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AI Company Eightfold Sued for Helping Companies Secretly Score Job Seekers

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Two Workers Sue Over New York City Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak

Eightfold AI, a venture capital-backed artificial intelligence hiring platform used by Microsoft, PayPal and many other Fortune 500 companies, is being sued for allegedly compiling reports used to screen job applicants without their knowledge. The lawsuit filed in California on Tuesday accusing Eightfold of violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act shows how consumer advocates are […]

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Court Orders Justice Family Coal Companies to Pay $1M to Liberty Mutual Unit

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Court Orders Justice Family Coal Companies to Pay $1M to Liberty Mutual Unit

A federal judge has ordered coal companies owned by the family of U.S. Sen. Jim Justice to cough up more than $1 million in unpaid workers’ compensation premiums owed to a Liberty Mutual company—five years after an audit showed the employers had underpaid premiums. Justice, the former governor of West Virginia and a longtime coal

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Companies Work to Handle Safety Challenges of New Venezuelan Oil Exports: Sources

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Companies Work to Handle Safety Challenges of New Venezuelan Oil Exports: Sources

Oil companies aiming to participate in new exports of Venezuelan crude to the U.S. following the ouster of President Nicolas Maduro are in hasty discussions to find tankers and put together operations to transfer the crude safely from vessels and dilapidated Venezuelan ports, four sources familiar with the operations said. Trading houses and oil companies,

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CEOs on Guard as Trump Rattles Companies With Series of Edicts

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CEOs on Guard as Trump Rattles Companies With Series of Edicts

For American CEOs, reaping the rewards of a Donald Trump presidency is a little more complicated the second time around, in an administration that increasingly pairs conventional conservative deregulation with populist state intervention in big business. In the last week, the president has fired off a series of demands and edicts aimed at C-suites, all

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Andover Companies Completes Reorganization

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Massachusetts Approves Reorganizations, Mergers for Andover Companies

The Andover Companies has completed its reorganization into a mutual holding company structure, effective January 1, 2026. The plan of reorganization was recently approved by the Massachusetts Division of Insurance and the policyholders of Merrimack Mutual Fire Insurance Co. and Cambridge Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Both mutuals are now wholly owned subsidiaries of The Andover

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US Sanctions Chinese Companies, Tankers With Venezuela Links

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US Sanctions Chinese Companies, Tankers With Venezuela Links

The Trump administration stepped up a pressure campaign against Venezuela’s oil exports by sanctioning companies based in Hong Kong and mainland China, along with related oil tankers it accused of evading restrictions. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control on Wednesday added four companies with links to Venezuela’s oil industry — Zhejiang-based Corniola Ltd.

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US Justice Department Using Fraud Law to Target Companies on DEI, WSJ Reports

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US Justice Department Using Fraud Law to Target Companies on DEI, WSJ Reports

The Trump administration has launched investigations into the use of diversity initiatives in hiring and promotion at major U.S. companies, the Wall Street Journal reported. Google and Verizon are among a list of companies that have received Justice Department demands for documents and information about their workplace programs, the report said, citing people familiar with

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Massachusetts Approves Reorganizations, Mergers for Andover Companies

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Massachusetts Approves Reorganizations, Mergers for Andover Companies

Massachusetts regulatory officials have approved a plan of reorganizations and mergers for two domestic mutual insurers, Merrimack Mutual Fire Insurance Co. and Cambridge Mutual Fire Insurance Co. The plan calls for a reorganization of each mutual as a domestic stock insurance company, the acquisition of each by intermediate holding companies owned by mutual holding companies,

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Employee Groups Stay Resilient as Companies Back Away From DEI

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Employee Groups Stay Resilient as Companies Back Away From DEI

Despite the backlash against diversity, equity and inclusion policies in the US, employee groups built around shared identities or interests have largely held up. The number of Fortune 50 companies that publicly disclose so-called employee resource groups, or ERGs, was 48 at the end of 2025, up from 46 two years earlier, according to an

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