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Airports Globally Are Investing Billions in Measures to Counter Climate Change Risks
Global airport operators, faced with rising sea levels and more powerful storms as the climate changes, are starting to invest in measures including higher runways, seawalls and better drainage ...
Scientist Panel Prepared to Recommend Much Deeper Cuts in Fossil-Fuel Pollution
A panel of the world's top climate scientists is preparing to recommend much deeper cuts in fossil-fuel pollution than currently suggested as a pathway to stave off a dangerous increase in global ...
Apple Wins Reversal of Patent Lawsuit Verdict Involving Computer Processing Tech
Apple Inc persuaded a federal appeals court on Friday to throw out a $234 million damages award in favor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's patent licensing arm for infringing a patent on ...
How Institutional Clients Have Improved the Practice of Law
For attorneys representing institutional clients such as insurance companies and larger corporations, the billing excesses depicted in novels and films like "The Firm" and the golden days of ...
Nationwide, Nexar Report Telematics Success On Commercial Auto Pilot
One of Nationwide's commercial insurance policyholders is realizing the benefits of venture-capital investment that the insurer made in a telematics startup and a pilot program that is reducing risky ...
Facebook Cyber Breach Affects 50M Users
Facebook Inc has discovered a security issue affecting about 50 million user accounts, the company said on Friday. Facebook said attackers stole Facebook access tokens through its "view as" feature, ...
Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Others Must Face Stock Lending Antitrust Suit
Major banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Bank of America Corp., Credit Suisse Group AG and JPMorgan Chase & Co. must face allegations that they conspired to prevent the "antiquated" stock ...
UK Insurer Shares Tank After Hostile Weather and RSA Profit Warning
Just like a lot of British houses this summer, U.K. insurance stocks are sinking. The country's nonlife insurers sector had its steepest drop in more than a year-and-a-half on Friday after its ...