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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Advocates for adult victims of childhood sexual abuse say they will ask Louisiana’s Supreme Court to reconsider a ruling that wiped out 2021 legislation giving them a renewed opportunity to file civil damage lawsuits over their …

DAVENPORT, Okla. (AP) — Authorities and work crews on Sunday continued to clean up after a train derailment in central Oklahoma overturned 22 rail cars carrying gravel but didn’t result in any injuries. The derailment occurred Saturday afternoon just east …

Systemic cyber risk is being discussed as a growing concern for insurers as technology advances and interconnectivity increases, but how is this risk defined? That may be one of its gray areas. “As you go through different owners of risk …

An American aviation executive has had British judgments worth more than $4 million against him thrown out after a judge ruled that his legal opponent had covered up its use of hackers to steal the businessman’s emails in order to …

The owner of the ship that rammed into a bridge in Baltimore last week, killing six workers and throwing the eastern US transportation network into chaos, is seeking to limit its liability to about $43.7 million. The company, Grace Ocean, …

Google said it would delete millions of records of users’ browsing activities as part of a settlement of a class-action lawsuit that alleged it tracked people without their knowledge. The case, filed in 2020, alleged the Alphabet Inc. unit surreptitiously …

A Dutch court will on Tuesday hear Shell’s appeal against a landmark climate ruling which ordered it to drastically deepen planned greenhouse gas emission cuts. The district court in The Hague in 2021 ordered the oil and gas giant to …

A person in Texas contracted bird flu, most likely after being exposed to infected dairy cows, public health officials said, as an emerging outbreak among the animals spreads in the country. The risk to the general population remains low, the …

Alliant Insurance Services, a national distributor, has named Gary Pestana managing director of Alliant Specialty, in the firm’s real estate and hospitality area. He will be based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Pestana has more than 30 years’ experience in risk …

Most fast food workers in California will be paid at least $20 an hour began Monday, when a new law kicked in giving more financial security to an historically low-paying profession while threatening to raise prices in a state already …