A Northern California coroner is being sued by the parents of a man whose brain was given to an ambulance company for dissection. The New York couple’s 30-year-old son was killed in a 2008 car crash. The San Francisco Chronicle …
A man who was born with half a left arm is suing Starbucks for failing to hire him as a barista. Eli Pierre sued the company in San Diego, Calif. two weeks ago for unspecified damages. Pierre says that during …
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton announced that the state has received a $26 million grant to continue the design and development of a Minnesota-made health insurance exchange. An exchange is a marketplace where Minnesota consumers and employers can find, compare, choose, …
Americans love movies, and they showed it by purchasing 1.2 billion tickets worth about $10.2 billion at the box office last year. That, of course, means big business for companies that are willing to insure the risks behind these productions. …
A group of Chesapeake residents has filed a $2 billion lawsuit against the owners of Battlefield Golf Club at Centreville and Dominion Virginia Power, claiming that the toxic fly ash on which the course was built contaminated the area’s well …
TGA Insurance Managers Inc., a subsidiary of Texas-based Hallmark Financial Services Inc., has hired Michael Gallien as product manager for its oil and gas program. Prior to joining TGA, Gallien worked at Chartis from 2009 to 2011 as an energy …
Willis North America, a unit of global insurance broker Willis Group Holdings, appointed Sean McGroarty as New York-based national surety leader of Willis North America construction practice. Previously, McGroarty served as senior vice president and head of international surety with …
Just days after the 200th anniversary of a series of massive earthquakes in southeast Missouri, residents woke up on Feb. 21 to a rumbling reminder that they live in one of the continent’s most active seismic areas. The U.S. Geological …
The Wisconsin State Assembly has passed a bill that would put an end to punitive and compensatory damages for workplace discrimination. Currently, workers can file discrimination complaints with the state Department of Workforce Development seeking reinstatement, back pay, costs and …
While 2011 marked the fourth deadliest year on record for tornadoes in the United States, Texas was spared tornado-related fatalities and recorded fewer-than-average number of such storms. Not so Alabama, which led all other states in the number of tornadoes …
