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The claimants, some of whom said they had lost tens of thousands of pounds, allege Binance entities knowingly sold investments such as leveraged products, which can amplify gains or losses, from late 2019 and promoted them in breach of the Financial Services and Markets Act. Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, vowed to defend itself but declined to comment further on ongoing litigation. “Binance remains committed to its obligations to users and to operating in accordance with applicable law,” a spokesperson said. The London High Court case is being brought against Cayman Islands-registered Binance Holdings, UAE-registered Nest Exchange, Zhao —…

Extreme weather events — such as the heat wave gripping Europe — are making a growing number of assets too risky to insure, according to a director at Europe’s largest primary insurer. “Certain locations and perils cannot be covered as we would wish them to be covered,” Günther Thallinger, who sits on the management board of Allianz SE, said in an interview. “We cannot help it.” Heat, floods, storms and wildfires “could become so frequent that they challenge traditional insurance models,” he said. “Risk-adequate pricing would not be affordable any longer.” Read more: London Faces Huge Financial Cost Because of…

Camp Mystic, the Texas girls camp where 28 people were killed in flash floods last summer, will use its bankruptcy case to resolve wrongful death claims filed against the family-owned company. “We acknowledge the pain and suffering and anguish,” caused by the deaths, Martin Sosland, a lawyer for Camp Mystic, said during a bankruptcy court hearing on Tuesday. The goal of the Chapter 11 filing is to equitably resolve financial claims against the camp, including those filed by the families of the girls who died, he said. Jason Brookner, a lawyer representing a group of two dozen families, called the…

California launched a tool designed to serve as an “early warning system” for widespread AI-driven job loss. The tool, called the California AI-Unemployment Tracker, links multiple measures of an occupation’s AI exposure to the state’s monthly unemployment insurance claims data to monitor for signs of labor market disruption in real time. The tracker was built as a partnership between the office of California Governor Gavin Newsom, the state’s Employment Development Department and the California Policy Lab, a research institute at the University of California. Related: Clyde & Co Survey Shows Rapid Escalation of AI, Geopolitical Risks The announcement comes as…

World Insurance Associates LLC reports that it acquired the business of Clarke Insurance Inc. of Mount Holly, New. Jersey on March 1, 2026. Clarke Insurance was founded in 1979. The agency provides auto, home, business and employee benefits insurance throughout New Jersey. The agency has a dedicated bond department. Lawrence Clarke is the owner. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. World Insurance, based in Iselin, New Jersey, is ranked #14 on Insurance Journal’s Top 100 Independent Property/Casualty Insurance Agencies list. The agency serves clients from more than 250 offices across the U.S. and U.K. Topics Mergers & Acquisitions New…

Airbnb must face a lawsuit by the city of Los Angeles, which accused the home rental company of price gouging during the January 2025 wildfires in southern California, City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto said on Tuesday. Judge Robert Broadbelt of the California Superior Court ruled that even if it is hosts who set prices, Los Angeles’ allegations that Airbnb’s advertising those prices and charging for rentals violated California’s penal code and Los Angeles’ municipal code. Related: Los Angeles Sues Airbnb for Alleged Price Gouging Following Wildfires The lawsuit filed in July accused Airbnb of illegally raising rental prices on more…

The Salvation Army, headquartered in Virginia with a facility in Lynchburg, violated federal law when it discriminated against an employee with cancer by denying her a reasonable accommodation to seek treatment and causing her to resign, according to a lawsuit by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). According to the EEOC, in October 2024, a case worker with Hodgkin’s lymphoma provided The Salvation Army with a medical note stating her chemotherapy treatments would continue through February 2025 and asking for intermittent leave for the treatments and related recovery. Instead, The Salvation Army told the employee it needed to let…

Ford Motor Co. took an unusually human approach to fixing its stubborn quality problems: It brought back what it calls “gray beard” engineers to help train younger staff and to reprogram the artificial intelligence tools that weren’t getting the job done. Over the last three years, Ford says it has hired 350 veteran engineers, many of them former employees and others from suppliers, to help address seemingly intractable quality woes that have cost the automaker billions. The result: Ford is the top mainstream brand in the latest JD Power Initial Quality Survey, released June 25. “Artificial intelligence is a fantastic…

The board of directors of Big I Illinois named Brett Gerger CEO, effective July 1. Gerger, who has served as director of education and agency resources with Big I Illinois since 2019, succeeds Phil Lackman, who is retiring after 31 years with the association. Kristi Osmond will assume the role of education director, and Jennifer Jacobs has been promoted to chief operating officer. Gerger will provide overall leadership for the association, including organizational management, strategic planning, business development, fundraising, budget and finance oversight, public relations, and coordination between the Board of Directors and association staff. Gerger began his 24-year career…

The 2026 hurricane season may turn out to be a quiet one, as predicted by long-range forecasts this year. But that only means that businesses should have more time to review and rehearse their emergency plans before the next storm comes calling. That was the message stressed Tuesday by safety leaders at some of Florida’s most critical—and most vulnerable—corporations: Florida Power & Light, Tampa General Hospital, and Tampa Electric Co. “Test those plans. They look great on paper and may check all the boxes, but if you’re not testing them, they’re likely not going to work out,” said Erinn Skiba,…