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New York City is suing a Manhattan law firm for allegedly running a multimillion dollar personal injury fraud scheme by filing as many as 15 injury claims against the city on behalf of people allegedly harmed due to roadway defects. … Source: Claims Journal

The judge in Apple Inc.’s high-stakes trade-secret theft case against OpenAI said he’s “highly likely” to grant the iPhone maker an injunction barring use of its proprietary information by former employees now at the artificial intelligence startup. U.S. District Judge … Source: Claims Journal

More than 345,000 homes and businesses across California are facing potential power cuts this week during what’s expected to be a days-long onslaught of dangerous fire weather conditions. With drying winds forecast to blow through much of the state through … Source: Claims Journal

The U.S. Department of Justice began a third phase of compensation for victims of Western Union fraud. An additional $3.4 million is being distributed to 1,294 victims, and the department has reopened the petition process for victims who did not … Source: Claims Journal

Lots of trees and fences were down with some roof damage to homes, businesses and vehicles, as well as flooding and tornadoes in parts of western North Carolina. But overall, the insured losses from Hurricane Isaias, which made landfall in … Source: Claims Journal

The dispute arose while hundreds of Apple employees defected to OpenAI and has put a cloud over the startup as it targets a $1.4 trillion valuation and prepares to go public. Source: Claims Journal

A Florida man who held himself out as a cyberattack solutions expert paid off the attackers while keeping much larger sums for himself—creating a piggy-back type of cyber fraud scheme, a grand jury said in an indictment. Zohar Pinhasi, the … Source: Claims Journal

The London Bullion Market Association’s certification program served as a “thick smokescreen” that enabled serious abuses at a Tanzanian gold mine where two men died, lawyers alleged at the start of a London trial that could threaten its existence. The … Source: Claims Journal

A Louisiana property insurer receives a contractor’s estimate for far more than it paid after a hurricane. Sixty days pass. The insured files suit and seeks bad faith penalties. Did the estimate start the cure period under Louisiana’s Act 3? … Source: Claims Journal

CVS Health has agreed to pay $315 million to resolve allegations that the pharmacy chain operator unlawfully filled medically unnecessary prescriptions for addictive opioid painkillers, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday. The settlement resolves a case that the department … Source: Claims Journal