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09, 2015
Former Maryland Commissioner Goldsmith Joins Law Firm Hogan Lovells
Law firm Hogan Lovells announced that former Maryland Insurance Commissioner Therese Goldsmith has joined firm’s Health practice and the Insurance Industry sector group as a partner in the Baltimore office. Goldsmith was appointed as Maryland’s insurance commissioner in May 2011 …
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09, 2015
Uber, Lyft Drivers Already Racking up Citations at Las Vegas Airport
Drivers with Uber and Lyft are already racking up citations after a week of doing business in Las Vegas. McCarran International Airport spokesman Chris Jones confirmed authorities cited 87 drivers as of last week for not being authorized to drop …
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09, 2015
Uber Sues St. Louis Taxi Commission Over Ride-Sharing Ban
An Uber Technologies Inc. company accused the St. Louis Metropolitan Taxicab Commission in a lawsuit of functioning as a cartel with cab companies to ban its ride-sharing service in what it says is the largest U.S. city without it. Uber, …
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09, 2015
Pier 1 Imports Fined $86K for Safety Hazards at 2 Texas Sites
Pier 1 Imports Inc. has been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for workplace safety hazard at facilities in Fort Worth and Mansfield, Texas. Proposed penalties total $86,100. The company was cited for three …
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09, 2015
DOL: Halliburton Owes Nearly $18.3M in Overtime Pay
The U.S. Department of Labor reported that Houston-based oil and gas service provider, Halliburton, has agreed to pay $18,293,557 to 1,016 employees nationwide after the company was found to have misclassified the workers. The department’s Wage and Hour Division investigated Halliburton …
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09, 2015
Brit Invests in Transaction Insurance Specialist Broker Ambridge
Ambridge Partners LLC, a managing general underwriter of transactional insurance products, announced that specialty insurer Brit Limited has made a “significant strategic investment” in Ambridge. The amount of the investment, which is subject to regulatory approval, was not disclosed. Brit …
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09, 2015
Iowa’s New Highway Cable Barriers Helping to Reduce Fatalities
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 …
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09, 2015
Toro Awarded $24.3M in Patent Dispute with Briggs & Stratton
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 …
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09, 2015
Trying to Put a Price Tag on Volkswagen’s Emission-Fraud Scandal
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 …
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09, 2015
Report Shows Higher Smoking, Drinking Among Utah Construction Workers
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 …