Monthly Archives: <span>December 2020</span>

AmWINS Program Underwriters Announces New Carrier for Long-Term Care Facilities Program

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (December 2, 2020) – AmWINS Program Underwriters (“APU”) today announced a new carrier partnership to provide insurance solutions for APU’s Long-Term Care Facilities program, effective January 1, 2021. Rated “A-” (Excellent) by A.M. Best, financial size XI, the …

Application Process for Georgia Medical Marijuana Producers Now Open

Georgia has opened the application process for businesses that want to manufacture cannabis oil for medical use in the state. The General Assembly legalized the treatment for a limited number of conditions five years ago, and the Georgia Access to …

Mississippi Woman Awarded $2.6M in Med Mal Suit Over Child’s Brain Injuries

A jury in Mississippi has returned a $2.6 million verdict to a woman who sued a doctor saying his inaction caused her child to have brain injuries. Court records show that a Rankin County Circuit Court jury awarded the money …

Trumps Want Court to Approve Arbitration for Marketing Fraud Lawsuit

A lawyer for Donald Trump on Tuesday urged a federal appeals court to halt a lawsuit accusing the U.S. president of exploiting his family name to promote a marketing scam targeting poor and working-class people. The lawyer, Thomas McCarthy, told …

Health Workers, Nursing Homes Should Get First COVID Vaccines, Says CDC

A panel of advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday voted 13 to 1 to recommend that healthcare workers and residents of long-term care facilities should be first in line to receive the first …

Supreme Court Justices Tackle Company Liability for Human Rights Abuses

U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared wary of barring lawsuits against American companies over alleged human rights abuses abroad but signaled they could toss out a case accusing Cargill Inc. and a Nestle SA subsidiary of knowingly helping to …

Louisiana Court: ‘Collectibility’ Can’t Be Used to Limit Legal Malpractice Damage Amounts

Are a plaintiff’s damages in a legal malpractice case limited to the amount they could have collected in a judgement in the underlying lawsuit that an attorney was found to have mishandled? The Louisiana Supreme Court has said ‘no’ in …

TWFG Insurance Acquires Penguin Insurance Services in California

TWFG Insurance has acquired Penguin Insurance Services in Milpitas, Calif. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Penguin is a network of independent brokers, which supports brokers throughout California, Colorado, Nevada, Texas, Washington and Arizona. TWFG Insurance, or The Woodlands …

Closing Georgia Coal Ash Ponds Expected To Take 15 Years

The dewatering and closure of remaining coal ash ponds at a Georgia Power Co. plant in northwest Georgia will take 15 years to complete. That’s what the unit of Atlanta-based Southern Co. told local leaders earlier this month during a …

Louisiana Deputy Sues Ex-Judge Over Racial Slurs in Text Messages

A Black Louisiana sheriff’s deputy has sued a white former judge, saying a racial slur in her private text messages defamed him and has hurt his ability to do his job since being made public. Assumption Parish Deputy Erick Taylor …