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China Opens Door to More Foreign Investment in Financial Sector
China opened up its financial sector to more foreign investment as the government said it will take targeted measures to cope with rising risks and challenges facing the industry. Foreign investors ...
Privacy Lawsuits Benefit Attorneys More than Consumers: Chamber Study
Statutes allowing plaintiff lawyers to enforce privacy laws through private rights of action are clogging courts and provide no real benefit to consumers, a report from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's ...
Google Settles 2010 Privacy Lawsuit With Modest Payment Agreement
Google is poised to pay a modest $13 million to end a 2010 privacy lawsuit that was once called the biggest U.S. wiretap case everand threatened the internet giant with billions of dollars in ...
Equifax Will Fork Over Up to $700M in U.S. Breach Probe Resolution
Equifax Inc. agreed to pay up to $700 million to resolve U.S. federal and state investigations into the 2017 hack that compromised some of the most sensitive information of more than 140 million ...
E-Scooter Users Worry About Harm but Are Unaware of Coverage Needs: Survey
Carriers have a potentially huge business opportunity with users of e-scooters - motorized scooters popping up in medium- and large-sized cities in the U.S. and abroad. The reason: scooter users are ...
The Latest Launches From Chubb, Berkshire Hathaway and CFC Underwriting
Chubb added new coverage for the food service industry on its digital platform for small businesses. Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies expanded its commercial automobile product into new ...
Calif. Misclassification Suit Continues Even as Insurers Win Appellate Victory
Insurers and service companies won a major victory this week against lawyers who were trying to bind a group of 1,550 California property appraisers together to sue Farmers Group and Allstate ...
Cell Phones Could Still Be a Safety Issue on Some Boeing Jets
U.S. government officials in 2014 revealed an alarming safety issue: Passenger cellphones and other types of radio signals could pose a crash threat to some models of Boeing 737 and 777 airplanes. ...