Archive for January 2025

TikTok has long known that its popular video livestreams encourage sexual content, including streams exploiting and “grooming” minors, according to a lawsuit from the state of Utah that was unredacted on Friday. TikTok also discovered through an internal investigation that … Source: Claims Journal

Fast-fashion online retailer Shein, which is hoping to list in London, faces a U.K. hearing on Jan. 7 where a British parliamentary committee plans to question the firm, founded in China in 2008, about the rights of workers in its … Source: Claims Journal

Some workers on car-rental startup Turo Inc.’s trust and safety team have interrupted vacations to monitor and respond to the aftermath of deadly attacks in Las Vegas and New Orleans, according to a person familiar with the matter. In both … Source: Claims Journal

GlobalFoundries and IBM said on Thursday they have settled dueling lawsuits in which GlobalFoundries was accused of breaching a contract with IBM and the computer giant was alleged to have misused the chipmaker’s trade secrets. The companies said in a … Source: Claims Journal

Verisk said on Thursday it will be the first modeler to request a review of its wildfire catastrophe model under a reform pushed by California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara. The reform allows catastrophe models to be used by insurance carriers … Source: Claims Journal

Chinese state-sponsored hackers broke into the computers of senior U.S. Treasury Department leaders as part of a recent breach of the agency, according to a U.S. official and another person familiar with the matter. The hackers were able to access … Source: Claims Journal

A gruesome attack on revelers celebrating New Year’s in New Orleans thrust U.S. domestic security back into the spotlight just weeks before Donald Trump is sworn in as president. The tragedy, which killed at least 15 people and injured dozens … Source: Claims Journal

Waves of intense cold will send temperatures plunging as much as 20F (11C) below normal across the central and eastern U.S. this month, triggering ice storms that could down power lines and snarl travel from the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic. … Source: Claims Journal

An employee who was injured when rescuing chocolate candies from the heat in his employer-owned delivery truck is not due workers’ compensation benefits. The Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission (WCC) upheld a deputy commissioner’s denial of benefits, agreeing that Ronald Mark … Source: Claims Journal

Commercial aviation has suffered its deadliest year since 2018 after the Jeju Air Co. disaster in South Korea and last week’s downing of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane. Fatalities onboard passenger aircraft jumped to 318 this year with the two recent … Source: Claims Journal