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In the coming weeks, investors in nine public companies worth at least $1 billion each will vote on proposals to ditch Delaware as their place of incorporation, potentially denting the state’s longtime reputation as Corporate America’s capital, Reuters has found. …

Paul Roberts joined Alliant Insurance Services, headquartered in Irvine, California, as senior vice president within its employee benefits group. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, the consultant has expertise in employee benefits, risk management and retirement consulting to service a diverse national …

Capital One was sued on Wednesday by New York Attorney General Letitia James, who accused the bank of cheating depositors with its flagship “high interest” savings accounts out of millions of dollars in interest. The lawsuit followed the U.S. Consumer …

Alphabet’s Waymo is recalling more than 1,200 self-driving vehicles to update software and address risks of collisions with chains, gates and other roadway barriers after U.S. auto safety investigators opened a probe last year. The recall affects 1,212 Waymo vehicles …

Written premiums in California stabilized in 2022 through 2024 after the large swings during the pandemic, while the combined ratio rose to the highest level in 14 years, a new report shows. The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California …

German Insurtech wefox has agreed to sell its Italian businesses, wefox MGA S.r.l. and wefox Services Italy S.r.l., to U.S. private equity firm J.C. Flowers & Co. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 2015, wefox has …

Missouri’s attorney general sued a natural gas company Monday over the explosion of a home in a small town that killed a 5-year-old boy, accusing the utility of violating a state safety law. Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s lawsuit came less …

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton last week announced a judgment of more than $60 million against David Polston and his companies, Inland Environmental and Remediation, Inland Recycling, and Boundary Ventures, for allegedly dumping pollutants in Texas waterways and lands. In …

A Michigan county has settled a lawsuit over an elected official who flashed a rifle during a COVID-19-era public meeting on Zoom. Patricia MacIntosh accused Ron Clous of trying to silence her right to free speech when he displayed the …

A bill aimed at limiting the spread of toxic chemicals on Texas farmland has hit a political wall — missing a key deadline that decreases its likelihood of passage this session. House Bill 1674, introduced by Rep. Helen Kerwin, R-Cleburne, …