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Costco Sued for Misleading Consumers About Slave-Harvested Shrimp
Costco Wholesale Corp. was sued for selling farmed shrimp from Thailand, where slave labor and human trafficking in the fishing industry are widespread, and allegedly misleading U.S. consumers about ...
Rising Sea Level Boosts Risk to U.S. Coastal Cities of Hurricane-Related Flood Damage
Rising sea levels in the coming years will create heightened risk of severe economic damage from hurricane-related flood in U.S. coastal cities, RMS asserted in a new report. The catastrophe modeling ...
China Tianjin Port Blast Forces the World’s Automakers to Divert Shipments
Toyota Motor Corp and rival global automakers are looking to divert shipments to Shanghai and other ports from Tianjin after massive explosions last week disrupted operations indefinitely at China's ...
Target Achieves Settlement With Visa Over 2013 Data Breach
Target Corp said it has reached an agreement with Visa Inc card issuers to reimburse up to $67 million in costs related to a data breach at the retailer in 2013, according to a source familiar with ...
Fitch: China Insurers Will Face Bulk of Insured Losses From Explosion
China's homegrown insurers will likely face the bulk of the financial losses from massive explosions at a chemical storage site in Tianjin earlier this month. What's more, the claims could hurt, ...
IRS Taxpayer-Data Theft Much Worse Than Previously Thought
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said Monday a hacking attack into one of its computer databases revealed in May was much more extensive than previously thought, with nearly three times as ...
Allianz Sees Limited Losses From China Explosion; Other Insurers Still Assessing
Allianz SE, Europe's biggest insurance company, said it doesn't expect "major" financial losses from explosions at a chemical storage site in China, as the death toll from the disaster increased. ...
Death Toll in China Blast Rises to 112; Contamination Fears Persist
Authorities pulled more bodies from a massive blast site in the Chinese port of Tianjin, pushing the death toll to 112 on Sunday as teams scrambled to clear dangerous chemical contamination. Hundreds ...