Ridesharing companies in Las Vegas, Nev. such as Uber and Lyft won’t have to hand over lists of their drivers to Clark County commissioners after all. Commissioners voted this week to approve its business licensing ordinance without language requiring the companies …
A retired Army officer who worked in the ROTC office at the University of Portland in Oregon has filed a lawsuit claiming his co-workers discriminated against him because of disabilities he suffered in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Oregonian reported that …
Texas Commissioner of Insurance David Mattax has appointed Deborah King to the board of directors of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA). King of Highland Village is vice president and chief actuary at Republic Underwriters Insurance Co. She has 25 …
Zurich Insurance Group AG, Switzerland’s biggest insurer, is increasing job cuts and relocations to a total of at least 1,800 at the company reduces costs and overhauls its biggest unit. The company will move 300 positions in group operations out of Switzerland by …
St. Peters, Mo.-based Mathenia Insurance Group recently hired Andy Kelly as a producer and Leslie Osborne as new business support. Kelly will represent a variety of insurance products and services to existing and potential clientele. His responsibilities include providing expert guidance …
A judge has ordered the former owners of a northern Indiana wood-recycling plant to pay $50.6 million in damages to nearby residents people who contended its dust and fumes threatened their health. U.S. District Judge Philip Simon last week ordered …
Manslaughter charges were dropped on Wednesday, Dec. 2, against a BP supervisor responsible for safety aboard the rig where an explosion killed 11 workers in 2010, and he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of violating the federal Clean Water …
A stretch of the southbound side of Interstate 89 in Vermont is a hotspot for speeders traveling faster than 100 miles per hour and a member of the Vermont State Police’s traffic safety unit has made a specialty of catching …
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson has replaced the chairman and one other member of a state board that establishes health insurance exchanges for small-business employees and individual consumers. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported that the governor removed Chris Parker, an attorney who …
Minnesota health officials will allow residents with chronic pain to buy medical marijuana starting in August, they announced on Dec. 2 in a long-awaited decision that could expand enrollment in the state’s struggling program by thousands of patients. Department of …