E-cigarette maker Juul Labs Inc. has agreed to pay $40 million to North Carolina to settle a lawsuit by the state accusing it of marketing its products to minors. The settlement, announced on Monday by North Carolina Attorney General Josh …
Missouri’s rivers are rising, and with heavy rain possible through most of the week, parts of the state are under flood warnings and flash flood watches. Minor flooding was already happening Monday at several points on the Missouri River. Damage …
The Rhode Island Senate approved legalizing recreational marijuana use for adults, marking the first time either chamber of the state Legislature has voted on a bill to legalize cannabis. The proposal was introduced by longtime proponent Senator Joshua Miller, a …
Spurred by recent hurricanes and a rare winter storm that demonstrated the frailty of Louisiana’s public water supply, lawmakers have set their attention on improving the state’s troubled water systems. Legislators created a new grading metric for community water systems, …
Royal Caribbean, which has restarted its cruises, said it is requiring that unvaccinated guests age 12 and older sailing from Florida homeports provide proof of travel insurance to cover any quarantine, evacuation and medical expenses related to COVID-19. The insurance …
The risk of wildfires is growing with more warm, dry weather in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. The fire danger in Yellowstone is rated as “high” and in Grand Teton it’s “very high.” The scale tops out with “extreme” …
The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has released its latest report on workers’ comp losses and expenses for 2020. Key findings in the report, 2020 California Workers’ Compensation Losses and Expenses include: Medical losses paid in 2020 were …
Panelists convened by the Insurance Information Institute and ResilientH20 Partners agreed that resilience is building due to technological advances and greater awareness about how wildfires spread. In the latest installment of the Triple-I’s National Town Hall series, a risk modeler, …
In 2020 alone, more than 10.3 million acres were burned by wildfires across the United States, a level three times higher than the 10-year average from 1990 to 2000 10. Between fire suppression costs, direct and indirect costs, wildfires in …
Search-and-rescue teams pulled two more bodies from the concrete and steel rubble of a partially collapsed Florida condominium tower on Monday, bringing the death toll to 11 with 150 people still listed as missing four days after the disaster. Pouring …
