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Google’s payments to make its search engine the default option on smartphone web browsers violate U.S. antitrust law, a federal judge ruled Monday, handing a key victory to the Justice Department. Judge Amit Mehta in Washington said that the Alphabet … Source: Claims Journal

Novartis and Viatris were hit with a federal lawsuit in Maryland on Monday by the family of a woman whose tissue cells were taken from her body in the 1950s and used to fuel medical research and development. The estate … Source: Claims Journal

CrowdStrike on Sunday rejected a claim by Delta Air Lines that it should be blamed for flight disruptions following a July 19 global outage sparked by a faulty update, and suggested it had minimal potential liability. Delta CEO Ed Bastian … Source: Claims Journal

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Monday it was seeking more information about an accident involving Tesla’s Cybertruck from the electric vehicle maker. The driver of the electric pickup truck was declared dead as a result of the … Source: Claims Journal

A survey of nearly 1,000 IT and security professionals shows numerous organizations were targeted by ransomware attacks in the past year with a high degree of success, with most paying a ransom—many of which paid multiple times. Semperis, a cyber … Source: Claims Journal

A Connecticut clinical social worker believes her homeowners insurer should defend and indemnify her against claims she violated patients’ privacy by accessing and sharing their private medical information. She says the lawsuit against her triggers her homeowners coverage because the … Source: Claims Journal

Hurricane Debby threatens to unleash days of heavy rain and flooding on the US East Coast after slamming into Florida near Tallahassee, knocking out power to thousands. As much as 12 inches (30 centimeters) will fall across a wide area … Source: Claims Journal

Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. has agreed to pay almost $2 billion as part of a $4 billion settlement to resolve hundreds of lawsuits over wildfires in Maui that killed dozens of people and destroyed the historic town of Lahaina last … Source: Claims Journal

The recent outage on Microsoft Corp.’s cloud-computer platform demonstrated the persistence of an older, blunt-force style of cyberattack. It’s called a distributed denial-of-service attack, DDoS for short, and it works by directing massive amounts of junk internet traffic at a … Source: Claims Journal

The vast majority of damages from last month’s CrowdStrike Holdings Inc.’s global IT outage will go uninsured, according to new estimates from Guy Carpenter and CyberCube Analytics Inc. The days-long cyberincident — which grounded planes, shuttered businesses and stopped markets … Source: Claims Journal