An effort to build cable barriers on Iowa’s highways has helped reduce the number of cross-median fatal crashes. After 21 people died as a result of cross-median collisions in 2010, state officials installed 177 miles of cable median barriers. Since …
A Nebraska-based unit of the Toro Co. has been awarded $24.3 million in a patent infringement lawsuit against Briggs & Stratton. The Lincoln Journal Star reports the jury agreed with Exmark Manufacturing’s arguments that Briggs & Stratton violated a patent for …
An $18 billion liability figure attached itself last Friday to Volkswagen’s diesel disaster. This morning comes news that the German car maker has set aside $7.3 billion (€6.5 billion) to cover a scandal spreading worldwide. How to make sense of these …
Utah residents who work in construction and manufacturing are more likely to smoke and binge drink than workers in other industries, according to a new report from Utah’s Department of Health. The data is based on a telephone survey of …
A long-delayed federal investigative report into gas well blowout off the coast of Louisiana two years ago has faulted the drilling rig’s crew for a blowout that destroyed the well at a cost of nearly $60 million. WWLTV reports that the …
Stack Bros. Mechanical Contractors Inc. of Superior, Wis., a heating and plumbing contractor in northern Wisconsin and northern Minnesota, will pay $140,000 and furnish other relief to settle an age discrimination and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment …
More than 400 lawsuits have been consolidated in Texas, where energy drilling giant Chesapeake Operating Inc. is accused of withholding more than $1 billion in royalty payments from about 25,000 property owners. “The vast majority are just smaller landowners, even …
Engle-Hambright & Davies Inc. (EHD), an independent insurance agency based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, hired Matthew Swanick as Construction and Surety Practice group leader in the Commercial Department. Prior to joining EHD, Swanick most recently worked for Wells Fargo Insurance Services …
An agency under fire since a 2013 building collapse killed six people jeopardizes public safety by allowing uncertified workers to conduct building inspections, Philadelphia city auditors said. The two building inspectors who weren’t properly certified performed 1,900 inspections, the Philadelphia …
Aon Benfield is examining how insurers and reinsurers can identify and capitalize on new growth opportunities amid challenging market dynamics at its 14th Biennial Hazards Conference in Australia. Aon noted that it’s “one of the largest gatherings of hazard risk …