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US Marshals Computer System Hit by Ransomware Attack
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a major breach of a U.S. Marshals Service computer system this month with ransomware, hackers stole sensitive and personally identifiable data about agency employees and targets of investigations, an agency spokesman said Tuesday. The hacked system … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreGreek Stationmaster Arrested After Crash Kills at Least 36
TEMPE, Greece (AP) — The stationmaster in the city of Larissa was arrested, Greek police said Wednesday, following a head-on collision between a passenger train and a freight train outside a nearby town that flattened carriages, killed at least 36 … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreDelaware Court Dismisses Shareholder Suit over McDonald’s Sexual Harassment Policies
A Delaware Court on Wednesday dismissed a shareholder lawsuit filed against McDonald’s Corp. and its board of directors, finding the plaintiffs did not show that the directors ignored red flags that demonstrated widespread sexual harassment was taking place. Court of … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreFederal Court Denies Massachusetts Hospital’s Covid-19 Business Interruption Claim
A Massachusetts hospital has been denied its insurance claim for Covid-19 related costs and lost revenues under business interruption and disease contamination provisions of its property insurance policies. U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton of the federal court in Boston … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreFla. Tort Reform Bill Aims to Pick Up Where Lawmakers Left Off
Outside of insurance attorneys, plaintiffs’ lawyers and some doctors, few people in Florida may be familiar with what are known as letters of protection. But critics say the instruments, in which doctors agree to take a share of the judgment … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreBangladesh Owner to Get $22.48M After Ship Explosion in Ukraine
Insurers are about to pay state-owned Bangladesh Shipping Corp. (BSC) $22.48 million for its vessel that was hit by a missile during fighting in Ukraine, two officials involved said on Tuesday. The expected settlement is one of the first shipping … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreHow Officials Cracked Case of Eyedrops that Blinded People
NEW YORK (AP) — The patients’ eyes were painfully inflamed. They could sense light but could see almost nothing else. A doctor called one case the worst eye infection he’d ever seen. It was the beginning of a national outbreak … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreJudge Upholds Acquittal in 9 Hurricane Nursing Home Deaths
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) – A Florida judge rejected a prosecutor’s impassioned plea Monday, saying he would not reconsider his acquittal of a nursing home administrator in the overheating deaths of nine patients after Hurricane Irma knocked out the facility’s … Source: Claims Journal
Read MorePolice: Arizona Crash that Killed Two Cyclists Likely Accident
GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AP) — The crash of a truck into a group of 20 bicyclists on a bridge that killed two and injured nearly all the rest of a Phoenix area cycling group appears to have been an accident, police … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreDam Owner Guilty in Field Turf Pollution of Washington River
SEATTLE (AP) — A company that operates a century-old hydroelectric dam near Mount Rainier National Park and its chief operating officer each pleaded guilty to a single criminal count Monday in connection with a spill of synthetic field turf and … Source: Claims Journal
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