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Cryptocurrency Exchange Giant Reports Hack Attack
Binance, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, said hackers withdrew 7,000 bitcoins worth about $40 million via a single transaction in a "large scale security breach," the latest in a ...
Zurich Insurance Said It Will Meet or Beat Its 2019 Financial Targets
Zurich Insurance is on track to meet or beat its financial targets to 2019 and is seeing positive trends in property and casualty (P&C) insurance pricing. Europe's fifth-biggest insurer made the ...
Design Flaws in ‘Smart Home’ Devices Threaten Sense of Security They Bring
Researchers at North Carolina State University have identified design flaws in "smart home" Internet-of-Things devices that allow third parties to prevent devices from sharing information. The flaws ...
J&J Reportedly Will Fork Over $1B to Resolve Most Metal-Hip Suits
Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay about $1 billion to resolve most lawsuits claiming it sold defective metal-on-metal hips that ultimately had to be removed, according to people with knowledge of ...
Lawsuits Accuse Two U.S. Solar Firms of Workplace Racism
Two residential solar companies have now been accused in separate lawsuits of discriminating against African American employees in warehouses. Six former employees of New Jersey-based Momentum Solar ...
AIG’s Duperreault Promises a Full Year of General Insurance Underwriting Profit, Catastrophes or Not
American International Group President and CEO Brian Duperreault insists that the insurer's General Insurance unit will generate an underwriting profit through all of 2019. During the insurer's May 7 ...
Nationwide, Ryan Specialty Form New Bermuda Reinsurer
Ryan Specialty Group (RSG) and Nationwide announced they have formed a new Bermuda reinsurance company, Geneva Re Ltd. Columbus, Ohio-headquartered Nationwide will own 50 percent of the venture with ...
Judge Approves $307.5M Fiat Chrysler Diesel Emissions Settlement
A federal judge in San Francisco on Friday approved a $307.5 million civil settlement for about 100,000 U.S. owners of Fiat Chrysler diesel vehicles that the government said had illegal software that ...