One person was killed and more than a dozen were injured when tornadoes tore through parts of Texas and Oklahoma, damaging a school, homes and businesses, officials said. The same storm system was poised to move into Louisiana and Mississippi …
Two weeks after St. Johns Insurance Co. was declared insolvent, Florida regulators have taken steps to begin liquidating Tampa-based Avatar Property & Casualty Insurance Co., making it the second carrier this year to falter and the sixth in the last …
A federal administrative law judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered a Hannibal, Missouri cement company to pay a worker the company penalized for assisting federal safety investigators during a site visit. On March 1, Administrative Law Judge William B. Moran …
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has declared Koboat Trucking LLC, USDOT No. 3273682, a Houston-based motor carrier, to be an “imminent hazard” to public safety and ordered the motor carrier to immediately cease all …
A judge has given preliminary approval to a settlement agreement that would allocate $83 million to individual owners of condominium units at the collapsed Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida. It’s the latest of several developments in the aftermath of …
One person was found dead March 6 as firefighters worked to contain a wildfire that burned 12,000 acres in south-central Kansas. Reno County Emergency Management officials said one person who had been reported missing during the fire was found dead …
The trial for a lawsuit accusing Denver, Colorado, police of using indiscriminate force two years ago against people protesting the killing of George Floyd started Monday in federal court. Opening statements will come after a jury is seated for what …
The city of Los Angeles is suing Monsanto and two other companies for past and future costs of dealing with contamination of waterways by long-banned chemicals called polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, the city attorney announced Monday. Long-lasting PCBs were used …
EPIC has added Juliet Lucero in Newport Beach, California. Lucero will work with schools to identify the benefits strategies to meet short-term and long-term goals, while establishing programs to address the needs of school employees. Lucero was previously assistant vice …
GM Financial, an automobile financing company, has agreed to pay more than $1.8 million to resolve allegations that the company’s business practices violated Massachusetts state consumer protection laws. Attorney General Maura Healey’s office alleged that Americredit Financial Services, Inc., d/b/a …