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Harassment Probe Leads Uber to Fire 20 Employees
Uber Technologies Inc said on Tuesday it fired 20 employees and was improving management training following an investigation by a law firm into sexual harassment allegations and other claims at the ...
Trump Administration Will Unveil Revised Self-Driving Rules Later This Year
President Donald Trump's administration will unveil revised self-driving guidelines within the next few months, the head of the U.S. Transportation Department said on Monday, responding to ...
7,000 Farmers Suing Syngenta in GMO Corn Dispute About to Get Day in Court
Farmers have to deal with threats to their crops from nature all the time. Thousands of Kansans, though, argue that Syngenta AG posed an even bigger threat by failing to prevent its genetically ...
Liability Insurance Law Restatement Approval Delayed: What It Means
It had been expected by many that after seven years of arduous work, the American Law Institute's "Restatement of the Law, Liability Insurance" would be approved late last month at the Institute's ...
Cyber Attacks From Governments or Criminals Are Hard to Distinguish
Veteran espionage researcher Jon DiMaggio was hot on the trail three months ago of what on the face of it looked like a menacing new industrial espionage attack by Russian cyber spies. All the ...
Local Government Lawsuits Over Marketing of Opioid Painkillers Face Uphill Battle
A growing number of U.S. states, counties and cities are filing lawsuits accusing drug companies of deceptively marketing opioid painkillers to downplay their addictiveness, but some lawyers say the ...
The Downward Trend Continues for U.S. Commercial Auto Insurance Losses
U.S. commercial auto insurance losses have already been high for some time. They grew even worse, in 2016, hitting depths the sector hasn't seen in 15 years. A primary bellwether: the commercial auto ...
A Stormier-Than-Usual Atlantic Hurricane Season Is Possible as El Nino Odds Dissipate
The Atlantic hurricane season will likely churn out an above-average 11 to 17 named storms, in part due to fading odds than an El Nino will form in the Pacific. Of storms that emerge during the ...