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Researchers Say New FEMA Flood Maps Underestimate Flood Risk
Researchers have used artificial intelligence to predict where flood damage is likely to happen in the continental United States. The findings suggest that recent flood maps from the Federal ...
APCIA Joins Group Pushing for Reforms on Litigation Funding
A new advocate group in New York that counts the American Property Casualty Insurance Association (APCIA) as a member is looking to crack down on the practice of litigation funding. The Consumers for ...
Colorado Wildfire Victims Hit ‘Green’ Building Code Hurdle
Some homeowners recovering from Colorado's most destructive wildfire in history, which decimated entire neighborhoods near Denver late last year, say they could end up paying tens of thousands of ...
TikTok Facing Probe Over How Platform Markets to Kids
ByteDance Ltd.'s TikTok is being targeted by a group of states seeking to determine whether the social media platform is being improperly marketed to children. The states are investigating how TikTok ...
Biden’s Supreme Court Nominee Defies Expectations on Employer-Employee Cases
Labor unions and worker advocates have applauded President Joe Biden's nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court. Yet a look back at Jackson's decisions in cases involving ...
EPA Power to Curb Carbon Emissions Questioned by Supreme Court
Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared skeptical of the federal government's authority to issue sweeping regulations to reduce carbon emissions from power plants in a case that ...
Supreme Court Asked to Resolve Federal Drug Law vs. State Medical Marijuana Laws Debate
The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to address whether federal drug law that criminalizes possession of marijuana invalidates state orders requiring employers and their workers compensation ...
U.S. Drug Distributors, J&J Move to Finalize $26B Opioid Settlement
The three largest U.S. drug distributors and drugmaker Johnson & Johnson have agreed to finalize a proposed $26 billion settlement resolving claims by states and local governments that they ...