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21 01, 2025

US Upgrades Probe Into Emergency Braking Issues in Certain Honda Vehicles

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The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Monday it is expanding and upgrading a probe into about 295,125 American Honda vehicles over reports of crashes and injuries due to their automatic emergency braking systems. According to the reports, …

21 01, 2025

Trucordia Acquires Rusty Healy Agency in Mississippi

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Utah-based Trucordia, a top-20 U.S. insurance brokerage, has acquired the Rusty Healy Insurance Agency in Madison, Mississippi, the company said in a news release. Healy, founded more than 30 years ago, offers personal and commercial lines of coverage in the …

21 01, 2025

Florida Snowman: As Ice and Snow Come to the State, DeSantis Declares Emergency

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As a rare snowstorm was bearing down on northern Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday declared a state of emergency for the region, readying the National Guard and state agencies to respond as needed. Alabama’s governor also declared a state …

21 01, 2025

Trump Curtails Protections Around Diversity, LGBTQ Rights

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The United States will recognize only two sexes, male and female, that are unchangeable, President Donald Trump ordered on Monday as he moved to quickly end a range of policies aimed at promoting racial equity and protecting rights for LGBTQ+ …

20 12, 2024

American Airlines Settles Race Discrimination Suit by Black Men Removed From Flight

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American Airlines has agreed to settle a race discrimination lawsuit by three Black men who were temporarily removed from a flight at the insistence of white flight attendants, according to a court filing on Thursday. The terms of the agreement …

21 01, 2025

LA Braces for Fire Risk From Bone-Dry Winds as Winter Rains Lag

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Dangerous winds and drought will create extreme fire risk across Southern California Tuesday, putting more than 11 million people in the path of conditions that would allow blazes to spread quickly as the region holds out hope for rain. Seasonal …

20 12, 2024

Amazon Agrees to Worker Safety Measures to Settle OSHA Probe

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Amazon.com will implement safety measures at all of its U.S. facilities to settle a federal agency’s claims that it failed to prevent workers from developing back problems and other ergonomic injuries, the agency said on Thursday. Amazon settled a series …

21 01, 2025

Tropolis Acquires 4 Agencies in Midwest

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Tropolis, an insurance brokerage that provides property & casualty (P&C) and employee benefits solutions, announced it has completed the acquisitions of four Midwest insurance agencies. Terms of the private transactions were not disclosed. The four businesses are BDMH Enterprises, an …

20 12, 2024

Auto Insurer’s Online System Breach Tied to Unemployment Fraud

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Noblr, a USAA Insurance subsidiary offering insurance through an online quoting application, will pay $500,000 following a data breach that New York officials say affected 80,000 people and led to fraudulent unemployment benefit claims. New York Attorney General Letitia James …

21 01, 2025

New Orleans Landscaper Ordered to Pay $319K in Back Wages

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TheU.S. Department of Labor has recovered $319,065 in back wages for 49 workers employed by a New Orleans landscaping company that misclassified them as independent contractors and, by doing so, denied them overtime pay. The department’s Wage and Hour Division …