September 16, 2019
The parents of a Georgia Tech student killed by a campus police officer two years ago have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the school, the university system and the officer. Authorities have said university police officer Tyler Beck fatally …
September 16, 2019
Federal employment officials have sued a car dealership in Norman, Oklahoma, saying the company unlawfully refused to hire a sales job candidate because she was female. In the lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said that in 2017 …
September 16, 2019
Florida is cracking down to ensure school districts, state colleges and state universities are protecting students’ Social Security numbers. In the past two years, state auditors have found that at least one-third of education employees who had access to student …
September 16, 2019
The Internal Revenue Service said it is mailing a time-limited settlement offer for certain taxpayers under audit who participated in what the IRS calls “abusive micro-captive insurance” transactions. The IRS has been warning about these micro-captives for several years and …
September 16, 2019
Four more people who received knee-replacement surgery at the Mizzou BioJoint Center say in lawsuits that their surgeries failed. Including the newly filed lawsuits, 17 people have sued the center at University of Missouri Health Care over their procedures. The …
September 16, 2019
The Texas Department of Insurance has issued a bulletin providing guidance on House Bill 259, passed during the 2019 legislative session, that prohibits insurers from delivering, issuing for delivery, or renewing named driver policies on or after Jan. 1, 2020. …
September 16, 2019
The U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said that a Chicago-based futures brokerage will pay a total of $1.5 million for letting cyber criminals breach the firm’s email systems and withdraw $1 million from a customer’s account. Phillip Capital Inc. …
September 16, 2019
Dave Kaufman, CEO of Columbus, Ohio-based Encova Insurance, is retiring effective Dec. 31, 2019. He has been with the company for 33 years. TJ Obrokta Jr., president and chief operating officer, has been named as Kaufman’s successor and will serve …
September 16, 2019
Midlands Management Corp. has appointed Jennie Reed to the expanded role of Brokerage and Binding Unit team leader in Dallas. With more than 20 years in the industry, Reed began her career as a commercial account manager at an independent …
September 16, 2019
The Santa Ana winds have returned to California, a signal to the state’s residents that the wildfire season has begun in earnest. The winds are created by high pressure over Nevada’s Great Basin as cool weather starts to arrive in …