Despite safety concerns, a recreational ax-throwing venue in Salt Lake City, Utah has been approved for a license to serve beer. The state liquor commission approved Social Axe Throwing’s request for a recreational beer license. The business asserted that it’s …
A federal judge ruled that women accusing Goldman Sachs Group Inc. of discriminating against them in pay, promotions and performance reviews may pursue their claims as a group in a class-action lawsuit. The decision late Friday afternoon by U.S. District …
State Farm recently started a spring storm campaign to educate consumers on hail damage. The insurer collected its homeowners’ claims data for hail damage based on total paid losses for 2017. That number totaled more than $3 billion nationwide. Using …
Woodruff-Sawyer has named Tim Matthews Honolulu office as vice president in risk control of its risk solution partners operation. Matthews will work with clients to apply risk management techniques and conduct loss control training programs. He will also assist in …
Another lawsuit has been filed in the aftermath of a pedestrian bridge collapse near a Florida university campus. The Miami Herald reports that a 19-year-old who was a passenger in an SUV crushed by a slab of concrete filed a …
West Virginia’s governor has signed legislation to limit opioid prescriptions that doctors can prescribe to treat acute pain. Gov. Jim Justice signed the bill last week that would limit such prescriptions to supplies lasting three, four or seven days, depending …
Atlanta’s top officials holed up in their offices on Saturday as they worked to restore critical systems knocked out by a nine-day-old cyber attack that plunged the Southeastern U.S. metropolis into technological chaos and forced some city workers to revert …
The Lloyd’s market’s pre-tax loss of £2 billion (US$2.8 billion) in 2017 was partly due to hurricanes and wildfires in the third and fourth quarters. But these losses were exacerbated by the continued deterioration in its attritional, or non-catastrophe losses …
There will soon, within a few decades, be an important demographic turning point in U.S. history. By 2035, there will be 78.0 million people 65 years and older compared to 76.4 million under the age of 18, according to the …
Fully licensed physicians are not the only medical professionals offering healthcare to a growing patient pool. Indeed, it would be unrealistic to expect all medical institutions to pay for physicians to fill every position in a hospital or clinic. This …
