson & Johnson Liable for Cancer in Latest Talc Trial February 17, 2026 By Diana Novak Jones A jury in Pennsylvania state court on Friday awarded $250,000 to the family of a woman who sued Johnson &...
Nestle, Danone Cited in France’s Widening Infant Formula Probe February 17, 2026 By Francois de Beaupuy and Jenny Che The Paris prosecutor’s office opened probes into allegedly tainted infant formula distributed by Nestlé SA, Danone, Groupe Lactalis and two...
Sources: Palo Alto Didn’t Tie China to Hacking Campaign Fearing Retaliation From Beijing February 13, 2026 By Raphael Satter and AJ Vicens Palo Alto Networks opted not to tie China to a global cyberespionage campaign the firm exposed last week over concerns...
YouTube Lawyer Sees No Addiction From Half Hour of Videos February 11, 2026 By Madlin Mekelburg A 20-year-old in a landmark social media addiction trial used YouTube for an average of just 29 minutes per day...