UnitedHealth Group

👍 31%

👥 43% | 🌏 48% | 💰 49%
 

Practices Under Fire

America's largest healthcare conglomerate faces Senate scrutiny into its billing practices after reports that it added extra diagnoses to patients' Medicare claims to overbill the government for things that were never treated.

UnitedHealth also faces an investigation from the Justice Department over its Medicare billing practices, though it defends its methods.

BP PLC

👍 56%

👥 51% | 🌏 47% | 💰 52%
 

Clean Dream Cancelled

BP is giving up on its ambitious plans of five years ago to shift from fossil fuels to clean energy production. Under a new CEO and pressure from investors for better returns, the energy giant scrapped its plan to grow renewables 20-fold by 2030.

The oil major now aims to ramp up oil output to boost returns and trim green investment spending plans by $5B while selling off several low-performing assets and businesses.

DoorDash Inc.

👍 60%

👥 53% | 🌏 53% | 💰 56%
 

Questionable Pay Practices

DoorDash will pay $16.8M in back pay to 63,000 couriers after a state probe found it used tips to offset guaranteed wages from 2017 to 2019. It promised to update its app to split each order’s pay clearly, ensuring drivers see base pay and tips separately.

The top US food delivery firm considers drivers contractors, which limits their access to employee benefits and protections like minimum wage but reduces costs for DoorDash.

Apple Inc.

👍 68%

👥 58% | 🌏 57% | 💰 69%
 

Back in Action

Apple will finally be able to sell its new iPhones in Indonesian after a five‐month standoff after reaching an agreement with local regulators to invest $1B in local tech training to boost domestic innovation.

The iPhone maker was banned due to new regulations requiring foreign companies to invest in the region in return for access to the massive market with hundreds of millions of young, tech-savvy consumers.

Exxon Mobil Corp

👍 30%

👥 40% | 🌏 43% | 💰 49%
 

Climate Accountability

Exxon Mobil and other oil majors face a ruling that lets Puerto Rican towns sue over claims they downplayed climate change and impeded a shift to clean energy that led to 2017 hurricanes that devasted the region.

The oil giant faces huge financial risks if courts around the world start to hold the industry accountable for mounting costs related to climate change.