A New Jersey public school district has been found not liable for the fatal shooting of a 10-year old boy at a high school football game where security did not include a metal detector to screen attendees. The boy’s mother …
One person has died as storm Lala continues to batter parts of Hawaii including the Big Island and Oahu, potentially bringing nearly three feet of rain and damaging winds to parts of the state Sunday after narrowly missing landfall. The …
Sedgwick appointed Anders Grotte as chief commercial officer in Sweden. The appointment, effective 1 September, has him leading commercial strategy and business development and strengthening client relationships. Grotte has experience in Nordic insurance and claims management. He was previously with …
As traumatic injuries and deaths surge among children involved in crashes on e-bikes and other electrified vehicles, one California prosecutor is cracking down by pursuing criminal charges against some of the young riders’ parents. It is just one way officials …
One of the nation’s largest mortgage servicers is paying millions of dollars to settle charges it imposed insurance costs on borrowers who already had homeowners insurance policies. Forty-eight state financial agencies reached a $15.5 million settlement with NewRez LLC for …
Britain on Friday set out a range of options that could ease the pressure on car manufacturers to switch new sales to zero-emission vehicles, launching a review of the existing targets which gradually phase out new petrol and diesel cars. …
Firefighters who responded to a fire at a Maine lumber mill used tactics that inadvertently contributed to a massive explosion that killed three people, according to a report from federal investigators. The fire companies tried to extinguish the May 15 …
Amazon.com Inc. reintroduced a clause in its user agreement that seeks to prevent shoppers from filing class-action lawsuits against the online retailer, inserting a legal buffer between itself and plaintiffs attorneys that it removed five years ago. In an email …
Australia’s industrial umpire has approved new minimum standards requiring food and grocery delivery workers to be paid hourly rates above the national minimum wage and covered by injury insurance while on the job. Gig workers will be paid at least …
Claims files often describe settlement as a sequence: obtain authority, communicate acceptance, issue the check, secure the release and close the claim. Operationally, that sequence makes sense. Legally, however, the decisive event may occur much earlier — when the insurer …