The Trump administration’s move to gut the agency tasked with ensuring workplace safety is facing intensifying pushback, including from the nation’s largest auto union and a conservative lawmaker, in one of the more prominent public fights against some of the … Source: Claims Journal

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing could face a penalty of $1 billion or more to settle a U.S. export control investigation over a chip it made that ended up inside a Huawei AI processor, according to two people familiar with the matter. … Source: Claims Journal

Irish authorities warned that warm and dry conditions, combined with dead vegetation, pose a high risk of wildfires across the country this week. Ireland’s Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has issued an orange alert through April 14, saying … Source: Claims Journal

With the Los Angeles fires in January and last week’s severe storms that brought flooding and tornadoes to the Midwest, extreme weather is already battering U.S. homes in 2025. Homeowners should expect their insurance rates to jump accordingly, says Insurify, … Source: Claims Journal

Boeing Co. settled lawsuits with the families of two victims killed in the March 2019 crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX on the eve of trial, lawyers for the families said. The trial in the U.S. District Court … Source: Claims Journal

Los Angeles County has reached a $4 billion agreement to settle nearly 7,000 claims of sexual abuse in juvenile facilities since 1959, officials said. The agreement, which still needs approval from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, far surpasses … Source: Claims Journal

Some customer information from Singapore’s DBS Group and Bank of China’s branch in the country has potentially been compromised after a ransomware attack on their data vendor Toppan Next Tech (TNT). DBS said on Monday customer statements of around 8,200 … Source: Claims Journal

Bayer said it was again petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to sharply limit legal claims that its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, seeking to avoid potentially billions of dollars in damages. Bayer said in its petition that consumers should not be … Source: Claims Journal

A multiday severe weather outbreak in the central U.S. caused an estimated $80 billion to $90 billion in total damage and economic loss, according to a preliminary estimate from AccuWeather. From April 2 to April 6, a rare weather system … Source: Claims Journal

As Los Angeles residents digested the apocalyptic scene left by wildfires earlier this year, the stage was simultaneously being set for hedge funds to pursue market-beating returns fanned by climate change. The investment model in question is built around so-called … Source: Claims Journal