Archive for June 2024

Elon Musk’s brain-implant startup Neuralink Corp. forced an employee to work with monkeys that carried the Herpes B virus in conditions in which the animals scratched her bare skin, according to a complaint filed Friday in state court in California. … Source: Claims Journal

Hundreds of planned medical operations and outpatient appointments at London hospitals were delayed last week, after a ransomware attack on a lab services provider that helps manage blood transfusions. The attack resulted in delays to more than 800 scheduled procedures … Source: Claims Journal

If the Detroit Tigers Major League Baseball team needs money to rebuild its roster next year, a Florida appeals court just saved the team more than $14,000 in workers’ compensation payments to an injured minor league pitcher. Florida’s 1st District … Source: Claims Journal

An American tourist was killed and his wife hospitalized after being electrocuted in a hot tub in a Mexican beach town earlier this week, an incident that prompted the family to sue the resort for wrongful death and negligence, their … Source: Claims Journal

A bill that would give a presumption of compensability to farmworker heat-related injury claims if an employer is found to be out of compliance with Cal/OSHA’s outdoor heat illness prevention standard would likely create more challenges than it would solve, … Source: Claims Journal

After holding relatively steady for nearly a decade, the number of business liability policy claims cases jumped 28% in 2023, according to a litigation report from Lex Machina. The report found that 3,596 business liability cases covering third-party claims regarding … Source: Claims Journal

A crypto exchange that was accused of lying to hundreds of thousands of customers about the risks tied to a failed investment program agreed to return $50 million of digital assets to resolve a suit by New York Attorney General … Source: Claims Journal

Escalating threats on multiple fronts are creating a ‘polycrisis’ of risk, with increased economic volatility, geopolitical upheaval and the disruptive force of AI driving the corporate threat level to its highest in 12 years, a new report shows. A survey … Source: Claims Journal

A group of London hospitals struggling to contain the fallout from a cyberattack against a critical supplier had known for years about weaknesses that left them vulnerable to hacks, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg News. The Guy’s and St … Source: Claims Journal

A retired south Florida fire captain has been arrested for insurance fraud, charged with vastly overstating the number of nights he was forced to stay in a resort hotel while his home was under repair. Florida’s chief financial officer said … Source: Claims Journal