The Federal Emergency Management Agency may expand the use of passenger trains to evacuate the sick and elderly in advance of hurricanes across the Gulf Coast, a FEMA official said. Glenn Cannon, a FEMA assistant administrator, told a recent congressional …
Jurors in Fort Worth, Texas, on Feb. 11 rejected a cancer survivor’s claim that toxic chemicals from a Texas railroad tie plant where her husband worked caused the disease that required the removal of her stomach. Linda Faust had sued …
The Texas Medical Association reported it has joined a legal action aimed a protecting tort reforms passed by the Texas Legislature passed in 2003. TMA said it sued to resolve several constitutional challenges to the centerpiece of the 2003 reforms: …
Federal funding is being made available in Hawaii in the wake of December’s stormy weather under a major disaster declaration signed by President Bush. The president ordered federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in areas hit by …
Frank Berry has been hired as director of Agency Sales and Marketing at Narragansett Bay Insurance Co. (NBIC), a member company of Blackstone Financial Group, Inc. Berry worked for 29 years at Liberty Mutual as a sales agent and as …
The most common method for handling third party ethics and compliance issues is to adopt and stick to a code of practice or policies that governs the manner in which a company’s own employees deal with third parties, according to …
Andrew Lerner has joined the Demetriou General Agency as director of personal lines. He will oversee a staff of 15. Lerner brings 23 years of agency experience to Demetriou General Agency. He has owned several agency offices in the New …
A new Internet security analysis finds that computer vulnerabilities decreased last year for perhaps the first time, though the researchers behind the report caution that there has been no improvement in Web safety. The annual “X-Force” report, released by Internet …
A jury says Boston Scientific Corp. must pay $431 million in damages in a patent dispute over the medical device maker’s drug-coated stents. The company said that federal jury in Marshall, Texas reached the damages award in a patent infringement …
The first major rewrite of Pennsylvania’s 1961 mine safety law received unanimous approval from the state Senate this week, but the mine workers union wants the House to make additions to it. Under the current draft, state inspectors for the …
