Posts by Y@DminG
Hospital Insurer Files for Bankruptcy, Citing Child Sex Abuse Claims
A Bermuda captive that insured several New York hospitals affiliated with a leading Jewish not-for-profit organization says it is insolvent, citing millions of dollars in child sex abuse claims brought against it under the state’s Child Victims Act (CVA). Northeast … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreWaymo Robotaxis Probed Over Safety Around School Buses
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Monday it has opened a preliminary probe into about 2,000 Waymo self-driving vehicles after reports that the company’s robotaxis may have failed to follow traffic safety laws around stopped school buses. … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreAmazon’s AWS Struggles to Recover After Major Outage Disrupts Apps, Services Worldwide
Amazon’s cloud services unit AWS was struggling to recover on Monday from a widespread outage that knocked out thousands of websites along with some of the world’s most popular apps – Snapchat and Reddit – and disrupted businesses globally. The … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreHackers Had Been Lurking in Cyber Firm F5 Systems Since 2023
The state-backed hackers who breached cybersecurity company F5 Inc. broke in beginning in late 2023 and lurked in the company’s systems until being discovered in August of this year, according to people who were briefed by F5 about the incident. … Source: Claims Journal
Read More‘Massive Legal Siege’ Against Social Media Companies Looms
Thousands of plaintiffs’ complaints, millions of pages of internal documents and transcripts of countless hours of depositions are about to land in U.S. courtrooms, threatening the future of the biggest social media companies. The blizzard of paperwork is a byproduct … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreLA County Reaches New $828 Million Deal With Abuse Victims
Los Angeles County reached a tentative agreement to pay an additional $828 million to victims of childhood sexual abuse who filed lawsuits under a 2019 state law that raised the statute of limitations for such cases. The settlement addresses 400 … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreAuto Value Professionals Expanding to Georgia, North Carolina and Illinois
Auto Value Professionals plans to expand into Georgia, North Carolina and Illinois. The company says the reason for the expansion is to answer the rising demand for professional automotive appraisal services.. Auto Value Professionals has its corporate headquarters in San … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreCan a More Unified Front Be Formed Against Legal System Abuse?
To tell the public what it spends on insurance—an amount largely effected by what it calls legal system abuse—Uber has started to provide information on customers’ receipts. “To give you a sense of how bad the problem has gotten in … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreTesla’s European Regulator Making Door Safety a ‘Key Priority’
Tesla Inc.’s safety regulators in Europe are joining an expanding global effort to more closely scrutinize the door handle design popularized by the world’s leading electric vehicle manufacturer. The Dutch authority RDW, which inspects and approves Tesla’s vehicles for sale … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreFord Recalling 625K US Vehicles Over Camera Display, Seatbelt Issues
Ford is recalling nearly 625,000 vehicles in the U.S. due to seatbelt and rear-view camera display problems, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Friday. The seatbelt recall affects 332,778 Ford Mustang vehicles, while the camera display issue … Source: Claims Journal
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