A pair of wildfires tearing through vineyards and brushy hills threatened some 10,000 homes in Northern California on Tuesday. The two fires straddling Mendocino and Lake counties had burned seven homes by Monday night along with some 107 square miles …
A U.S. appeals court will reconsider its decision to throw out a $210 million nationwide class-action settlement for owners of Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Motors Corp. vehicles whose fuel economy was inflated. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals …
Attacks targeting business email accounts continued to climb in the second quarter. Hardest hit were organizations using Office 365, the popular cloud-based product, according to data released by specialty insurer Beazley. Email compromises accounted for 23 percent of incidents reported …
A lawsuit charges that improper equipment led a Delaware firefighter to fall to his death from a helicopter during a 2016 training exercise. The News Journal of Wilmington reported that firefighter Timothy McClanahan’s family filed the lawsuit this month. The …
Maryland, a state that already had one of the country’s most punishing overdose mortality rates, notched a record-high number of drug deaths last year. The grim milestone was fueled by an alarming increase of fentanyl-related fatalities. Despite renewed efforts to …
A Long Island county where a 12-year-old boy died during a boating safety lesson now has a new law aimed at preventing such tragedies from happening again. Newsday reports that Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone signed Ryan’s Law on Saturday …
A draft of a sweeping data privacy bill has been submitted to India’s government that, if enacted, will restrict the transfer and storage of information on more than 1 billion people by global technology corporations from Facebook Inc. to Google. …
Travelers Insurance is seeking a full Sixth Circuit court reconsideration of its three-judge panel ruling that said the insurer’s crime insurance policy’s computer fraud clause covered a loss due to money transfer involving fraudulent emails. In seeking an en banc …
The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. has appointed Eric C. Cernak has the head of its cyber practice. In this role, Cernak is responsible for overseeing corporate cyber strategy across all of its commercial lines and specialty businesses, to ensure a …
Hong Kong billionaire Richard Li’s FWD Group is considering listing in Singapore with a dual-class structure, as the insurer moves ahead with its initial public offering preparations, people with knowledge of the matter said. FWD is discussing with advisers the …
