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Three people have died and one is in intensive care in South Africa after a cluster of hantavirus infections linked to a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, the World Health Organization said Sunday. One case has been confirmed by laboratory testing and five others are suspected, the Geneva-based United Nations agency said in a statement posted on X. Two crew members on board also require urgent medical care. The vessel involved is the MV Hondius — currently off the coast of Cape Verde — according to the ship’s operator, Oceanwide Expeditions BV. As of late Sunday local time, Cape…

After a remarkably successful effort to extinguish diversity, equity and inclusion programs at US employers, federal officials are stepping up their push against corporate America’s remaining DEI initiatives. Last week it was a review of Walt Disney Co. television station licenses over the company’s discrimination policies, following a Jimmy Kimmel joke that drew ire from the president. Before that, it was a $17 million settlement with IBM regarding its DEI practices, and a lawsuit against Nike Inc. for allegedly not cooperating with an investigation into bias against White workers. In February, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sent a letter to…

AI Law “We are telling our clients: You should proceed with caution here.” — Alexandria Gutiérrez Swette, a lawyer at New York-based law firm Kobre & Kim, commenting on a ruling by a federal judge in New York stating that …

China has ordered its companies to ignore US sanctions, an unprecedented act of defiance that threatens to trap a vast banking sector in the crossfire as tension rises between the world’s largest economies. Beijing has often railed against unilateral sanctions and pronounced them illegitimate, but it has also quietly allowed its largest companies to comply with them, in order to avoid blowback on its own economy and to preserve access to the US financial system. Saturday’s announcement — coming before a long-awaited meeting later this month between President Donald Trump and his counterpart Xi Jinping — signals a far more…

The Baltic Exchange, the world’s top provider of benchmark shipping indices, has denied allegations from Mercuria that some of its oil tanker pricing data caused losses at the commodity trader. In a court filing dated April 30, Switzerland-based Mercuria said the losses were caused by oil tanker pricing data that did not account for the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Mercuria sued the Baltic Exchange, alleging that it has not met its statutory and contractual obligations in producing the TD3C benchmark based on voyages from the Middle East to Asia. Read more: Trader Mercuria Sues Baltic Exchange Over…

Leslie Clark isn’t counting on money from the Maui wildfire settlement to help rebuild her family home near Front Street in Lahaina. Worrying about something out of her control “is not good for your health,” said Clark, 62, who lost her home in the August 2023 fire. “It’s not good for anything.” As Maui fire victims like Clark inch toward finally receiving their share of a $4.03 billion settlement to compensate them for their losses, one thing has become painfully apparent: Few victims will be made whole, even many who, like Clark, had property insurance. Settlement checks could start flowing…

Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee announced that the state has finalized a settlement agreement with Deloitte Consulting LLP related to the December 2024 cybersecurity incident that shuttered the state’s benefits administration site, RIBridges. In February 2025, Deloitte, the services provider for the site, paid the state $5 million to compensate for the ransomware attack that forced the benefits site offline and exposed private information of some of the more that 650,000 people who use the system. Under the terms of the final agreement, Deloitte has agreed to pay the state an additional $7 million, bringing the state’s total direct financial…

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is delaying the city’s $127 billion budget as he pressures the state to limit a tax credit used by hedge funds, private equity firms and other businesses. Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin called on Governor Kathy Hochul and lawmakers in Albany to limit the city’s pass-through entity tax credit on Tuesday. The break, known as PTET, allows business owners to bypass federal limits on state and local tax deductions. “More than 95% of PTET credits go to those making more than $1 million a year,” Mamdani said at a press conference inside…

Denver, Colorado-based Rachel McCarter joined Alliant Insurance Services as vice president within its employee benefits group. In this role, she will partner develop and implement benefits services designed to drive value and enhance employee engagement. McCarter has worked with clients across a range of industries and geographic markets as a consultant and business development leader. Prior to Alliant, McCarter was a senior principal with a global employee benefits consulting firm, where she led business development for voluntary benefits across the West and Central regions. Alliant is headquartered in Irvine, California. Topics Alliant Employee Benefits Was this article valuable? Yes No…

Under a bill poised to win approval in the South Carolina legislature, the decades-old practice of letting many drivers automatically enjoy relatively painless windshield replacements may soon disappear. House Bill 4817, titled the “Insurance Rate Reduction and Policy Holder Protection Act,” also would give the state Department of Insurance more investigative and enforcement powers and would set new penalties for insurers and insureds that violate certain statutes. The 40-page bill, which has multiple sponsors, would end the 37-year-old law that exempts auto glass from mandatory auto insurance deductibles for drivers with comprehensive coverage. If passed and signed into law, the…