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Johnson & Johnson said on Monday it would pay $5.5 billion to resolve tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging its baby powder and other talc products cause ovarian cancer, in a landmark settlement aimed at closing a chapter of contentious litigation that has dogged the company for years. J&J said the settlement covers about 69,000 cases consolidated in federal court in New Jersey, and related cases in state court, totaling 99.75% of the remaining talc claims. Plaintiffs’ law firms confirmed the deal on Monday, saying it was a good resolution after a decade-long court battle. The deal must still be…

Howden, the international brokerage that made a much-talked-about entrance into Florida last year with the alleged poaching of more than 200 Brown & Brown employees, now plans to make the state its headquarters for the Western Hemisphere. “Miami is one of the world’s most connected business communities and an increasingly important location for companies operating across the Americas,” Mike Parrish, CEO of Howden Americas, said in a statement Monday. “We’re thrilled to be the only global broker based here.” The rapidly growing brokerage did not say where in Miami the office will be. But news reports from last fall indicated…

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has denied a petition seeking a defect investigation into the emergency mechanical door release on about 180,000 Tesla Model 3 vehicles. NHTSA said the petition did not present evidence of a likely safety-related defect warranting an investigation and that the issue would be more appropriately addressed through an ongoing rulemaking process. The petition covered about 180,000 model-year 2022 Tesla Model 3 vehicles and alleged the manual door release was difficult to locate after a crash if the vehicle lost power, increasing the risk of occupants getting trapped. Current federal safety rules governing vehicle…

Power sources providing electricity only to data centers and not the public grid may not be subject to federal pollution laws, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said July 27. The EPA said if the power plants are not supplying electricity to the grid then they would not be subject to the federal Clean Air Act’s Acid Rain Program, which has been key to the dramatic reduction of smog and soot pollution from industrial facilities. “The EPA believes that, considering the plain text of these definitions, the Acid Rain Program does not apply to power generation facilities that are not connected…

The number of software security flaws discovered in popular technology products in 2026 is on pace to roughly double the tally of vulnerabilities that surfaced in 2025, an explosion driven by increasingly capable artificial intelligence systems. The US National Vulnerabilities Database, a repository of digital security holes, recorded 45,207 flaws between January and Monday, a count approaching the total number found in all of 2025. Last year saw an all-time record for recorded vulnerabilities in that database. Security vulnerabilities are flaws in software that can be exploited by a hacker, including to break into computer systems to commit crimes or…

The U.S. property/casualty industry posted its best underwriting profit and combined ratio in a decade in 2025, building upon the $1 trillion of total direct premiums written logged the prior year for the first time. According to a new report from industry financial strength rating agency AM Best, DPW grew 5% in 2025 to about $1.11 trillion. Overall, the industry’s combined ratio finished at 93 in 2025–an improvement of 3.6 points over 2024. After several years of booking underwriting losses, U.S. P/C insurers recorded underwriting income of about $23 billion in 2024 and then increased it another $38 billion to…

A Michigan man was sentenced last week for his role in a Detroit auto theft ring from 2023 to 2025, Attorney General Dana Nessel announced. Amarion Jordan, 23, of Inkster, was sentenced to 5-20 years’ incarceration after pleading guilty to one count of Conducting a Criminal Enterprise. Jordan was part of a criminal ring that targeted new vehicle storage lots at manufacturing facilities, car dealerships, parking lots, and individual residences. A 2024 investigation by the Attorney General’s office uncovered over 400 stolen vehicles worth approximately $8 million in southeastern Michigan. According to the department, stolen vehicles were sold exponentially below…

One man from Baltimore and another from Philadelphia have been sentenced for their roles in transporting stolen motor vehicles as part of a scheme that also involved as many as eight other defendants. The U.S. Attorney’s Office, Middle District of Pennsylvania, reported that Nigel Criss and Rafael Otero Nieves were sentenced to 54 months’ imprisonment and 84 months’ imprisonment, respectively. In imposing the sentences, the judge noted the volume of vehicles stolen by Criss and Otero—more than two dozen each—and the supervisory roles each defendant played in the wide-ranging, multi-state conspiracy. According to U.S. Attorney Brian D. Miller, the two…

Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway announced that Craig J. Sutton, the owner of Tri County Fence and Deck, was sentenced for 43 felony counts and ordered to repay more than $257,000 in restitution. Sutton engaged in a pattern of fraudulent residential contracting conduct that targeted Missouri consumers seeking fencing and related construction services. Sutton used Tri County Fence and Deck to solicit large, upfront payments for residential contracting work largely relating to fencing construction. After receiving payment, Sutton performed negligible work at homes, and, in most cases, no work at all. This inaction left consumers without the services they were…

Alphabet Inc.’s Google LLC lost its bid Friday to escape a court case dangling the specter of legal liability for false statements made by an artificial intelligence chatbot. A Delaware Superior Court judge let the conservative activist Robby Starbuck move forward with claims the tech giant’s Bard AI product — a predecessor of its current Gemini model — defamed him. The ruling could leave Google on the hook for Bard results that allegedly spread false sexual assault accusations, incorrectly linked Starbuck to the “notorious white supremacist” Richard Spencer, and offered arguments in favor of his execution. Judge Meghan A. Adams…