The Louisiana Department of Insurance has issued a bulletin to all authorized and surplus lines property casualty insurance companies writing business in Louisiana reminding insurers that final submission of loss data from Hurricanes Gustav and Ike for the Aug. 1, …
New-York based Eastman Kodak Co. has agreed to pay $21.4 million to settle legal action brought by black workers who claim the photography products maker paid and promoted them less than their white co-workers. The deal was given preliminary approval …
Text-messaging while driving may be against the law, but that hasn’t stopped New Jerseyans from thumbing it on the road. A Fairleigh Dickinson-PublicMind poll on driving habits out Thursday finds the number of motorists who admit to texting while driving …
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged that five individuals, including a former investment banker at Goldman Sachs & Co., illegally tipped or traded on confidential information ahead of an announcement in April 2008 that Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. …
Congressional Budget Office director Douglas Elmendorf told lawmakers Thursday legislation to expand health care coverage would increase federal healthcare costs “to a significant degree” and revenue will need to be found to keep from increasing the deficit. Asked by the …
Congress has picked up the pace of its work on an overhaul of the $2.5 trillion healthcare industry as it tries to pass legislation in each chamber before the August congressional recess. A first Senate committee acted Wednesday on its …
A federal study of a blaze that killed nine firefighters in a South Carolina city two years ago is expected to released by early fall. The National Institute of Standards and Technology is studying the June 2007 blaze which gutted …
The North Carolina Legislature has agreed that repeat drunken-drivers should get a chance one day to have their license restored. The House agreed 88-28 this week to create a procedure whereby someone convicted of habitual impaired driving can ask the …
Near-simultaneous bomb blasts ripped through the JW Marriott and the Ritz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta’s business district on Friday, killing nine people and wounding 42 others including foreign businessmen, police said. A car bomb had also exploded along a toll road …
In an unusually speedy move, a U.S. government agency released more than a thousand intelligence images of Arctic ice just a few hours after the National Academy of Sciences recommended the action to help scientists study the impact of climate …
