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Japan Pushes to Restore Power After Quake Causes Record Blackout, Injuries, Business Interruption
Japan's northern island of Hokkaido began to restore power after a strong earthquake overnight knocked out electricity throughout the entire prefecture of more than 5 million people. The magnitude ...
State Farm Resolves Racketeering Trial With $250M Settlement
State Farm agreed to pay $250 million on the brink of a trial to customers who claimed the company tried to rig the Illinois justice system to wipe out a $1 billion jury verdict from 19 years ago. ...
Age Discrimination Hiring Practices Targeted by Upcoming Court Cases
Dale Kleber is an experienced attorney, but when he spotted an ad back in 2014 for a corporate law position at a medical device and services company that specified "no more than seven years of ...
California Falls Short in Giving Utilities Relief From Strict Liability Rules
As California's lawmakers debated late Friday night under the statehouse capitol dome in Sacramento, the city's utility district kept the lights on for them. But the legislators fell short for the ...
Tropical Storm Gordon Weakens to Tropical Depression, Missing Hurricane Predictions
Gordon was rapidly weakening to a tropical depression after coming ashore near the Alabama-Mississippi border late Tuesday and killing at least one person while knocking out power to thousands. The ...
Potential Flood of Flood Insurance Lawsuits Looming
Everyone in the insurance industry knows that the National Flood Insurance Program is on its deathbed, notwithstanding the recently passed extension, and many are prepared to step in. Insurers are ...
3-D Gun Designer Fields 600 Orders Even as Judge Blocks Publishing of Designs
A small Texas nonprofit is taking orders to mail blueprints for computer-made 3-D guns to anyone willing to pay for them just a day after a federal judge blocked the designs from being published ...
The 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season: Still Unusually Quiet
Where are all the big Atlantic storms? A year ago, Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas, kicking off a parade of destructive storms that made 2017 the costliest Atlantic season ever. So far in ...