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Georgia Shop Owner Who Paid Worker 91,500 Oily Pennies Ordered to Pay $40,000 More

The owner of an auto repair shop who paid a former employee with 91,500 oily pennies has been ordered by a judge to pay nearly 4 million more cents. A federal judge ruled that Miles Walker, who owns A OK …

London Metal Exchange Failed to Probe Tsingshan Before Nickel Chaos, Court Hears

The London Metal Exchange failed to investigate a large nickel position held by China’s Tsingshan that sparked a chaotic surge in prices and billions of dollars of canceled trades, lawyers told a London court on Thursday, despite a previous incident …

UK PM Unveils War-Risk Insurance Scheme to Spur Ukraine Reconstruction

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the creation of a framework for war-risk insurance backed by the Group of Seven and designed to encourage private investors to help rebuild Ukraine. Speaking at the opening of the Ukraine Recovery Conference in …

Russia Is Likely to Quit Black Sea Grain Deal in July: Ukraine Envoy

Russia is 99.9% certain to quit a U.N.-brokered deal on the safe wartime passage of Black Sea grain next month because it no longer needs Ukrainian ports to export ammonia, a senior Ukrainian diplomat said. The United Nations and Turkey …

Insurer Capital Rule Changes in UK to Start by End of 2023, Finance Ministry Says

Britain’s finance ministry said on Thursday that the first batch of post-Brexit reforms to “Solvency II” capital rules for insurers, which it hopes will unlock billions of pounds to boost growth, will be implemented by the end of this year. …

McKinsey Creates New Ethics Role After $641 Million Opioid Fallout

McKinsey & Co. is beefing up its ethics department after a series of high-profile controversies, including helping Purdue Pharma LP “turbocharge” opioid sales. The management consulting giant is hiring for a newly created position with its global “ethics allegations management …

Former Root CMO Ordered Detained for Contempt

Root Inc’s former chief marketing officer – accused in a lawsuit by the company of syphoning $10 million from it – was ordered detained for contempt of court, and he will need to find another way to pay his attorneys. …

Company Can’t Say Whether More Air-Bag Inflators Might Explode, Hurl Shrapnel

A company that makes air-bag inflators that have exploded in eight incidents involving two deaths and seven injuries argued Tuesday that it can’t say for sure whether its inflators might cause further such incidents. In a reply to the National …

Fired Amazon Labor Organizer in Alabama Reinstated After Filing Complaint, Union Says

A union organizer who was fired by Amazon was reinstated by the company after she filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board, according to the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. The union had said earlier this month …

Structured Settlement Cash-out Left Impaired Man with Little. Transamerica Not Liable

Transamerica’s annuity and life insurance units have dodged a bullet and are not liable for their roles in a mentally challenged man giving away most all of his lifetime structured-settlement benefits, a federal appeals court decided. The U.S. 11th Circuit …

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