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The U.S. Supreme Court reined in thousands of lawsuits pursued in state courts accusing Bayer of failing to warn users that the active ingredient in its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, handing a major legal victory on Thursday to the German company. The justices in a 7-2 decision overturned a jury verdict in Missouri awarding $1.25 million to a man named John Durnell who said he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after years of exposure to glyphosate in Roundup. The Supreme Court agreed with Bayer that a U.S. law that governs pesticides precludes failure-to-warn claims that are brought under state law…

O’Reilly Auto Enterprises, LLC, doing business as O’Reilly Auto Parts, a national auto parts retailer operating more than 6,500 stores throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Canada, violated federal law by failing to reasonably accommodate a disabled employee at its Belleville, Michigan distribution center and fired him instead, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit. According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, O’Reilly hired an employee as a commercial truck driver in 2015. In the summer of 2022, he had a stroke and multiple seizures and was hospitalized in an intensive care unit. The employee was…

Corpus Christi, the leading crude-export hub in the US, is no longer facing an imminent emergency after heavy rain and tropical storms replenished reservoirs that had been depleted by years of drought. The South Texas coastal city had projected it could be forced to implement emergency water-saving measures by December as water supplies dwindled. But recent rainfall has helped delay the emergency date into the latter half of 2027, according to City Manager Peter Zanoni. “The rains have been extremely beneficial,” said Zanoni, who will present the new data to the City Council on Tuesday. “A Level One water emergency…

Orlando Bravo was quick to see the disruptive potential of software, making a series of lucrative bets on the sector that turned him into a billionaire and transformed the buyout shop he leads, Thoma Bravo, into an industry powerhouse. Now, the disruption is coming for his own firm. The Miami-based financier is confronting it head-on, seeking to ensure his empire is ready for the era of artificial intelligence — and reassure investors that a debt-laden bet on online customer surveys, which lost more than $5 billion, is a one-off. The fund that held the investment is lagging behind rivals, and…

Specialist insurer CFC said it is responding to customer demand with updates to embed affirmative AI coverage within its portfolio. The rollout introduces clear, explicit AI-related language to eliminate ambiguity across seven key policies to ensure customers have certainty around how AI-related exposures are treated rather than relying on implied or silent coverage. The program includes updates across a range of CFC’s core products, including technology errors & omissions (Tech E&O), professional liability (E&O), eHealth, intellectual property (IP), management liability, media, and cyber proactive response (CPR). CFC said it will be addressing novel AI exposures like model hallucination, AI generated…

Florida-based King Risk Partners has continued its expansion in New England with the acquisition of Perry Insurance Agency of North Andover, Massachusetts. Perry Insurance Agency is an independent insurance agency that offers personal insurance, commercial insurance, and liability coverage options. Owners Darryl Perry and Marc Perry said that partnering with King Risk Partners gives them access to expanded resources and broader capabilities. Scott Popilek, chief executive officer of King Risk Partners, said the deal supports King’s continued expansion i the region. King Risk Partners has more than 50 locations on the Eastern seaboard from New Hampshire to Florida, including six…

Technology is moving extremely fast, and a recent Clyde & Co survey of global business leaders has found that associated risks are weighing heavily. According to the law firm’s latest Corporate Risk Radar, 86% of leaders—CEOs, CFOs, COOs, general counsel, and board members—rate technological risk as “high impact.” This is up from 46% just last year, marking the largest year-on-year increase of any category in the research. “All businesses are trying to adapt to artificial intelligence (AI) as quickly as they can, but the speed at which it changes makes that a big challenge,” said Tim Crockford, partner at Clyde…

Florida-based Safepoint Holdings, parent company of Safepoint Insurance and Manatee Insurance Exchanged has filed to withdraw its initial public offering plans in the U.S., the Florida insurer said on Wednesday. The withdrawal comes even as the IPO market has picked up pace after a brief lull in March, with companies across sectors moving ahead with listings. The Tampa-based Safepoint launched its IPO last month and was expected to go public earlier this month. It was aiming to raise up to $283.3 million by offering 16.7 million shares priced between $15 and $17 apiece. “We believe the withdrawal has nothing to…

A fire near downtown Los Angeles that has affected the health of nearby residents and caused businesses economic harm for more than a week was knocked down Wednesday night, fire officials said. A fire at a 491,000-square-foot cold storage warehouse located near homes in Boyle Heights burned eight days. Firefighters have been knocking down walls piece by piece in an effort to extinguish remaining hot spots. Firefighters have now cleared the way for a cleanup that will involve removing millions of pounds of food from the site east of downtown Los Angeles. Up through early in the day on Wednesday,…

Thousands of Venezuelans were feared dead on Thursday after two powerful earthquakes wreaked havoc in and around the capital Caracas, trapping people beneath the rubble of collapsed buildings and setting off powerful aftershocks. A magnitude 7.2 earthquake hit about 160 km (100 miles) west of Caracas on Wednesday afternoon, followed less than a minute later by a magnitude 7.5 tremor, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Emergency workers scrambled over the debris of collapsed buildings in Caracas as night fell, while distraught relatives sought help for loved ones feared trapped. Dazed survivors were taken away, some on stretchers. “When we…