June 2, 2014
Gov. Jerry Brown says the state is gearing up for California’s worst fire season ever. Brown told ABC’s “This Week” during an interview in May that the nearly dozen fires in San Diego County that destroyed 11 homes and caused …
June 2, 2014
When Thomas Jeffery visits states like California, he likes to take some time out to drive around and take a hard look at the conditions and the landscape. As a scientist, Jeffery feels this helps put first-person observations into his …
June 2, 2014
A California construction worker died from a fall after a railroad bridge he was cutting collapsed and pulled him down to a freeway, authorities said. Okesene Faasalele, 59, of Long Beach, was attached to the bridge over state Route 91 …
June 2, 2014
The New Mexico Court of Appeals has ruled that a worker’s employer and its insurer must pay for medical marijuana for treating the employee’s chronic pain from a job-related back injury. The court in May upheld a decision by a …
June 2, 2014
A jury has ruled that Snow King Resort in Wyoming was not at fault for a 7-year-old’s 2009 tumble from a ski lift. The final judgment stated that Glenn and Leya Oswald would recover nothing from the case, and the …
June 2, 2014
The wife of a man who was driving a Porsche sports car that crashed and killed actor Paul Walker is suing the automaker, alleging it designed a faulty vehicle. The wrongful death and negligence lawsuit was filed in mid-May in …
June 2, 2014
Delaware lawmakers are expected to act quickly on recommendations from a state task force aimed at lowering workers’ compensation insurance rates. The task force presented lawmakers a report on May 15 proposing that workers’ compensation medical costs to be trimmed …
June 2, 2014
XL Group has named Michele Sansone as president of its North America property insurance business and head of its global risk engineering division, XL GAPS. Reporting to Joseph Tocco, chief executive of XL Insurance’s North America property/casualty unit in New …
June 2, 2014
The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) has proposed new regulations to oversee private equity and investment firms’ acquisitions of insurance companies, especially acquisitions of annuity companies, in the state. DFS said the proposal to enshrine enhanced policyholder protection …
June 2, 2014
Employers in Virginia who fail to provide workers’ compensation insurance for their employees will be assessed, beginning July, a civil penalty of up to $250 per day for each day of noncompliance, subject to a maximum penalty of $50,000, plus …