Posts by Y@DminG

While the insurance industry is quickly adopting AI technologies to improve the speed and accuracy of routine functions, analyze data and assess risk, malicious actors use the same tech to disrupt business and profit from cyberattacks. Recognizing the potential exposure … Source: Claims Journal

Netflix won the dismissal on Tuesday of a shareholder lawsuit accusing the streaming company of downplaying the impact on subscriber growth of account sharing, where paying members share user names and passwords with nonpaying members in other households. The proposed … Source: Claims Journal

Prince Harry and other high-profile British figures’ privacy lawsuits against the Daily Mail newspaper’s publisher will go to trial in early 2026, London’s High Court heard on Tuesday, with the parties’ legal costs set to exceed 38 million pounds ($47.8 … Source: Claims Journal

A new study published in Science Advances suggests an increase in the variability of Atlantic tropical cyclone activity, leading to more active and inactive hurricane seasons and less near-normal seasons, according NOAA and partner researchers. The study investigates how the … Source: Claims Journal

UPS will pay $45 million to settle charges that it improperly valued its freight division, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced. The regulator agency said that UPS materially misrepresented its earnings because it failed to follow generally accepted accounting principles … Source: Claims Journal

Starbucks Corp. said a ransomware attack at a third-party software supplier has disrupted its system for tracking employee schedules, forcing the coffee giant to manually tally workers’ hours and pay. Blue Yonder Group Inc., a Panasonic subsidiary that provides supply … Source: Claims Journal

Walt Disney agreed to pay $43.3 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that its female employees in California earned $150 million less than their male counterparts over an eight-year period, the plaintiffs’ lawyers said in a statement on Monday. As … Source: Claims Journal

Starbucks said the aftermath of a ransomware attack on a software supplier has been affecting its ability to pay baristas and manage their schedules, the company’s spokesperson said on Monday. The coffee giant said that an outage at a third-party … Source: Claims Journal

Two auto insurers will pay fines totaling $11.3 million for data breaches of online insurance quoting systems that New York officials say compromised personal information of an estimated 120,000 customers in total. New York Attorney General Letitia James and New … Source: Claims Journal

A federal jury in Marshall, Texas, on Friday awarded computer memory company Netlist $118 million in damages from Samsung Electronics in a patent lawsuit over technology for improving data processing in high-performance memory products. The verdict follows a $303 million … Source: Claims Journal