The Eugene School District has paid $5,000 to settle an Oregon lawsuit that accused it of failing to stop students at a middle school from bullying and harassing a boy they perceived as gay. The suit was filed in federal …
Two New Mexico cities are preparing to begin operating public charging stations for electric vehicles. In late December 2013 Gallup opened a Tesla Motors supercharger station and Farmington is scheduled to open one this month. The two stations are part …
California isn’t just a warm place to live, which is often the case even in winter, but it turns out the state is considered a “judicial hellhole.” The American Tort Reform Foundation issued its annual “Judicial Hellholes” report as 2013 …
Equity Risk Partners named four insurance industry executives to its team in California, while also establishing the firm’s physical presence in Southern California. Equity’s new executive hires are Doug Akerson, Michael Cardenas, Gil Goetz and Rob Jevens. Akerson joins as …
In 1988 California voters enacted Proposition 103, in one stroke changing the state’s law regulating insurance rates from one of the least restrictive to one of the most restrictive in the nation. In the 25 years since the passage of …
A jury awarded nearly $5.7 million to four servers who alleged they were fired from a Los Angeles restaurant because of their ages. Superior Court jurors near the end of 2013 awarded damages to the women, who range in age …
Months after Carol Justice was wrongly told her home needs flood insurance, the Cornelius resident is still paying up – even though a surveyor has since determined her house is not in the flood zone. Justice is one of hundreds …
The mother of a 16-year-old boy who was paralyzed after breaking two vertebrae during high school wrestling practice filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a Wyoming hospital that treated him. The suit from Melissa Plumley alleges Cheyenne Regional Medical Center …
Schemes Depend on Opportunity, Incentive, Rationalization It may come as a surprise to some that the typical fraudster in the workplace is not the bad-attitude ne’er-do-well that slinks off into the corner when faced with new responsibilities and additional tasks. …
Alan W. Ponder has joined the Houston office of insurance brokerage and financial services firm, Higginbotham, as assistant vice president of loss control. Ponder will apply his three-decade career in loss prevention to identify exposures and implement hazard control programs …
