March 13, 2015
The Arizona House has approved an overhaul of regulations for ridesharing companies like Uber and Lyft. Republican Rep. Karen Fann unveiled details of a deal she’s negotiated between taxi firms, ride-hailing companies and insurers on Wednesday. The House then voted …
March 13, 2015
Goods are being unloaded and commerce traded along the Houston Ship Channel, even though part of the waterway remained closed on March 11 amid cleanup efforts following a collision that spilled a flammable chemical. About a 4-mile to 8-mile stretch …
March 13, 2015
Jurors will have an opportunity to pose their own questions today to the ex-partner who filed a sexual discrimination case against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which could reveal their impressions in the third week of trial. Ellen Pao has …
March 13, 2015
A deadly oil well explosion in Texas’ Permian Basin this week offers a cautionary note of the industry’s challenges as companies cut costs during a market downturn. Even as deaths in the industry have climbed much less than the breakneck …
March 13, 2015
A northern Indiana man faces theft charges for allegedly stealing more than $612,000 from an insurance settlement awarded to an injured child. Fifty-three-year-old Clark W. Holesinger pleaded not guilty to two felony theft charges ahead of his April 22 trial …
March 13, 2015
Specialty insurance underwriter HCC Specialty has formed a strategic alliance with Maryland-based Weather Analytics, a provider of precision climate, and weather data and analytics. Through this strategic alliance, HCC Specialty will have access to historical and real-time global hourly data …
March 13, 2015
General Motors Co. settled a lawsuit over the death of a 29-year-old woman that helped trigger the recall of 2.59 million cars with faulty ignition switches, lawyers for her family said. Brooke Melton, 29, died in a March 2010 crash …
March 13, 2015
Insurance broker Lockton hired Michael Appaneal as vice president in the Philadelphia office.
March 13, 2015
North Carolina environmental officials are fining Duke Energy $25 million over pollution that has been seeping into groundwater for years from a pair of coal ash pits at a retired power plant. The state Department of Environment and Natural Resources …
March 13, 2015
Viacom Inc agreed to pay $7.21 million to settle a class-action lawsuit by thousands of former interns who said the owner of Comedy Central, MTV and Nickelodeon did not pay them, despite their having done work similar to paid employees. …