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An American tourist was killed and his wife hospitalized after being electrocuted in a hot tub in a Mexican beach town earlier this week, an incident that prompted the family to sue the resort for wrongful death and negligence, their … Source: Claims Journal

A bill that would give a presumption of compensability to farmworker heat-related injury claims if an employer is found to be out of compliance with Cal/OSHA’s outdoor heat illness prevention standard would likely create more challenges than it would solve, … Source: Claims Journal

After holding relatively steady for nearly a decade, the number of business liability policy claims cases jumped 28% in 2023, according to a litigation report from Lex Machina. The report found that 3,596 business liability cases covering third-party claims regarding … Source: Claims Journal

A crypto exchange that was accused of lying to hundreds of thousands of customers about the risks tied to a failed investment program agreed to return $50 million of digital assets to resolve a suit by New York Attorney General … Source: Claims Journal

Escalating threats on multiple fronts are creating a ‘polycrisis’ of risk, with increased economic volatility, geopolitical upheaval and the disruptive force of AI driving the corporate threat level to its highest in 12 years, a new report shows. A survey … Source: Claims Journal

A group of London hospitals struggling to contain the fallout from a cyberattack against a critical supplier had known for years about weaknesses that left them vulnerable to hacks, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg News. The Guy’s and St … Source: Claims Journal

A retired south Florida fire captain has been arrested for insurance fraud, charged with vastly overstating the number of nights he was forced to stay in a resort hotel while his home was under repair. Florida’s chief financial officer said … Source: Claims Journal

The hurricane season continues to look like it will be a highly active one, as a potent and portentous weather pattern continues to take shape, an AccuWeather meteorologist told Claims Journal on Friday. “It certainly looks like it’s going to … Source: Claims Journal

Banana giant Chiquita Brands must pay $38.3 million to 16 family members of people killed during Colombia’s long civil war by a violent right-wing paramilitary group funded by the company, a federal jury in Florida decided. The verdict Monday by … Source: Claims Journal

Snowflake Inc. plans to close its own investigation this week into a hacking campaign that ensnared as many as 165 of its customers. The cloud data and analytics company hasn’t detected any unauthorized access into customer accounts since early last … Source: Claims Journal