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U.S. Accuses Visa of Monopolizing Debit Card Swipes

The U.S. Department of Justice sued Visa for alleged antitrust violations on Tuesday, accusing one of the world’s largest payment networks of suppressing competition by threatening merchants with high fees and paying off potential rivals. Visa processes more than 60% …

Ex-Twitter Worker Wins Musk Layoff Pay Fight, Memo Says

Elon Musk lost a legal fight over unpaid severance to a former Twitter employee who was laid off when he took over the social media platform in 2022, according to a memo obtained by Bloomberg News. The resolution of the …

Insurance Czar Has ‘Harsh’ Message About Climate: You May Just Have to Move

The soaring cost and difficulty of insuring against climate risks may force people to relocate, the head of Canada’s main financial regulator warned. Rising damages from extreme weather don’t seem to be a regulatory problem, but rather a cost problem, …

Toyota Cheated on Forklift Engine Emissions, U.S. Lawsuit Claims

Toyota has been sued in a proposed U.S. class action accusing the Japanese automaker of emissions cheating in nine engines for its forklift trucks. A complaint was filed by forklift purchasers on Sunday night in San Francisco federal court against …

Vanguard, AllianceBernstein Sue Over Sports Park That Failed

Municipal bond funds that lost more than $200 million after a sprawling Arizona sports complex collapsed into bankruptcy sued the investment bank that underwrote the debt for the project and the father-and-son team that developed and managed it. The Vanguard …

California Sues Exxon Over Global Plastic Pollution

California and several environmental groups sued Exxon Mobil on Monday and accused the oil giant of engaging in a decades-long campaign that helped fuel global plastic waste pollution. Speaking at an event during Climate Week in New York City, California …

Purdue Settlement Talks With Sacklers Extended to November

Purdue Pharma LP said its making progress in settlement talks with members of the Sackler family who own the company and won another extension of a breathing spell that’s shielded the family from civil lawsuits for years. Judge Sean Lane …

Snowflake Hacker Still Active, Finding New Victims, Expert Says

A hacker responsible for a cybercrime campaign that impacted up to 165 companies this summer is still at large and recently broke into a “handful” of new organizations, according to a cybersecurity specialist at Alphabet Inc.’s Google. The attacker, who …

AccuWeather Says Storm Expected to Hit Gulf Coast to Become Category 3 Hurricane

A weather service said a brewing storm headed toward the Gulf Coast is expected to become “a large hurricane with a major storm surge threat and impacts that will reach hundreds of miles inland from where this storm makes landfall.” …

Survey Shows Most Actuaries and Underwriters Worry About Being Replaced by AI

With the vast majority (91%) of insurance companies already investing in AI or planning to in the next five years, it’s not surprising that nearly seven-in-10 actuaries and underwriters are worried about being replaced by artificial intelligence, according to a …

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