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Rains Ease but Risk of River Flooding in Central U.S. Still High
May 31 2019 // Rain-swollen rivers threatened more flooding on Thursday in Arkansas, Louisiana, Illinois and Oklahoma, as Tulsa’s mayor warned that the decades-old levee system in his city would be at risk even as waters receded...
Los Angeles County Files Suit Against Bayer’s Monsanto over PCBs
May 31 2019 // Los Angeles County sued Monsanto Co. on Thursday, seeking to force the unit of Germany’s Bayer AG to help pay for reducing PCB contamination in dozens of bodies of water. The most populous U.S. county, which has...
Beer Settlement Offers Partial Refunds Over ‘Hawaii’ Claims
May 31 2019 // The maker of Kona beer agreed to offer partial refunds to settle a lawsuit claiming it misled consumers in the continental United States into believing the craft brew was actually made in Hawaii, causing them to...
New Hampshire Sues 3M, DuPont, Other Chemical Companies
May 31 2019 // New Hampshire has sued eight companies including 3M and the DuPont Co. for damage it says has been caused by a class of potentially toxic chemicals found in pizza boxes, fast-food wrappers and drinking water. The...
Facebook Rebuffed by Irish Supreme Court Over Data Transfer Case Referral
May 31 2019 // The European Court of Justice (ECJ) will hear a landmark privacy case regarding the transfer of EU citizens’ data to the United States in July, after Facebook’s bid to stop its referral was blocked by...
IBHS Chief Wright Urges Congress to Consider Tax Credits for Climate Resilience
May 30 2019 // Roy E. Wright, CEO and president of the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety, wants Congress to consider financing resilience. The IBHS chief testified during a recent appearance before the House Ways and...
Judge Dismisses Investors’ Claim Cboe Allowed Rigging of Stock Market ‘Fear Gauge’
May 30 2019 // A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit in which investors accused the parent of the Chicago Board Options Exchange of letting anonymous traders rig Wall Street’s main gauge of future stock market volatility...
7 U.S. Exchanges Face Investors’ Claims for Favoring High Frequency Traders
May 30 2019 // A Manhattan federal judge has ordered seven U.S. stock exchanges to face proposed class-action claims that they defrauded ordinary investors by quietly enabling high-frequency traders to trade faster and at better...
Chicago Fitness Club to Pay $45K to Settle Sex Harassment Suit
May 30 2019 // A Chicago fitness club will pay $45,000 and provide other relief to settle a federal sex harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) says an employee of Lakeshore...
Sovos Acquires Iowa’s Eagle Technology Management
May 29 2019 // Global tax software provider Sovos is acquiring Iowa-based Eagle Technology Management (ETM), which provides statutory financial reporting and insurance premium tax software to insurers, and unclaimed property reporting...
AAA Survey: Floridians Concerned for Upcoming Hurricane Season
May 29 2019 // Floridians are becoming more concerned about hurricane season, after enduring four major storms in the past three years, including a category five last year, according to a survey from AAA. The AAA survey, conducted online...
Alibaba Plans $20B Listing in Hong Kong to Boost Technology Investments: Sources
May 28 2019 // Alibaba is considering raising as much as $20 billion through a listing in Hong Kong, people familiar with the matter told Reuters, lining up a second blockbuster deal following its 2014 record $25 billion float in New...
U.S. Court Clears Swiss Bank UBS in Whistleblower’s $20 Million Libel Suit
May 28 2019 // A New York appeals court has dismissed a U.S. whistleblower’s $20 million libel suit against Swiss bank UBS, his former employer, concluding that statements the Zurich-based bank made about him were at least...
U.S. Farmers Face Insurance, Aid Decisions as Persistent Rains Prevent Planting
May 28 2019 // Kansas farmer Mark Nelson has until Saturday to plant his corn or lose the insurance that protects him from a drop in prices or yield. Instead, he’s hopping on a plane to visit his father in Chicago. Nelson is now...
China Financial Regulator Sees ‘Very Limited’ Impact from Trade War with U.S.
May 28 2019 // The U.S. escalation of trade tensions won’t solve any of its problems but will create volatility in global markets and hurt the world economy, according to China’s top financial regulator. Higher U.S. tariffs...
Opioid Litigation Tests Public Nuisance Claim Theory
May 27 2019 // Determining who foots the bill for America’s growing opioid epidemic may depend on how well the state of Oklahoma deploys a high-risk legal strategy this week against Johnson & Johnson and Teva Pharmaceutical...
FAA ‘Very Encouraged’ by Talk with World’s Regulators on Grounded Boeing 737
May 24 2019 // The chief U.S. aviation regulator said he was very encouraged by a one-day discussion with his counterparts from around the world on the steps needed to return Boeing Co.’s grounded 737 Max jetliner to service,...
As Many as 8 Hurricanes Forecast for ‘Near Normal’ 2019 Hurricane Season
May 24 2019 // As many as 8 hurricanes may form in the Atlantic in 2019, a “near normal” season following two years of storms that have left a trail of death and destruction in the Caribbean and U.S. coast. Nine to 15 named...
At Least 3 Dead in Central U.S. Storms
May 23 2019 // A flooded Oklahoma was deluged once again on Wednesday following days of severe weather that’s blamed for at least three deaths after also battering Iowa, Kansas and Missouri, “The biggest concern is more rain....
Feinberg Named Mediator for Bayer Roundup Liability Settlement
May 23 2019 // A U.S. judge on Wednesday appointed prominent attorney Kenneth Feinberg as mediator for court-mandated settlement talks in the federal litigation over allegations that Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer...
