Insurance

Over the past five years, the attorney general’s office, with Aaron Frey at the helm, has secured for Maine more than $260 million in settlements with major pharmaceutical companies accused of “supercharging” the opioid epidemic. It has overseen the settlements’ …

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is co-leading financing for a Texas project to build private power campuses for artificial intelligence. The New York banking giant is working with real estate advisory Newmark Group Inc. to raise both equity and credit for …

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a $1.25 million settlement with Hyatt Corporation for violating Texas consumer protection laws by marketing hotel rooms at prices that were not available to the public as advertised. Paxton’s lawsuit against the company alleged …

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel sent a reminder to residents to watch out for post-storm scams after a winter storm brought frigid air and more than two feet of snow to much of the state. To avoid falling victim to …

Wendy’s International, LLC violated federal law when it discriminated against a district manager because of disability and age, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced. According to the lawsuit, Wendy’s International, LLC, which owns and …

A wide net cast by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the FBI has landed its final catch—prison time for the last of six Kentucky farmers and a warehouse manager found guilty of a long-running tobacco crop-insurance fraud scheme. Larry …

Target Corp., Whole Foods Market and Walmart Inc. will be added as defendants in lawsuits against baby formula maker ByHeart for selling a product potentially contaminated with spores that cause infant botulism. Bill Marler, a prominent foodborne-illness attorney who is …

Brown University placed its campus police chief on administrative leave and the Trump administration announced an investigation into the school’s security measures after a shooting rampage this month that killed two students and injured nine others. The Education Department’s Office …

Zurich Insurance Group has launched Zurich Program IQ to help multinational businesses operate with confidence in an increasingly complex risk environment. This new AI-powered tool has been designed to further enhance contract certainty of multinational insurance programs across multiple regions, …

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum deferred questions on Tuesday about the record of a passenger train that derailed over the weekend, killing 13 people and injuring 98 others, the latest in a series of accidents that have put pressure on her …