Paddle.com Market, a U.K.-based payment processor, and its subsidiary, Paddle.com, Inc., will pay $5 million and be permanently banned from processing payments for tech-support telemarketers, said the Federal Trade Commission this week. The FTC alleged that Paddle abused the U.S. …
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A Boston jury has awarded $8 million to a Massachusetts woman who developed mesothelioma after years of using Johnson & Johnson’s talcum powder products. The jury found the pharmaceutical giant liable for negligence and breach of warranty, concluding that the …
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Navitas Systems, LLC, an Ann Arbor, Michigan battery manufacturer, will pay $95,000 and furnish other relief to resolve a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced. According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Navitas …
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Howden Acquires Chilean Retail Insurance Broker Howden, the London-based insurance intermediary group, announced it has acquired Ureta & Fernandez Corredores de Seguros Limitada (U&F), an independent retail insurance broker headquartered in Santiago, Chile. Following completion of the acquisition, Felipe Ureta …
Central and southern China were on high alert for more flash floods on Friday as the annual East Asia monsoon gathered pace and extreme rainfall threatened disruption in the world’s second-largest economy. Red alerts, the first for this year, were …
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Rio Tinto agreed to pay $138.75 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the Anglo-Australian mining giant of defrauding investors by concealing problems with its $7 billion underground expansion of the Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine in Mongolia. A …
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Iran is tapping into private security cameras in Israel to gather real-time intelligence about its adversary, exposing a recurrent problem with the devices that has emerged in other global conflicts. Earlier this week, after Iranian ballistic missiles tore through high-rise …
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To the untrained eye, the red shipping container at Felixstowe looked no different to the thousands of others stacked up at Britain’s busiest seaport. Destined for Africa, its contents were listed as “household goods,” but to police officer Adam Gibson, …
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The Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission announced that it voted this spring to reduce the Multiple Injury Trust Fund assessment on workers’ compensation coverage providers from 7% to 6.29%. This is the first reduction in five years, the WCC said. The …
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Toyota Motors Corp. has brought a lawsuit for 6.5 billion rand ($361 million) in a South African court for 2022 flood damages that shuttered its plant near Durban, Business Day reported. The claim against Transnet SOC Ltd., the KwaZulu-Natal Department …
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