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The California Department of Insurance completed a review of the state’s first wildfire catastrophe model, marking a dramatic change in the state’s property/casualty insurance ratemaking process. The new model for use by insurers in assessing wildfire risk in property insurance …
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Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. settled claims worth $200 million in an antitrust case in Pennsylvania alleging that the firm, along with others, colluded to fix prices of generic drugs. The units of India’s number one drugmaker — Sun Pharmaceutical Industries …
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Amazon faces two mass lawsuits from retailers and consumers worth up to 4 billion pounds ($5.4 billion) for allegedly abusing its dominant position, after a London tribunal on Thursday certified the cases could proceed. Andreas Stephan, a competition law academic, …
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A typhoon moving toward northern Philippines may intensify further before making landfall as early as tonight, with heavy rain and strong winds likely to impact some rice and corn crops. Typhoon Co-may — known locally as Emong — has slowed …
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Monday that it is closing a preliminary evaluation into 454,840 Nissan 7201.T vehicles over engine failure after the Japanese automaker issued a recall in June. The probe, which was opened in December …
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Candace Frazee recently walked through the burnt remains of The Bunny Museum, searching for anything that could be salvaged before workers cleared the land. The Eaton Fire in Southern California in January scorched more than 60,000 bunny objects and memorabilia, …
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Southern California Edison will set up a program to compensate victims of a deadly Los Angeles wildfire that it has acknowledged may be linked to the company’s electrical equipment. The utility, owned by Edison International, said the voluntary claims program …
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In the age of a tech-fueled automotive transformation in which vehicle usage is at an all-time high, the public perception of uncertainty around driverless cars remains. As of 2025, only 13% of U.S. Consumers would trust riding in an autonomous …
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Uber Technologies Inc. is suing a group of lawyers and medical providers in Los Angeles who it says have made fraudulent insurance claims that cost the company millions in legal fees — the third such lawsuit it’s filed this year. …
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A security patch released by Microsoft earlier this month failed to fully fix a critical flaw in the U.S. tech company’s SharePoint server software that had been identified at a hacking competition in May, opening the door to a sweeping …
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