Passaic County in New Jersey is not in the hurricane belt nor is it on the banks of a major river, and yet 810 properties there received $170 million of taxpayer money through the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) since …
Hurricane Sally drew closer to the U.S. Gulf Coast on Tuesday morning, threatening historic floods, the National Hurricane Center said, with more than two feet (61 cm)of rain expected in some areas. The second strong storm in less than a …
Insurance services firm Holmes Murphy has hired Barry Fitzpatrick as vice president, Client Service, for the company’s growing Minneapolis, Minnesota, Employee Benefits team. Fitzpatrick brings more than 20 years of experience in the group employee benefits industry and will serve …
Palomar Insurance Corp. has added Jeremy Dickey as Operations manager. As a specialist in standardizing, modifying, and expediting systems, his focus will be on improving methods and planning for personal and commercial insurance programs. Dickey has 20 years of experience …
The average number of visits for evaluation and management and physical medicine services in the California workers’ compensation system has continued to edge down since the enactment of the sweeping reform law SB 863 in 2012. However, with the adoption …
Washington’s Department of Labor & Industries is proposing no increase in the average price employers pay for workers’ compensation insurance next year. If the proposal is adopted, this will be the first time in 20 years that workers’ comp rates …
Daimler AG will pay $2.2 billion violating U.S. clean air laws and to resolve claims from 250,000 U.S. vehicle owners, court documents show. The German automaker and its Mercedes-Benz USA LLC unit disclosed on Aug. 13 it had reached a …
Alphabet Inc.’s Google faces a multibillion-dollar lawsuit in the U.K. over claims that YouTube routinely breaks privacy laws by tracking children online. The suit, filed on behalf of more than 5 million British children under 13 and their parents, is …
A collective failure by political leaders to heed warnings and prepare for an infectious disease pandemic has transformed “a world at risk” to a “world in disorder,” according to a report on international epidemic preparedness. “Financial and political investments in …
The University of New Mexico retaliated against the director of Africana Studies for demanding that his program be elevated to a department and later removed him when the program got state funding for the change, according to a whistleblower lawsuit. …