December 2, 2020
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 …
December 2, 2020
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 …
December 2, 2020
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 …
December 2, 2020
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 …
December 2, 2020
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 …
December 2, 2020
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 …
December 1, 2020
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 …
December 1, 2020
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 …
December 1, 2020
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 …
December 1, 2020
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 …