U.S.
Allstate Is The Latest P/C Insurer to Pursue Texas Expansion
Allstate Insurance Company said it wants to bring close to 300 additional jobs to Texas focused on both agency ownership and sales. The U.S.'s largest publicly held personal lines insurer explained ...
Apple Ordered to Pay Nearly $533M in iTunes Patent Infringement Verdict
Apple Inc has been ordered to pay $532.9 million after a federal jury in Texas found that its iTunes software infringed three patents owned by patent licensing firm Smartflash LLC. Though Smartflash ...
FBI Closes In on Anthem Data Hackers
The FBI said it's close to finding the hackers responsible for the attack on health-insurance company Anthem Inc. that exposed personal data on about 80 million customers. Federal Bureau of ...
More Digital U.S. Health Data is Increasing Medical ID Theft
Medical identity theft jumped 22 percent last year as more U.S. health data becomes electronic and easier for cyber criminals to steal from doctors' offices, hospitals and insurers. Incidents of ...
BP Wants Appeals Court To Slash Size of 2010 Gulf of Mexico Spill
BP Plc asked a federal appeals court in New Orleans to review a trial judge's ruling that 3.19 million barrels of oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico from the company's blown-out well in 2010. The ...
Goldman Sachs Risks Federal Lawsuit Over Mortgage-Backed Securities
Goldman Sachs Group Inc said it could face a federal civil lawsuit after a government probe concluded that the bank had violated laws related to sale of residential mortgage-backed securities before ...
Comparenow.com Announces Name Change
Insurance price comparison website comparenow.com has announced that it will now operate as compare.com. According to a statement, the company decided to create a simpler identity following recent ...
Large Product Liability Awards Made Comeback in 2014
Huge jury verdicts against companies over fatal flaws in their products made a comeback last year, which may foretell more bad news for carmakers with defective parts. Absent for a decade, ...