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Ohio St. Pays $875K For Failure to Disclose Professor’s Foreign Government Support

The Ohio State University (OSU), a public university in Columbus, Ohio, has paid $875,689 to resolve civil allegations that it failed to disclose an OSU professor’s affiliations with and support from a foreign government in connection with federal research funding. …

OSHA Proposes $145K Fine Against Caterpillar After Worker Death in Ohio

The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposed fines of $145,027 against Caterpillar Inc. for not installing a guardrail or travel restraint at a foundry outside Peoria where a worker fell into molten iron in June. Steven Dierkes, 39, of …

Google to Pay About $400 Million to Settle Location-Tracking Lawsuit

Alphabet’s Google will pay $391.5 million to settle allegations by 40 states that the search and advertising giant illegally tracked users’ locations, the Michigan attorney general’s office said Monday. The investigation and settlement, which was led by Oregon and Nebraska, …

Skyward Specialty in Texas Files Registration Statement for IPO

Skyward Specialty Insurance Group Inc. in Houston, Texas, filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission relating to a proposed initial public offering of shares of its common stock. The number of shares to …

Chicago-based Hub to Offer Cannabis Dispensary Insurance Digital Platform

Chicago, Illinois-based Hub International Limited is launching Hub Cannabis Dispensary Insurance, accessible through HUB’s digital commercial insurance platform. The announcement marks HUB’s ongoing effort to expand its digital product portfolio for small businesses, as well as Hubs’s ongoing collaboration with …

Legacy Specialist Enstar Completes Loss Portfolio Transfer With Argo Group

Enstar Group Ltd., the Bermuda-based legacy acquisition specialist, announced that one of its wholly owned subsidiaries has closed its loss portfolio transfer transaction with specialty insurance underwriter Argo Group International Holdings Ltd. to reinsure a number of its direct U.S. …

Elon Musk Trial Opens to Decide Fate of His $56B Tesla Pay

A trial opened Monday over shareholder allegations that Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package was rigged with easy performance targets and that investors were duped into approving it, with Musk slated to take the stand later …

California Sues Over ‘Forever Chemicals’ That Taint Water

A lawsuit filed by the state of California accuses 3M, Dupont and 16 smaller companies of covering up the harm caused to the environment and the public from chemicals manufactured by the firms that have over decades found their way …

Captain of Burning Dive Boat in California Pleads Not Guilty in 34 Deaths

A dive boat captain pleaded not guilty in federal court for a second time to manslaughter in the fiery deaths of 34 people trapped below deck on his burning vessel three years ago off Southern California. A federal grand jury …

Mindfulness Program Hopes to Alleviate Stress After Hurricanes

The 10 women gathered on yoga mats in a New Orleans suburb, the lights dimmed. “I’d like to invite you to close your eyes,” instructor Stephanie Osborne said in a soothing voice from the front of the room. The only …

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