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North Dakota-Based Healthcare Billing Service Company Hacked

Federal investigators say a cyber attack on a North Dakota-based company that provides software and billing services for doctors and healthcare professionals affected more than a half-million customers. Adaptive Health Integrations of Williston was the target of a hacking incident …

Kentucky Becomes 21st State to Adopt Model Cyber Security Law for Insurers

Kentucky has become the 21st state to adopt a data security law that will require insurers and larger agencies to beef up measures designed to help prevent cyber attacks and data breaches. Gov. Andy Beshear in April signed House Bill …

New Orleans Paying to Move Tenants From Neglected Apartments

New Orleans is paying to relocate all remaining residents of a bankrupt apartment complex where people said a landlord’s neglect forced them into unsanitary living conditions with rampant mold, rodents and a broken pipe that spewed raw sewage. The rare …

EEOC Sues Michigan Foods Company Over Alleged Sexual Harassment

Eden Foods, Inc., an organic foods company headquartered in Clinton, Michigan that claims to be the premier natural foods company in the Americas, violated federal law by subjecting female employees to repeated sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission …

Colorado Jury Awards Nearly $9M in Fertility Fraud Case

A jury has awarded nearly $9 million to three families who accused a Colorado fertility doctor of using his own sperm to inseminate three mothers who requested anonymous donors. The jury found that Dr. Paul B. Jones and his clinic, …

USC Settles with Men Who Say Campus Doctor Abused Them

Kenny Oshita was a first semester law student at the University of Southern California when a visit to a school doctor for a possible sexual disease turned into an invasive procedure that left him feeling violated. He was not alone. …

Electric Utilities in Pacific Northwest Spending Millions to Lower Wildfire Risk

Private electric utilities in the Pacific Northwest are planning tens of millions of dollars in upgrades to reduce the risk that their power lines could spark wildfires during extreme weather. Utilities such as Pacific Power, Avista, Idaho Power, Portland General …

Florida Man Charged with Fraud After Claiming He Was in Uber Crash

A South Florida man has been charged in connection with what appears to be a new twist on auto insurance fraud. State and local authorities said that Victor Van Vickery, 33, of Delray Beach, claimed to be in a Uber …

U.S. Nuclear Agency Seeks Documentation on Quake Safety of New Reactor Design

An official with the U.S. nuclear power regulator has ordered staff to supply documents that could lead to a review of a 2020 approval of a new type of nuclear power reactor after an engineer raised concerns about its ability …

Plant-Based Meat Firm Accuses Beyond Meat, Dunkin’ of Trademark Breach Over Slogan

A Philadelphia company has sued Dunkin’ Brands Inc. and Beyond Meat Inc. claiming the companies violated its trademark with their “Great Taste, Plant-Based” slogan for a meatless sausage breakfast sandwich. Vegadelphia Foods said in its lawsuit filed on Thursday in …

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