January 20, 2026

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NHTSA Opens Probe into 600K GM Vehicles Over Engine Failure Issue

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Monday it opened a recall query into about 597,571 vehicles from General Motors over engine failure. The recall affects GM vehicles equipped with a L87 6.2L V8 gas engine that experienced …

Edison Sues LA County Over Fire Deaths for Delayed Alerts

Edison International sued Los Angeles County and other public agencies for allegedly failing to ensure timely evacuation alerts that the company says could have saved most of the 19 people who died in a massive wildfire last year. If the …

Kaiser Permanente Affiliates Paying $556M to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations

An integrated healthcare consortium headquartered in Oakland, California, that are affiliates of Kaiser Permanente agreed to pay $556 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting invalid diagnosis codes for their Medicare Advantage Plan enrollees. …

Bayer Gets Supreme Court Hearing in Challenge to Roundup Suits

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Bayer AG’s appeal taking aim at thousands of lawsuits targeting its top-selling Roundup weedkiller for causing cancer. The high court agreed Friday to hear Bayer’s challenge to a $1.25 million Missouri jury verdict …

LA Fire Survivors Got a Rude Surprise That Could Hit More Americans

A year after the Los Angeles wildfires, many survivors face the same problem: Their insurance policies aren’t paying out enough to cover the cost of rebuilding. It’s a tragic predicament. And it will happen again when the next disaster hits. …

Boeing 2011 Warning May Offer Clues into 2025 UPS Jet Crash

Boeing Co. warned operators in 2011 that a key structural component found cracked in the plane involved in November’s fatal crash of a United Parcel Service Inc. freighter had failed on prior occasions. The planemaker issued a service letter in …

Allstate Can Proceed with Recovery in Texas RICO Case, Fifth Circuit Rules

Allstate can move forward in its recovery of $4.7 million it paid to settle fraudulent medical claims with a Houston, Texas medical facility, the Fifth Circuit has ruled. The federal appellate court reversed a lower court’s ruling that Allstate’s RICO …