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Payment Partners Could Face Lawsuits, Fines in Target Data Breach
Companies that help Target Corp process payments could face millions of dollars in fines and costs resulting from the unprecedented data breach that struck the retailer over the holiday shopping ...
Sept 11 Settlement Between American Air, Cantor Fitzgerald Approved
A federal judge on Monday approved a $135 million settlement between American Airlines Group Inc. and Cantor Fitzgerald over business and property losses suffered by the financial services company in ...
Top Jury Awards in 2013
U.S. juries awarded three verdicts of $1 billion or more for the third straight year in 2013, topped by a $1.2 billion award against Dow Chemical Co., the largest ever in a price-fixing case. Second ...
West Virginia Spill Triggers Calls for Stronger Chemical Regulation
A chemical spill that left 300,000 people in West Virginia unable to drink their water is reviving calls for more stringent regulation of thousands of chemical storage sites in the U.S., especially ...
Savvy Insurers Can Make Homeowners More Profitable
The lion's share of profitability for carriers has traditionally come from the auto business, but this segment is slowing for a number of reasons—and speed bumps may soon give way to roadblocks. ...
Scientists Say Americans Becoming Weather Wimps; Statistics Prove It
We've become weather wimps. As the world warms, the United States is getting fewer bitter cold spells like the one that gripped much of the nation last week. So when a deep freeze strikes, scientists ...
3 More Well-Known But Unidentified Retailers Were Breach Victims: Reuters
Target Corp. and Neiman Marcus are not the only U.S. retailers whose networks were breached over the holiday shopping season last year, according to sources familiar with attacks on other merchants ...
Economic Cost of January Freeze Put at $5B, Insurance Costs Not Available Yet
Hunkering down at home rather than going to work, canceling thousands of flights and repairing burst pipes from the Midwest to the Southeast has its price. By one estimate, about $5 billion. The ...