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Security Cameras in Nursing Homes Aim to Protect, but Present Ethical Dilemmas

For many people who care for aging parents, one solution is a safe, responsible nursing home. But an increasingly common means of ensuring that safety — security cameras installed by relatives — may do more harm than good, says Clara …

Uber’s Arbitration Addiction Could Be Death by 60,000 Cuts

For Uber Technologies Inc., using legal arbitration to deal with driver compensation complaints — over anything from pay to overtime to mileage reimbursement — seemed like the smart play: it would preclude costly class-action litigation, it was private, and few …

Boeing Vows ‘Transparency’ to 737 Max Buyers in New Outreach

Boeing Co. met with 737 Max operators and lessors in Amsterdam on Tuesday, the first of about six sessions planned around the world as the planemaker lays the groundwork for resuming commercial flights of the aircraft following two deadly crashes. …

IBM-Backed Project Creates Wi-Fi Network For Natural Disasters

About the photo: Hardware from Project OWL, an IoT software solution that keeps first responders and victims connected in a natural disaster, at their work space in Brooklyn, New York on May 2, 2019. Photographer David Williams/Bloomberg. From a cramped …

Bernard Madoff’s Wife Ruth Settles with Court-Appointed Trustee

NEW YORK — Ruth Madoff, the wife of imprisoned swindler Bernard Madoff, agreed to pay $594,000 and surrender her remaining assets when she dies to settle claims by the court-appointed trustee liquidating her husband’s firm. According to settlement papers, Ruth …

J&J Said to Pay About $1 Billion to Settle Metal-Hip Suits

Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay about $1 billion to resolve most lawsuits claiming it sold defective metal-on-metal hips that ultimately had to be removed, according to people with knowledge of the matter. With the agreement, J&J has now resolved …

Purdue’s Sackler Allegedly Called Opioid Addicts ‘Victimizers’

Purdue Pharma LP’s former chief executive officer appeared to blame victims of opioid abuse for their suffering in a 2001 email to an acquaintance, a court filing shows. “Abusers aren’t victims; they are the victimizers,” Richard Sackler said in the …

Boeing Max Failed to Apply Safety Lesson From Deadly 2009 Crash

A fatal airplane crash a decade ago prompted a life-saving fix across thousands of Boeing 737 cockpits. So why wasn’t the same lesson applied to the design of the 737 Max, an upgraded version on which 346 people died in …

P&C Reserves Improved Last Year, Pushed by Workers’ Comp

Separate reports by financial analysts concluded that property and casualty carriers improved the condition of their claim reserves in 2018, in large part because of favorable loss development in the workers’ compensation line. Keefe, Bruyette & Woods reported that property …

Families Defrauded by Unregulated Service Dog Trainers

About the photo: This photo shows Mark Mathis, owner of Ry-Con Service Dogs, during a training session with Ella Peluso and her service dog, Puzzle 2. It was taken May 23, 2018, at Ry-Con’s former facilities in Raleigh, N.C. APEX, …

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