Full content: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has secured a $108 million settlement with Monsanto Company (PDF), the major manufacturer of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and affiliated companies Solutia Inc. and Pharmacia LLC to address harms from PCB contamination in the State of …

Full content: California-headquartered Inszone Insurance Services has continued its hot streak of acquisitions with the purchase of Coastal Insurance Services in Florida and affiliated Optimal Insurance Solutions. The acquisition marks Inszone’s first step into the Florida market, the company said in a …

Full content: An investigation began Friday into what caused a small plane to crash into a house in northeast Ohio and explode into flames, killing both pilots aboard. The National Transportation Safety Board was leading the review in Akron, alongside the Federal …

Full content: Hatch Trick, Inc., a Chick-fil-A franchisee operating multiple locations in Austin, Texas violated federal law by refusing to reasonably accommodate an employee’s request to refrain from working on Saturdays in observance of her Sabbath day and instead fired her, the …

Full content: A prominent Miami real estate developer who once hired the city’s mayor as a $10,000-a-month consultant has pleaded guilty to money laundering and payroll-tax charges in a $89 million fraud scheme. Rishi Kapoor, who once led Location Ventures and URBIN …

Full content: In less than three minutes, an intruder exploited a security gap at one of the nation’s busiest airports and stepped into the path of an airplane hurtling down a Colorado runway with 231 people aboard. The 41-year-old man slipped unnoticed …

Full content: More than 34,000 homes and businesses remain without power across PG&E Corp.’s service area after a weekend outage due in part to dry and windy conditions that raised the risk of wild fires. There were 659 outages impacting 34,322 customers …

Full content: The Justice Department last Thursday accused Yale University of illegally considering race in admissions to its medical school — the second institution to face discrimination allegations by the federal agency this month. In a letter to a lawyer for Yale, …

Full content: A rare Ebola outbreak that may have circulated undetected in northeastern Congo for several weeks is exposing the difficulty of detecting deadly viruses in regions where malaria, typhoid and other fever-causing illnesses are common and health systems are stretched thin. …

Full content: EY UK has paid more than £100 million ($133 million) to the administrators of NMC Health Plc to settle claims it was negligent in its audits of the failed firm, according to people familiar with the matter. NMC sued EY …

Full content: British companies should take steps to plan for and mitigate risks from new artificial intelligence models, the country’s finance ministry, the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority regulator said on Friday. “The cyber capabilities of current frontier AI …

Full content: Amazon.com Inc was sued on Friday by consumers seeking refunds for costs passed on to them in the form of higher prices as a result of tariffs the U.S. Supreme Court later concluded had been unlawfully imposed by President Donald …

Full content: Artificial Appoints Joost as President Leading US Expansion Artificial Labs (Artificial), headquartered in London, appointed Eric Joost as president, leading its U.S. expansion. Joost joins Artificial’s leadership team, supporting the overall business. He will be responsible for shaping the company’s …

Full content: California’s workers’ compensation system continues to experience moderate but persistent cost growth due to wage increases, labor market conditions, rising medical expenses and system complexity. Payments per claim in California’s workers’ comp system have risen steadily since 2021, according to …