Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the state has secured a settlement with Marriott International, Inc., that resolves an investigation into a breach of one of the company’s reservation databases. The breach exposed 131 million guest records pertaining to customers …
Cuba was dealing with heavy rains and winds today from Tropical Storm Oscar, even as it continues to deal with a prolonged blackout affecting a large swath of the island. According to the U.S. National Hurricane Center, Oscar made landfall …
Applied Underwriters Aerospace, headquartered in Atlanta, has named Richard Parker as chairman of the Washington, D.C.-based group. Parker has over 35 years of experience in space insurance, satellite engineering and satellite and launch vehicle procurement. Before joining Applied Underwriters, he …
William Berg, an insurance producer and former financial advisor from Waukee, Iowa, was sentenced to nine years in prison on Friday after pleading guilty in federal court to wire fraud and money laundering charges. In addition to his prison sentence, …
An agreement by Vale, BHP and their joint venture Samarco to pay 170 billion reais ($29.85 billion) in compensation for a deadly dam collapse in Brazil could end more than a hundred lawsuits against the mining companies in the South …
A New York town’s highway superintendent is not protected from liability for a collision with another vehicle because he was not actually engaged in work on a highway at the time of the accident, New York’s highest court recently ruled, …
Dozens of farmers in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin are scrambling to feed their flocks after a struggling organic broiler chicken producer abruptly closed a year after getting a $39 million federal loan. Pure Prairie Poultry shuttered its Charles City, Iowa, …
California’s 2025 minimum and maximum temporary total disability rates will increase on Jan. 1, 2025, the Division of Workers’ Compensation announced. The minimum TTD rate will increase from $242.86 to $252.03, and the maximum TTD rate will increase from $1,619.15 …
The Vessel, a towering, honeycomb-like sculpture in Manhattan that was popular with tourists before a series of suicides forced its closure in 2021, will reopen Monday with new safety features. The 150-foot (46-meter) structure opened in 2019 as the centerpiece …
DONALDSONVILLE, La. (AP) — Seventeen cars of a train derailed in south Louisiana on Friday, and several leaked a chemical used to sanitize swimming pools, but authorities said it was not a threat to the public. It was not immediately …